From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924ECC64EC4 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:36:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232633AbjCJOgP (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:36:15 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45122 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232528AbjCJOgM (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:36:12 -0500 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35199118BEF for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 06:35:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C20836192E for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:35:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CD6E8C433EF; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:35:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1678458957; bh=7Vqivv2NNq68gYaWBtIFdf0aST/QtLTFZOoh1fSAtwg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=m4Ac1oKqsYkY42LejcpwZ1MpisQH8eKoN3vaQ3nHc0nJrMuCu1wyiAy98rRe8udkS qAwU4sCll1XFzw8BHgIkpKOZUsaZgms6GeoUxgazKG+nHapHSrift8ylmKS/zjFguf wtorZS3vc7A20JVMgiath20CjpG6qMDFonzYYkJc= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Jakob Koschel , Jonathan Corbet , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.4 201/357] docs/scripts/gdb: add necessary make scripts_gdb step Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:38:10 +0100 Message-Id: <20230310133743.601591402@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.2 In-Reply-To: <20230310133733.973883071@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20230310133733.973883071@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Jakob Koschel [ Upstream commit 6b219431037bf98c9efd49716aea9b68440477a3 ] In order to debug the kernel successfully with gdb you need to run 'make scripts_gdb' nowadays. This was changed with the following commit: Commit 67274c083438340ad16c ("scripts/gdb: delay generation of gdb constants.py") In order to have a complete guide for beginners this remark should be added to the offial documentation. Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112-documentation-gdb-v2-1-292785c43dc9@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst index 19df79286f000..afe4bc206486c 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ Setup this mode. In this case, you should build the kernel with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE disabled if the architecture supports KASLR. +- Build the gdb scripts (required on kernels v5.1 and above):: + + make scripts_gdb + - Enable the gdb stub of QEMU/KVM, either - at VM startup time by appending "-s" to the QEMU command line -- 2.39.2