From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"Tim (Xen.org)" <tim@xen.org>,
Mohamad Rezaei <mmrezaie@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to debug xen itself?
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:28:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1324988881.13909.3.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111227115051.GJ12984@reaktio.net>
On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 11:50 +0000, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:00:32AM +0000, Tim Deegan wrote:
> > At 12:14 +0330 on 27 Dec (1324988042), Mohamad Rezaei wrote:
> > > On 12/25/2011 03:49 PM, Mohamad Rezaei wrote:
> > > > hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to debug xen hypervisor through gdb, and its kgdb. I have
> > > > compiled xen with these options: --> make debug=y optimize=0
> > > > crash_debug=y CMDLINE="console=com1 gdb=com1 earlygdb=y" -j8
> > > >
> > > > I was expecting xen to stop, and wait for my gdb connection through
> > > > serial port, but it boots up flawlessly. I am not sure what is my
> > > > problem. Should I do something other than that.
> > > >
> > > > I am doing this because I want to use debugger to get better view of xen
> > > > internals.
> > > >
> > > Can someone just let me know if I am doing something wrong?
> >
> > You asked your question on Christmas Day - most people in Europe and the
> > USA are on holiday, so you shouldn't expect an answer to your question.
> >
> > I don't use the gdb debugger so I can't help you; I don't think many
> > people do, so you may en up debugging the debugger yourself.
> >
>
> Some google-hits:
>
> "[Xen-devel] Debugging XEN Hypervisor":
> http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-10/msg00328.html
>
> "[Xen-devel] Debugging XEN Hypervisor":
> http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-09/msg01064.html
>
> "[Xen-devel] kdb does not support XEN?":
> http://old-list-archives.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-12/msg01519.html
>
>
> Hopefully those help..
As might http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/misc/crashdb.txt.
Mohamad -- if you figure this out please consider updating the above
document by posting a patch against xen-unstable.hg
docs/misc/crashdb.txt or perhaps by creating a wiki page.
Ian.
>
> -- Pasi
>
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-25 12:19 how to debug xen itself? Mohamad Rezaei
2011-12-27 8:44 ` Mohamad Rezaei
2011-12-27 11:00 ` Tim Deegan
2011-12-27 11:50 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-12-27 12:28 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
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