Re: [Xen-devel] State of gdbsx in xen-4.0-testing.hg and debugger documentation.

[Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for CC Konrad, I'm gazillions postings behind in catching up
xen-devel.

Bruce, you don't need to use the ext repo anymore as gdbsx is now
merged mainline. I should update the blog post.

To build a debug enabled xen image: make gdbsx=y  is all you need
to do. After booting with gdbsx enabled xen, you can run gdbsx in
dom0. See tools/debugger/gdbsx/README. 

Note, you don't need to do anything in tools/debugger/gdb and/or
gdbbuild.  tools/debugger/gdb (gdbbuild) is unlreated to gdbsx.

Perhaps, we should just remove tools/debugger/gdb if it's not being
maintained and no one is using it.

thanks,
Mukesh



On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:53:31 -0400
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:16:10PM -0700, Bruce Edge wrote:
> > Can one build a usable gdbsx from xen-4.0-testing.hg?
> 
> CC-ing the author - Mukesh.
> > 
> > Actually a more relevant is, is this still the preferred mechanism
> > for domU kernel debugging?
> > 
> > The documentation on building it is a bit out of date and
> > conflicting.
> > 
> > This post http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2009/10/21/debugging-on-xen/
> > States that one needs to use this repo:
> > http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/debuggers.hg
> > 
> > Which looks like hasn't been updated since 4.0 was released as it's
> > still referencing 4.0-rc
> > 
> > 0 %> hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/debuggers.hg
> > 
> > destination directory: debuggers.hg
> > requesting all changes
> > adding changesets
> > adding manifests
> > adding file changes
> > added 20375 changesets with 117688 changes to 11049 files (+1 heads)
> > updating working directory
> > .hgtags@809b20f066fb, line 39: tag '4.0.0-rc1' refers to unknown
> > node .hgtags@809b20f066fb, line 40: tag '4.0.0-rc2' refers to
> > unknown node .hgtags@809b20f066fb, line 41: tag '4.0.0-rc3' refers
> > to unknown node .hgtags@809b20f066fb, line 42: tag '4.0.0-rc4'
> > refers to unknown node .hgtags@809b20f066fb, line 43: tag
> > '4.0.0-rc5' refers to unknown node .hgtags@809b20f066fb, line 44:
> > tag '4.0.0-rc6' refers to unknown node 3164 files updated, 0 files
> > merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
> > 
> > This post: http://zhigang.org/wiki/XenDebugging#xend-debugging
> > refers to magically generated Oracle images with no information on
> > how they were created or what sources to use.
> > 
> > Other posts state that gdbsx has been integrated into
> > xen-unstable.hg. Does that mean all that's needed to build a debug
> > enabled xen image is:
> > 
> > (cd tools/debugger/gdb && ./gdbbuild ) ;
> > make kdb=y gdbsx=y && make dist
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > -Bruce
> 
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