kyle.ma83
2009-Aug-30 06:36 UTC
[Xen-devel] failed in debugging Xen hypervisor with gdb stub of xen
Hi,everyone I recently want to debug Xen, and I just follow the xen-3.2/docs/misc/crashdb.txt. I use two machines (one linux host and one xen target)and can get the xen booting message with serial to a remote linux host,I set debug=y in Config.mk and set crash_debug=y in xen/Rules.mk when make install xen and arrange to pass gdb=com1 as a hypervisor command line argument, my grub is as followed: title xen-3.2.0 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/xen-3.2.0.gz hap com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga gdb=com1 sync_console module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=/dev/sda1 ro xencons=ttyS0 module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen savedefault I get the output infomation of Xen and Domain0, but the crashdb.txt says give the escape character (^A by default) three times to talk to Xen (Xen prints `(XEN) *** Serial input -> Xen...''), so I follow the instrucions. When I press ctrl-A three times as soon as I see: (XEN) ********************************************** (XEN) ******* WARNING: CONSOLE OUTPUT IS SYNCHRONOUS (XEN) ******* This option is intended to aid debugging of Xen by ensuring (XEN) ******* that all output is synchronously delivered on the serial line. (XEN) ******* However it can introduce SIGNIFICANT latencies and affect (XEN) ******* timekeeping. It is NOT recommended for production use! (XEN) ********************************************** (XEN) 3... 2... 1... (XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console. (XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type ''CTRL-a'' three times to switch input to Xen) (XEN) unpasue dom0 (XEN) Freed 92kB init memory. but nothing happened, there is no infomation like "waiting for GDB attached...." or something else, and at last get the "login as: " info , did I miss something or what should I do? Could anyone give some more details and suggestions about it or how to debug Xen ? I ''d appreciated it much. Thanks a lot. 2009-08-30 Kyle Ma _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Caz Yokoyama
2009-Aug-30 12:40 UTC
RE: [Xen-devel] failed in debugging Xen hypervisor with gdb stub of xen
Hello Kyle, Do you have to use xen-3.2.0? Are you able to use xen-unstable? A couple of weeks ago, xen-unstable is able to accept break point, step and continue command. If you can use xen-unstable, I can guide you to set up for debugging Xen include those commands. -caz _____ From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of kyle.ma83 Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 11:36 PM To: xen-devel Subject: [Xen-devel] failed in debugging Xen hypervisor with gdb stub of xen Hi,everyone I recently want to debug Xen, and I just follow the xen-3.2/docs/misc/crashdb.txt. I use two machines (one linux host and one xen target)and can get the xen booting message with serial to a remote linux host,I set debug=y in Config.mk and set crash_debug=y in xen/Rules.mk when make install xen and arrange to pass gdb=com1 as a hypervisor command line argument, my grub is as followed: title xen-3.2.0 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/xen-3.2.0.gz hap com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga gdb=com1 sync_console module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=/dev/sda1 ro xencons=ttyS0 module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen savedefault I get the output infomation of Xen and Domain0, but the crashdb.txt says give the escape character (^A by default) three times to talk to Xen (Xen prints `(XEN) *** Serial input -> Xen...''), so I follow the instrucions. When I press ctrl-A three times as soon as I see: (XEN) ********************************************** (XEN) ******* WARNING: CONSOLE OUTPUT IS SYNCHRONOUS (XEN) ******* This option is intended to aid debugging of Xen by ensuring (XEN) ******* that all output is synchronously delivered on the serial line. (XEN) ******* However it can introduce SIGNIFICANT latencies and affect (XEN) ******* timekeeping. It is NOT recommended for production use! (XEN) ********************************************** (XEN) 3... 2... 1... (XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console. (XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type ''CTRL-a'' three times to switch input to Xen) (XEN) unpasue dom0 (XEN) Freed 92kB init memory. but nothing happened, there is no infomation like "waiting for GDB attached...." or something else, and at last get the "login as: " info , did I miss something or what should I do? Could anyone give some more details and suggestions about it or how to debug Xen ? I ''d appreciated it much. Thanks a lot. 2009-08-30 _____ Kyle Ma _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Caz Yokoyama
2009-Aug-30 14:05 UTC
RE: RE: [Xen-devel] failed in debugging Xen hypervisor with gdb stub of xen
Hello Kyle, No, I don’t think the debugging process is no so much different on 3.2.0 and unstable. However, I have never installed 3.2.0. I installed 3.4.1 and unstable which is 3.5. Therefore, I can’t say something sure for 3.2.0. Are you able to install 3.4.1 to know how to set up gdb and xen? -caz _____ From: kyle.ma83 [mailto:kyle.ma83@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:29 AM To: Caz Yokoyama Subject: Re: RE: [Xen-devel] failed in debugging Xen hypervisor with gdb stub of xen Thanks for your reply.Caz . I modified Xen based on xen-3.2.0, so I think I could not change into unstable. Is the debugging process very different between 3.2.0 and unstable? Could you please show me the details about the debugging method of unstable tree ? I am really confused after woking so long and much on the debugging. ): Thanks a lot. 2009-08-30 _____ kyle.ma83 _____ 发件人： Caz Yokoyama 发送时间： 2009-08-30 20:40:09 收件人： ''kyle.ma83'' 抄送： ''xen-devel'' 主题： RE: [Xen-devel] failed in debugging Xen hypervisor with gdb stub of xen Hello Kyle, Do you have to use xen-3.2.0? Are you able to use xen-unstable? A couple of weeks ago, xen-unstable is able to accept break point, step and continue command. If you can use xen-unstable, I can guide you to set up for debugging Xen include those commands. -caz _____ From: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists. xensource.com] On Behalf Of kyle.ma83 Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 11:36 PM To: xen-devel Subject: [Xen-devel] failed in debugging Xen hypervisor with gdb stub of xen Hi,everyone I recently want to debug Xen, and I just follow the xen-3.2/docs/misc/crashdb.txt. I use two machines (one linux host and one xen target)and can get the xen booting message with serial to a remote linux host,I set debug=y in Config.mk and set crash_debug=y in xen/Rules.mk when make install xen and arrange to pass gdb=com1 as a hypervisor command line argument, my grub is as followed: title xen-3.2.0 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/xen-3.2.0.gz hap com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga gdb=com1 sync_console module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=/dev/sda1 ro xencons=ttyS0 module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18.8-xen savedefault I get the output infomation of Xen and Domain0, but the crashdb.txt says give the escape character (^A by default) three times to talk to Xen (Xen prints `(XEN) *** Serial input -> Xen...''), so I follow the instrucions. When I press ctrl-A three times as soon as I see: (XEN) ********************************************** (XEN) ******* WARNING: CONSOLE OUTPUT IS SYNCHRONOUS (XEN) ******* This option is intended to aid debugging of Xen by ensuring (XEN) ******* that all output is synchronously delivered on the serial line. (XEN) ******* However it can introduce SIGNIFICANT latencies and affect (XEN) ******* timekeeping. It is NOT recommended for production use! (XEN) ********************************************** (XEN) 3... 2... 1... (XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console. (XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type ''CTRL-a'' three times to switch input to Xen) (XEN) unpasue dom0 (XEN) Freed 92kB init memory. but nothing happened, there is no infomation like "waiting for GDB attached...." or something else, and at last get the "login as: " info , did I miss something or what should I do? Could anyone give some more details and suggestions about it or how to debug Xen ? I ''d appreciated it much. Thanks a lot. 2009-08-30 _____ Kyle Ma _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel