Re: [PATCH 0/3] gdbstub: add support for switchable endianness

[Changbin Du]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 05:21:07PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 8/23/21 4:20 PM, Changbin Du wrote:
> > To resolve the issue to debug switchable targets, this serias introduces
> > basic infrastructure for gdbstub and enable support for ARM and RISC-V
> > targets.
> > 
> > For example, now there is no problem to debug an big-enadian aarch64 target
> > on x86 host.
> > 
> >   $ qemu-system-aarch64 -gdb tcp::1234,endianness=big ...
> 
> I don't understand why you need all that.
> Maybe you aren't using gdb-multiarch?
>
Nope, my gdb support all architectures.

> You can install it or start it via QEMU Debian Docker image:
> 
> $ docker run -it --rm -v /tmp:/tmp -u $UID --network=host \
>   registry.gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/qemu/debian10 \
>   gdb-multiarch -q \
>     --ex 'set architecture aarch64' \
>     --ex 'set endian big'
> The target architecture is assumed to be aarch64
> The target is assumed to be big endian
> (gdb) target remote 172.17.0.1:1234
> (gdb)
>
The gdb has no problem to read endianness and arch info from elf. The problem
is how qemu gdbstub handles the byte order it received.

Now let's try to debug a big-enadian aarch64 linux kernel.

1) start qemu with '-gdb tcp::1234'

$ gdb-multiarch vmlinux
(gdb) target remote :1234
Remote debugging using :1234
0x0000004000000000 in ?? ()
=> 0x0000004000000000:  Cannot access memory at address 0x4000000000
(gdb) ni
Cannot access memory at address 0x4000000000
(gdb) show architecture 
The target architecture is set to "auto" (currently "aarch64").
(gdb) show endian 
The target endianness is set automatically (currently big endian).

You see it an't work, not to mention adding breakpoints.

2) start qemu with '-gdb tcp::1234,endianness=big'

$ gdb-multiarch vmlinux
(gdb) target remote :1234
Remote debugging using :1234
0x0000000040000000 in ?? ()
=> 0x0000000040000000:  c0 00 00 58     ldr     x0, 0x40000018
(gdb) ni
0x0000000040000004 in ?? ()
=> 0x0000000040000004:  e1 03 1f aa     mov     x1, xzr
(gdb) b start_kernel
Breakpoint 1 at 0xffff800011130ee8 (2 locations)
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Thread 1 hit Breakpoint 1, 0xffff800011130ee8 in start_kernel ()
=> 0xffff800011130ee8 <start_kernel+0>: 5f 24 03 d5     bti     c
(gdb) bt
#0  0xffff800011130ee8 in start_kernel ()
#1  0xffff8000111303c8 in __primary_switched () at arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:467
Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)

okay, now it works fine.

-- 
Cheers,
Changbin Du