Re: [Qemu-devel] How to capture guest %rip from a qemu process without monitor?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:49:20AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-09-30 09:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 
> > I've finally managed to reproduce a very infrequent kernel boot hang
> > by forcing TCG (so it runs slower, bug seems to be timing sensitive)
> > and running a boot test in a loop thousands of times.
> > 
> > I'd like to find out where in the guest kernel this is looping.
> > 
> > Unfortunately I don't have access to the monitor so "info registers"
> > won't work, but I can attach to the qemu process with gdb.
> > 
> > Which TCG struct contains %rip, other registers?  What other useful
> > information can be captured using only gdb?
> 
> Print first_cpu->eip, maybe also first_cpu->segs[1] to dump the CS
> segment cache (relevant while in real mode).

Perfect thanks!

*first_cpu contains a wealth of info.

Rich.

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