Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] gdbstub: Allow late attachment

[Alex Bennée]

Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com> writes:

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>
> Hi,
>
> This series adds the ability to attach GDB to a running qemu-user
> instance. This is useful for debugging multi-process apps.
>
> Patches 1 and 2 implement a small related feature: the ability to
> create individual UNIX sockets for each child process.
>
> Patches 3-5 add the required infrastructure. In particular, we need
> to reserve a host signal for waking up threads, as discussed in [1].
> By the way, the problem with atomicity of checking for pending signals
> and invoking syscalls that I'm describing in that thread seems to
> have already been solved by the safe_syscall infrastructure, so the
> changes are fairly simple.
>
> Patch 6 is the implementation, patch 7 is a documentation update,
> patch 8 is a test. I tested this series on Linux and only
> compile-tested on the BSDs.
>
> If this series is accepted, I will rebase the all-stop series on top
> of it.

Queued to gdbstub/next, thanks.

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro