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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/2] qemu-log: Interrupt the GDB session on guest-
From: |
Edgar E. Iglesias |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/2] qemu-log: Interrupt the GDB session on guest-errors |
Date: |
Wed, 22 May 2013 16:04:14 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:45:46AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 May 2013 11:38, <address@hidden> wrote:
> > From: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <address@hidden>
> > @@ -45,6 +46,25 @@ void qemu_log_mask(int mask, const char *fmt, ...)
> > vfprintf(qemu_logfile, fmt, ap);
> > }
> > va_end(ap);
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Break the GDB session (if connected) so that the user can inspect
> > the
> > + * guest state.
> > + *
> > + * TODO: Consider conditionalizing this on a cmdline option.
> > + */
>
> This is definitely way too intrusive to be unconditional -- it can
> happen really frequently (for instance Linux on OMAP3 will access
> a nonexistent register every time it takes an interrupt).
Ye, I figured this would be the case.
Maybe a qemu monitor flag controllable from the gdb client itself might be
the most useful, default off. Then one can turn the breaks on/off on
the fly while debugging.
monitor gdb_break_on_guest_errors or something like that.
Cheers,
Edgar