Re: [PATCH v5 09/16] docs/devel/testing: add --gdb option to the debugging section of QEMU iotests

[Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy]

04.06.2021 12:17, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>   docs/devel/testing.rst | 11 +++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
> index 9d6a8f8636..11a0359218 100644
> --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
> +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
> @@ -229,6 +229,17 @@ Debugging a test case
>   The following options to the ``check`` script can be useful when debugging
>   a failing test:
>   
> +* ``--gdb`` wraps every QEMU invocation in a ``gdbserver``, which waits for a
> +  connection from a gdb client.  The options given to ``gdbserver`` (e.g. the
> +  address on which to listen for connections) are taken from the 
> ``$GDB_OPTIONS``
> +  environment variable.  By default (if ``$GDB_OPTIONS`` is empty), it listens 
> on
> +  ``localhost:12345``.
> +  It is possible to connect to it for example with
> +  ``gdb -iex "target remote $addr"``, where ``$addr`` is the address
> +  ``gdbserver`` listens on.
> +  If the ``-gdb`` option is not used, ``$GDB_OPTIONS`` is ignored,

Then, --gdb here too

> +  regardless on whether it is set or not.
> +
>   * ``-d`` (debug) just increases the logging verbosity, showing
>     for example the QMP commands and answers.
>   


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Best regards,
Vladimir