Re: APIC interrupting me while stepping through a kernel with kgdb
- In reply to: Naman Sood : "Re: APIC interrupting me while stepping through a kernel with kgdb"
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Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 16:26:48 UTC
Okay, this seems to mostly work, but I am still getting timer interrupts sometimes. I'll post here if I can get that to be reproducible, but until then, I can live with this. Thanks! Naman. On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 4:33 PM Naman Sood <naman@freebsdfoundation.org> wrote: > > Oh. How convenient! I'm running 14.0-CURRENT, though I may have > delayed system updates long enough to not have this patch at the > moment. Let me get back to you after I run updates and retry - thanks! > > Naman. > > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 4:27 PM Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 03:34:56PM -0400, Naman Sood wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > I've been following this guide[1] to get kgdb to debug a FreeBSD guest > > > on bhyve - I have a WIP patch for pfsync that I want to debug. I'm at > > > the point where I can set breakpoints in if_pfsync.c and get them to > > > break when I hit them. However, when I step/next from there, control > > > always goes to the lapic_handle_timer(), which does its APIC timer > > > things, returns control to the line where I set the breakpoint... and > > > then immediately goes to the timer again, since presumably a timer > > > tick has happened between me pressing Return repeatedly. > > > > > > Is there a way to get around this? Either turn off the timer (doesn't > > > sound like a good idea?) or get kgdb to ignore it so I can debug the > > > rest of the kernel? Running skip at the timer code didn't seem to > > > help. > > > > Which revision of FreeBSD are you running? I believe this recent commit > > will address the problem you're describing, but you won't have it unless > > you're running the main branch: > > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=fefac543590d