cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb kgdb.h kld.c trgt.c

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 29 January 2008 06:44:34 pm John Baldwin wrote:
> jhb         2008-01-29 23:44:34 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     gnu/usr.bin/gdb/kgdb kgdb.h kld.c trgt.c 
>   Log:
>   - Rework the kld support to hook into GDB's shared library support.
>     kgdb(8) now treats kld's as shared libraries relative to the kernel
>     "binary".  Thus, you can use 'info sharedlibrary' to list the kld's
>     along with 'sharedlibrary' and 'nosharedlibrary' to manage symbol
>     loading and unloading.  Note that there isn't an easy way to force GDB
>     to use a specific path for a shared library.  However, you can use
>     'nosharedlibrary' to unload all the klds and then use 'sharedlibrary'
>     to load specific klds where it gets the kld correct and use
>     'add-kld' for the kld's where the default open behavior doesn't work.
>     klds opened via 'sharedlibrary' (and during startup) do have their
>     sections listed in 'info files'.
>   - Change the 'add-kld' command to use filename completion to complete its
>     argument.

So now what it looks like:

> sudo ./kgdb -q
[GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: 
Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko...Reading symbols 
from /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko.symbols...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko
Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/logo_saver.ko...Reading symbols 
from /boot/kernel/logo_saver.ko.symbols...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/logo_saver.ko
#0  sched_switch (td=0xc08fdb90, newtd=Variable "newtd" is not available.
) at /usr/src/sys/kern/sched_ule.c:1905
1905                    cpuid = PCPU_GET(cpuid);
(kgdb) info sharedlibrary
From        To          Syms Read   Shared Object Library
0xc3e875a0  0xc3e8763b  Yes         /boot/kernel/iwi_bss.ko
0xc41077a0  0xc4107c28  Yes         /boot/kernel/logo_saver.ko

And for a crash dump:

> sudo ./kgdb -q -c /usr/crash/vmcore.10 /boot/kernel/kernel
[GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: 
Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
Reading symbols from /boot/modules/crash.ko...Reading symbols 
from /boot/modules/crash.ko.symbols...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /boot/modules/crash.ko
#0  doadump () at pcpu.h:195
195     pcpu.h: No such file or directory.
        in pcpu.h
(kgdb) info sharedlibrary
From        To          Syms Read   Shared Object Library
0xc3d416f0  0xc3d4364e  Yes         /boot/modules/crash.ko
(kgdb) info files
Symbols from "/boot/kernel/kernel".
kernel core files:
        `/boot/kernel/kernel', file type elf32-i386-freebsd.
        0xc04000d4 - 0xc04000e1 is .interp
        0xc04000e4 - 0xc0410330 is .hash
        0xc0410330 - 0xc0430b30 is .dynsym
        0xc0430b30 - 0xc0451348 is .dynstr
        0xc0451350 - 0xc0826880 is .text
        0xc0826880 - 0xc084207c is .rodata
        0xc084207c - 0xc08980ec is .rodata.str1.1
        0xc08980ec - 0xc0899204 is set_sysctl_set
        0xc0899204 - 0xc0899e20 is set_sysinit_set
        0xc0899e20 - 0xc089a2ac is set_sysuninit_set
        0xc089a2ac - 0xc089a7ec is set_modmetadata_set
...
        0xc089a950 - 0xc089a96c is set_scrndr_set
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
        0xc089b980 - 0xc08e702a is .data
        0xc08e702c - 0xc08e7038 is .got
        0xc08e7038 - 0xc08e70a0 is .dynamic
        0xc08e70c0 - 0xc091691c is .bss
        0xc3d3f094 - 0xc3d3f318 is .hash in /boot/modules/crash.ko
        0xc3d3f318 - 0xc3d3f8d8 is .dynsym in /boot/modules/crash.ko
        0xc3d3f8d8 - 0xc3d3fc7e is .dynstr in /boot/modules/crash.ko
        0xc3d3fc80 - 0xc3d416f0 is .rel.dyn in /boot/modules/crash.ko
        0xc3d416f0 - 0xc3d4364e is .text in /boot/modules/crash.ko
        0xc3d4364e - 0xc3d43f4e is .rodata in /boot/modules/crash.ko
...

-- 
John Baldwin