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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 231980 21-Feb-2012 kib

MFC r230427:
Adopt to new layout of struct pcb.


# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 210778 02-Aug-2010 jkim

Give kgdb(1) a chance to take a look at FPU state.


# 178713 01-May-2008 jhb

- Change how the vmcore target maps FreeBSD thread IDs to GDB ptids. We
now only use the TID and ignore the PID and use pid_to_ptid() to build a
ptid treating the TID as a PID. The benefit of this is that the vmcore
target now uses the same scheme as GDB's remote targets. As a result,
the 'tid' command now works for remote targets (however, it only accepts
TIDs and not addresses of 'struct thread' objects).
- Use gdb_thread_select() to do the actual thread switch for the 'tid' and
'proc' commands. This now gives the same UI feedback when switching
threads as the GDB 'thread' command rather than providing no visual
output at all.

MFC after: 1 week


# 178670 29-Apr-2008 jhb

Rework how kgdb manages kernel and vmcore files to be a bit more gdb-ish
so that kgdb can be used more like a normal gdb:
- Load the kernel via the standard 'exec' target and allow it to be changed
via the 'file' command.
- Instead of explicitly loading the kernel file as the mail symbol file
during startup, just pass it to gdb_main() as the executable file.
- Change the kld support (via shared libraries) to cache the address of
the linker_files and linker_kernel_file variables in addition to the
offsets of various members in 'struct linker_file'.
- When a new symbol file is loaded, recompute the addresses and offsets
used by the kld support code.
- When a new symbol file is loaded, recalculate the ofs_fix variable to
account for the different ways a trapframe can be passed to trap
frame handlers in i386. This is done by adding a MD
kgdb_trgt_new_objfile() hook that is empty on all but i386.
- Don't use the directory name of the kernel specified on the command
line to find kernel modules in the kld support code. Instead,
extract the filename of the current executable via exec_bfd. Now
the 'kernel' variable is private to main.c again.
- Make the 'add-kld' command explicitly fail if no executable is loaded.
- Make the support for vmcores a real core-dump target that opens the
kernel and vmcore on open and closes the kvm connection when closed, etc.
- The 'core' command can now be used to select a vmcore to use, either
a crash dump file or /dev/mem for live debugging.
- The 'detach' command can be used to detach from a vmcore w/o attaching
to a new one.
- kgdb no longer explicitly opens a core dump during startup and no longer
has to use an atexit() hook to close the kvm connection on shutdown.
- Symbols for kld's are automatically loaded anytime a core is opened.
Also, the unread portion of dmesg is dumped just as it was done on kgdb
startup previously.
- Don't require either a remote target or core dump if a kernel is specified.
You can now just run 'kgdb kernel' similar to running gdb on an executable
and later connect to a remote target or core dump.
- Use a more relaxed way to verify remote targets specified via -r.
Instead of explicitly allowing a few non-file target specifications,
just assume that if stat() on the arg and on "/dev/" + arg both fail
that is some non-file target and pass it to gdb.
- Don't use a custom interpreter. The existing kgdb_init() hook and the
target_new_objfile() hook give us sufficient hooks during startup to
setup kgdb-specific behavior now.
- Always add the 'proc', 'tid', and 'add-kld' commands on startup and not
just if we have a core dump. Currently the 'proc' and 'tid' commands do
not work for remote targets (I will fix at least 'tid' in the next round
of changes though). However, the 'add-kld' command works fine for
loading symbols for a kernel module on a remote target.
- Always setup the 'kld' shared library target operations instead of just
if we have a core dump. Although symbols for kernel modules are not
automatically loaded when connecting to a remote target, you can do
'info sharedlibrary' after connecting to the remote target and kgdb will
find all the modules. You can then use the 'sharedlibrary' command to
load symbols from the module files.
- Change kthr_init() to free the existing list of kthr objects before
generating a new one. This allows it to be invoked multiple times
w/o leaking memory.

MFC after: 1 week


# 171924 22-Aug-2007 jhb

NMIs now come from 'nmi_calltrap' rather than 'calltrap', so teach 'kgdb'
to treat the frame under 'nmi_calltrap' as a trapframe.

MFC after: 3 days
Approved by: re (bmah)


# 161555 23-Aug-2006 jhb

Remove special handling for PC == 0. With this, kgdb can now properly
unwind across a page fault due to a null function pointer. It does a
better job than ddb now in fact.

Reviewed by: marcel
MFC after: 3 days


# 150668 28-Sep-2005 peter

Unbreak - remove leftover reference to pcb_rflags.


# 149976 11-Sep-2005 marcel

Unwind across intrframes as well. While here, better handle bottom of
stack by claiming the frame when the IP is 0. It's a bit of a kluge,
but avoids screens full of bogus frames.

MFC after: 1 week


# 149957 10-Sep-2005 marcel

Unwind across trap frames. This adds most of the meat. The sniffer
just needs to be taught about all the other entry points and the
unwinder needs to be taught about the frame variation between them.

MFC after: 1 week


# 149954 10-Sep-2005 marcel

Add a kluge to allow kgdb(1) to inject its own frame sniffer in the
list of frame sniffers so that trapframes can be detected. The kluge
is needed because this version of gdb only supports appending a
sniffer to the list of sniffers and the moment kgdb gets a chance to
add its own frame sniffer, the target's default frame sniffer is
already in the list. Since the default frame sniffer claims any
frame thrown at it, kgdb's frame sniffer never gets to smell (a
process much akin to tasting, but with lesser chance of hurling :-)

This commit adds dummy frame sniffers that never claim a frame and
as such don't fix anything yet. However, we now have frame sniffers
and they are being called, so it's just a matter of adding meat to
the bones and we'll be able to properly unwind across trapframes.

MFC after: 1 week


# 142151 20-Feb-2005 kan

Attempt to make kgdb little more useful and easy to use. Properly initialize
it to recognise what ABI to use on amd64 (and possibly others) platform.
Display PID and process name as a part of the 'info threads' output, TIDs
alone are too confusing. Introduce new commmands 'tid <tid>' and 'proc <pid>'
to accompany gdb's default 'thread <thread num>' to make the task of switching
between different contexts easier.


# 132624 25-Jul-2004 marcel

Add the beginnings of kernel debugging support. the kgdb(1) tool
is basicly a shell on top of libgdb that knows about kernel threads,
kernel modules and kvm(3). As the word "beginnings" implies, not
all of the features have been implemented yet. The tool is useful
and I'd like feedback on the taken route.

The simplest way to debug a kernel core file is:
kgdb -n 0

This opens /var/crash/vmcore.0 with the corresponding kernel in
the object directory (kernel.debug is used if it exists).

Typical things that need to be added are:
o Auto loading of kernel modules,
o Handling of trapframes so that backtraces can be taken across
them,
o Some fancy commands to extract useful information out of a core
file,
o Various (probably many) other things.