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SubjectRe: kgdb on EM64T
Wilkerson, Bryan P wrote:
>
> George Anzinger [mailto:george@mvista.com] wrote:
>
>>Well, I checked, it is "int $3". Why then the panic? If you try the
>>boot with kgdb (i.e. wait) and the do:
>>(gdb) disass gdb_interrupt
>>What do you find at +75?
>
>
> Below is the console from the session it is interesting that gdb is not
> able to access the memory. I let it continue and then ctrl-c broke it
> later in the boot cycle and tried disass again with the same result.
>
> Feel free to flog me if this is stupid but I have just one EM64T machine
> (test) and I'm using a regular P4 machine as dev. I build the test
> kernel on the EM64T machine and then copy the updated sources, object
> files, and images via NFS to the dev machine. I believe I read in the
> kgdb doc that it was possible to use to different architecture machines
> for test and dev although there wasn't any information about how to do
> it. This is probably the source of the OS/ABI warning. I can probably
> get the mothership to send me another EM64T machine if need be.

What you need is a cross development environment. Not having that, your
gdb is likely not aware of how to talk to the hardware you are using.
The cross develoment should cost a whole lot less than another machine.

George
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>
> vincent:/home/bwilkers/proj/linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1 # gdb vmlinux
> GNU gdb 6.3
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
> are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for
> details.
> This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...
> warning: A handler for the OS ABI "GNU/Linux" is not built into this
> configuration
> of GDB. Attempting to continue with the default i386:x86-64 settings.
>
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
>
> (gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0
> Remote debugging using /dev/ttyS0
> 0x80503b50 in ?? ()
> warning: no shared library support for this OS / ABI
> (gdb) disass gdb_interrupt
> Dump of assembler code for function gdb_interrupt:
> 0xffffffff80247009 <gdb_interrupt+0>: Cannot access memory at address
> 0x80247009
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.
> Bootdata ok (command line is root=/dev/sda2 kgdb console=kgdb)
> Linux version 2.6.13-rc4-mm1-perfmon-em64t (bwilkers@jules) (gcc version
> 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #43 SMP Sat Aug 27 15:56:14
> MDT 2005
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fe2f800 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 000000003fe2f800 - 000000003fe3f832 (ACPI NVS)
> BIOS-e820: 000000003ff10000 - 000000003ff30000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 000000003ff30000 - 000000003ff40000 (ACPI data)
> BIOS-e820: 000000003ff40000 - 000000003fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
> BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fed13000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000feda0000 (reserved)
> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
>
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