Problems with bhyve's kgdb support and loadable modules
Peter Grehan
grehan at freebsd.org
Sun May 4 03:01:12 UTC 2014
Hi Kurt,
> Is there any reasonable tutorial for using kgdb with the
> bvmdebug kernel option?
Not really (https://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe/gdb)
In any event, 9.2 doesn't have bvmdebug, though it would be a simple
backport. It's also not strictly required - you can use the serial port
same as on h/w; see below.
> A couple of folks I know have run into issues trying to
> debug a FreeBSD stable/9 kernel from their bhyve
> hosting machine (running stable/10).
>
> In particular, the loadable modules that are in use in
> the stable/9 kernel are being "troublesome" to get to
> the point where source-level debugging actually works.
>
> Even a pointer to a couple of "worked" examples might be
> useful.
>
> I've read this:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/papers/bsdcan/2008/article/node4.html
> but not all the techniques in there appear to work properly.
I tried to repro this with some success from a host running CURRENT.
Firstly, I installed a 9.2 VM, with source. I edited GENERIC and added
options DDB and GDB, and reinstalled the kernel.
The disk was then copied, and mdconfig'd/mounted on the host to
provide access to the just-buit 9.2 kernel syms and sources.
com2 was set up as a debug port by dropping to the bhyveload prompt and
hint.uart.1.flags="0x80"
(this could also have been done in the guest's /boot/loader.conf)
com2 was then set up in the bhyve command line to point to an nmdm device
-l com2,/dev/nmdm0A
The guest probed uart1 as a debug port:
uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x80 on acpi0
ioapic0: routing intpin 3 (ISA IRQ 3) to lapic 0 vector 64
uart1: fast interrupt
uart1: debug port (9600,n,8,1)
After booting, I loaded the the tap device in the guest to provide a
kld for kgdb to examine:
root at fbsd9-2:~ # kldload if_tap
root at fbsd9-2:~ # kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 3 0xffffffff80200000 15f92d8 kernel
2 1 0xffffffff81a12000 59e9 if_tap.ko
Now time to try kgdb:
root at fbsd9-2:~ # sysctl debug.kdb.enter=1
debug.kdb.enter: 0KDB: enter: sysctl debug.kdb.enter
[ thread pid 577 tid 100054 ]
Stopped at kdb_enter+0x3b: movq $0,0xaf0362(%rip)
db> gdb
(ctrl-c will return control to ddb)
Switching to gdb back-end
Switching to gdb back-end
In another window, cd'd to the mounted copy of the 9.2 disk:
kgdb -r /dev/nmdm0B kernel.debug
...
This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...Switching to remote
protocol
kdb_enter (why=0xffffffff80fbf671 "sysctl", msg=0x80 <Address 0x80 out
of bounds>) at ../../../kern/subr_kdb.c:441
441 kdb_why = KDB_WHY_UNSET;
(kgdb)
After some experimentation, I found the way to get the correct symbols
for the kld was to manually specify it:
(kgdb) add-kld /mnt/boot/kernel/if_tap.ko
add symbol table from file "/mnt/boot/kernel/if_tap.ko.symbols" at
.text_addr = 0xffffffff81a12000
.rodata.str1.8_addr = 0xffffffff81a13b50
.rodata.str1.1_addr = 0xffffffff81a13ddb
set_sysinit_set_addr = 0xffffffff81a13f68
set_modmetadata_set_addr = 0xffffffff81a13f80
set_sysctl_set_addr = 0xffffffff81a13f90
set_sysuninit_set_addr = 0xffffffff81a13fc0
.data_addr = 0xffffffff81a13fe0
.bss_addr = 0xffffffff81a14620
(y or n) y
However, 'info sharedlibrary' didn't seem to reflect this:
(kgdb) info sharedlibrary
From To Syms Read Shared Object Library
0xffffffff81a12000 0xffffffff81a13c04 No
/boot/kernel/if_tap.ko.symbols
Might have been a bug there, since I was able to successfully set
breakpoints in if_tap routines and have them trigger.
I did have some trouble getting the source path set up correctly, but
never fully investigated that: seems like gdb is quite rich in that area
and it should be possible to get sorted.
later,
Peter.
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