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Re: [XenPPC] [RFC] GDB "O" packets

To: Tony Breeds <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [XenPPC] [RFC] GDB "O" packets
From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:38:08 -0500
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On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 17:13 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> Hello All,
>       When GDB is atatched to the serial console you loose the output
> from printk()'s.  Below is a quick patch that uses GDBs "O" packet to
> pass this data out to GDB.

> diff -r f8233165fb80 xen/drivers/char/console.c
> --- a/xen/drivers/char/console.c      Sun Aug 27 16:12:00 2006 -0400
> +++ b/xen/drivers/char/console.c      Mon Aug 28 17:07:02 2006 +1000
> @@ -258,6 +260,8 @@ static inline void __putstr(const char *
>      int c;
>  
>      serial_puts(sercon_handle, str);
> +    /* FIXME: Make sure this builds without debug=y */
> +    gdb_puts(str);
>  
>      while ( (c = *str++) != '\0' )
>      {

You probably want to avoid serial_puts() if GDB is attached, no?
Otherwise, you'll be sending "garbage" (i.e. non-packet data) down the
serial line to GDB.

Rather than including gdbstub.h here, you might do something like this:
        if (in_debugger())
                debug_puts(sercon_handle, str);
        else
                serial_puts(sercon_handle, str);

In fact, it might be worth adding another flag to the serial handles
(see e.g. SERHND_COOKED), and intercepting inside serial_puts(). The
only problem there is that serial_putc() would bypass this, but as you
can see practically speaking there aren't any callers.

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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