On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 09:29:17PM +0200, jjDaNiMoTh wrote: > On 20/09/17 at 11:20am, 慕冬亮 wrote: > > 2017-09-20 4:18 GMT-04:00 jjDaNiMoTh <[email protected]>: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > As the title says, any of you have successfully tried to debug Linux > > > 4.13 with QEMU? > > > I encountered this problem in my debian testing. Any "break" or > > "hbreak" point is not triggered > > even if I set breakpoint at "start_kernel". > [cut] > > So, after two weeks of a headache I took the courage to send an email > here, and after only 3 hours after the email (!!!) I found the cause of > the problem. > > Without being too long, the problem is KALSR. You have to disable it > disabling the kernel option "Randomize the address of the kernel image > (KASLR)", > inside Processor type and features. In this way, gdb can translate > all the symbols correctly (symbols <-> addresses). > > I really don't know how the developers test their code... because there > is no evidence for this.
Why do you think that it requires developers to use a debugger and qemu to test their code? I've never used a debugger on the kernel in all of my years of kernel development... Glad you found a solution and posted it. greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
