gdbstub: add reverse continue support in replay mode
authorPavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgaluk@ispras.ru>
Sat, 3 Oct 2020 17:13:49 +0000 (20:13 +0300)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tue, 6 Oct 2020 06:34:49 +0000 (08:34 +0200)
This patch adds support of the reverse continue operation for gdbstub.
Reverse continue finds the last breakpoint that would happen in normal
execution from the beginning to the current moment.
Implementation of the reverse continue replays the execution twice:
to find the breakpoints that were hit and to seek to the last breakpoint.
Reverse continue loads the previous snapshot and tries to find the breakpoint
since that moment. If there are no such breakpoints, it proceeds to
the earlier snapshot, and so on. When no breakpoints or watchpoints were
hit at all, execution stops at the beginning of the replay log.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgalyuk@ispras.ru>
Message-Id: <160174522930.12451.6994758004725016836.stgit@pasha-ThinkPad-X280>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
exec.c
gdbstub.c
include/sysemu/replay.h
replay/replay-debugging.c
softmmu/cpus.c
stubs/replay.c

diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index d8072668eaca326e1c37784b9df0f0758e05df3a..ec68f4a9ca504606b36ab2a79b74a9a500c61b8b 100644 (file)
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -2753,6 +2753,7 @@ void cpu_check_watchpoint(CPUState *cpu, vaddr addr, vaddr len,
                  * Don't process the watchpoints when we are
                  * in a reverse debugging operation.
                  */
+                replay_breakpoint();
                 return;
             }
             if (flags == BP_MEM_READ) {
index 79e8ccc0503cc8d14a3d7a1fef4e71b8e8fd256f..ac9227301803201ad373bf4250b3968324624781 100644 (file)
--- a/gdbstub.c
+++ b/gdbstub.c
@@ -1907,6 +1907,13 @@ static void handle_backward(GdbCmdContext *gdb_ctx, void *user_ctx)
                 put_packet("E14");
             }
             return;
+        case 'c':
+            if (replay_reverse_continue()) {
+                gdb_continue();
+            } else {
+                put_packet("E14");
+            }
+            return;
         }
     }
 
@@ -2161,7 +2168,8 @@ static void handle_query_supported(GdbCmdContext *gdb_ctx, void *user_ctx)
     }
 
     if (replay_mode == REPLAY_MODE_PLAY) {
-        g_string_append(gdbserver_state.str_buf, ";ReverseStep+");
+        g_string_append(gdbserver_state.str_buf,
+            ";ReverseStep+;ReverseContinue+");
     }
 
     if (gdb_ctx->num_params &&
index 90bbb5d825cc4e491eb1d37038411aa6dde5bcab..172b20c60c139861a76545c08c6d548493ebcbd0 100644 (file)
@@ -81,11 +81,19 @@ const char *replay_get_filename(void);
  * Returns true on success.
  */
 bool replay_reverse_step(void);
+/*
+ * Start searching the last breakpoint/watchpoint.
+ * Used by gdbstub for backwards debugging.
+ * Returns true if the process successfully started.
+ */
+bool replay_reverse_continue(void);
 /*
  * Returns true if replay module is processing
  * reverse_continue or reverse_step request
  */
 bool replay_running_debug(void);
+/* Called in reverse debugging mode to collect breakpoint information */
+void replay_breakpoint(void);
 
 /* Processing the instructions */
 
index 1e1dec0295bedd57e3d7c13a45370090dce3ab4c..30ca38e5dd1fd831ed9dfa7de3554e3e9c483ef1 100644 (file)
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 #include "migration/snapshot.h"
 
 static bool replay_is_debugging;
+static int64_t replay_last_breakpoint;
+static int64_t replay_last_snapshot;
 
 bool replay_running_debug(void)
 {
@@ -246,3 +248,73 @@ bool replay_reverse_step(void)
 
     return false;
 }
+
+static void replay_continue_end(void)
+{
+    replay_is_debugging = false;
+    vm_stop(RUN_STATE_DEBUG);
+    replay_delete_break();
+}
+
+static void replay_continue_stop(void *opaque)
+{
+    Error *err = NULL;
+    if (replay_last_breakpoint != -1LL) {
+        replay_seek(replay_last_breakpoint, replay_stop_vm_debug, &err);
+        if (err) {
+            error_free(err);
+            replay_continue_end();
+        }
+        return;
+    }
+    /*
+     * No breakpoints since the last snapshot.
+     * Find previous snapshot and try again.
+     */
+    if (replay_last_snapshot != 0) {
+        replay_seek(replay_last_snapshot - 1, replay_continue_stop, &err);
+        if (err) {
+            error_free(err);
+            replay_continue_end();
+        }
+        replay_last_snapshot = replay_get_current_icount();
+        return;
+    } else {
+        /* Seek to the very first step */
+        replay_seek(0, replay_stop_vm_debug, &err);
+        if (err) {
+            error_free(err);
+            replay_continue_end();
+        }
+        return;
+    }
+    replay_continue_end();
+}
+
+bool replay_reverse_continue(void)
+{
+    Error *err = NULL;
+
+    assert(replay_mode == REPLAY_MODE_PLAY);
+
+    if (replay_get_current_icount() != 0) {
+        replay_seek(replay_get_current_icount() - 1,
+                    replay_continue_stop, &err);
+        if (err) {
+            error_free(err);
+            return false;
+        }
+        replay_last_breakpoint = -1LL;
+        replay_is_debugging = true;
+        replay_last_snapshot = replay_get_current_icount();
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    return false;
+}
+
+void replay_breakpoint(void)
+{
+    assert(replay_mode == REPLAY_MODE_PLAY);
+    replay_last_breakpoint = replay_get_current_icount();
+}
index 95c557fac599741aac3bffca503bfd2977cda2ba..9e33416b4de396367375fc6264f44dc4bc66fc39 100644 (file)
@@ -286,6 +286,11 @@ void cpu_handle_guest_debug(CPUState *cpu)
 {
     if (replay_running_debug()) {
         if (!cpu->singlestep_enabled) {
+            /*
+             * Report about the breakpoint and
+             * make a single step to skip it
+             */
+            replay_breakpoint();
             cpu_single_step(cpu, SSTEP_ENABLE);
         } else {
             cpu_single_step(cpu, 0);
index d5b52302e9713a5b37264c3af4f5e94ccd0379ce..45ebe77fb9dcd30dc0b9df74b5ceac17b4e4ce8d 100644 (file)
@@ -98,3 +98,8 @@ bool replay_reverse_step(void)
 {
     return false;
 }
+
+bool replay_reverse_continue(void)
+{
+    return false;
+}