How to debug networking codes?

[Joel Sherrill]

Till Straumann wrote:
> Rahman, Md Sazzadur wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestion. Lately I was trying to debug networking codes for SCTP in RTEMS via serial port using rtems_gdb_stub_1.4(http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~strauman/rtems/gdb/index.html). But, I was not able to connect target machine from the host using serial port although I was able to connect them using TCP/IP.
>>
>> In target init.c: I have added,
>>
>>
>>         init_remote_gdb(); //just to initialize serial port in RTEMS. It is defined:    /c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/shared/comm/gdb_glue.c
>>   
>>     
> I don't recall what this routine does and if it is compatible with
> my stub. I'd have to check...
>   
Those are regular gdb stubs that have been modified to make them
RTEMS thread aware.  You should use "target remote" or
"target extended-remote". 

With those, you should have a chance at debugging a network driver.
But you can't debug a network driver while simultaneously using it
to debug.  Till's debug server is over TCP/IP.
>>         rtems_gdb_start(0,"/dev/ttyS0");
>>         rtems_gdb_breakpoint();
>>
>> The console shows:
>>         GDB daemon (Release $Name: RTEMS_gdb_stub_1_4 $): starting up
>>
>>
>> In host: I was running GDB6.6 for target i386-ssrl-rtems
>>
>>   
>>     
> did you set the baudrate of the host gdb to 115200 ?
>
> T.
>   
>>         (gdb) target rtems-remote /dev/ttyS0
>>         Remote debugging using /dev/ttyS0
>>         Ignoring packet error, continuing...
>>         warning: unrecognized item "timeout" in "qSupported" response
>>         Ignoring packet error, continuing...
>>         Ignoring packet error, continuing...
>>         Ignoring packet error, continuing...
>>         Malformed response to offset query, timeout
>>         (gdb)
>>
>> //      Using   /dev/ttyS0 of this host, I could transfer and receive data with other Linux machines.
>>
>> Is there anything I am missing here? I would appreciate any help in this regard.
>>
>> -Sazzad
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Till Straumann [mailto:strauman at slac.stanford.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:20 PM
>> To: Rahman, Md S.
>> Cc: rtems-users at rtems.com
>> Subject: Re: How to debug networking codes?
>>
>> RTM.
>>
>> You cannot debug networking code. If you set a breakpoint in
>> networking and e.g., the network task is suspended at the breakpoint
>> -- how do you expect the stub to continue talking to the host gdb
>> using the same network stack???
>>
>> If you want to debug networking then you should use GDB on a serial
>> connection (preferrably a separate serial port where no printf/printk
>> is directed).
>>
>> HTH
>> -- Till
>>
>> Rahman, Md S. wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have been porting SCTP(Stream Control Transmission Protocol) in
>>> RTEMS from FreeBSD. This is a transport layer protocol and resides
>>> with TCP/UDP networking codes in kernel. I am mostly done with this
>>> port and a number of SCTP socket API's like socket, listen, bind,
>>> accept, connect etc. works fine.
>>>
>>> However, I am now encountering some exception problems while
>>> establishing SCTP connection between RTEMS SCTP endpoint with FreeBSD
>>> SCTP endpoint via internet. The console shows:
>>>
>>> Exception 6 caught at PC 191864 by Thread 167831697
>>>
>>> Processor execution context at time of the fault was:
>>>
>>> EAX 340012E7 EBX=384 ECX=FFFFFFFF EX=0
>>>
>>> ESI=0 EDI=0 EBP=195838 ESP=195804
>>>
>>> Error code pushed by processor itself (if not 0) = 0
>>>
>>> Faulty Thread will be deleted
>>>
>>> I tried to debug this problem by adding printf in codes but was not
>>> able to detect the exact statement which causes this exception. Then I
>>> have built RTEMS_GDB_Stub_1.4
>>> (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~strauman/rtems/gdb/index.html
>>> <http://www.slac.stanford.edu/%7Estrauman/rtems/gdb/index.html>) for
>>> remote debugging and built my RTEMS SCTP application with
>>> librtems-gdb-stub.a library. At this point, running the RTEMS
>>> application crashes with:
>>>
>>> GDB Agent: Exception (SIGILL) caught; Task 0xA010001 Killed
>>> (Suspended) -use GDB
>>>
>>> Exception Vector #0x6; Registers:
>>>
>>> .....................
>>>
>>> To investigate further with breakpoints, I have configured gdb6.6
>>> patched with RTEMS_GDB_Stub_1.4 in the host machine FC5. This works
>>> fine and any break point in RTEMS application in init.c could be
>>> reachable by the host gdb. However, when I try to reach a breakpoint
>>> in SCTP code which resides in cpukit/libnetworking/netinet, host gdb
>>> loses connection with the target machine and target application dies.
>>>
>>> In this point, I am not sure how should I proceed to solve this problem.
>>>
>>> I would appreciate any suggestion in this regard.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Md Sazzadur Rahman
>>>
>>> Graduate Student,
>>>
>>> School of Computer Science,
>>>
>>> University of Oklahoma,
>>>
>>> Norman, Oklahoma, USA
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> rtems-users mailing list
>>> rtems-users at rtems.com
>>> http://rtems.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-users
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> rtems-users mailing list
> rtems-users at rtems.com
> http://rtems.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/rtems-users
>