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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled |
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Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:56:01 +0000 |
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> Assuming that breakpoint locations are indeed meant to be virtual
> addresses, GDB would have to evaluate the CS descriptor, add the CS
> base to the EIP address and THEN check whether it knows the address.
> But as it seems to be segment-agnostic it doesn't do that and things
> break as a result.
As Dan said, gdb knows nothing about x86 segmentation. As soon as you have
nonzero segment bases you're pretty much on your own.
If you care about fixing this I suggest you get GDB folks to agree (and
document) how segmented memory models should work, then implement that model
in qemu. Hacking qemu to work for your particular case with unmodified gdb
probably "breaks" something else, so doesn't seem to improve the overall
usefulness.
I believe all common x86 OS use zero segment bases, and in long mode the CS/DS
segment bases are ignored.
Paul
- [Qemu-devel] Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/07
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Fabrice Bellard, 2006/11/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2006/11/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2006/11/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, andrzej zaborowski, 2006/11/10
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled,
Paul Brook <=
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2006/11/10
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Marcel Kilgus, 2006/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Debugging with paging enabled, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2006/11/10