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+ Debugging on Linux for s/390 & zSeries
+ by
+ Denis Joseph Barrow (djbarrow@de.ibm.com,barrow_dj@yahoo.com)
+ Copyright (C) 2000-2001 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, IBM Corporation
+ Best viewed with fixed width fonts
+
+Overview of Document:
+=====================
+This document is intended to give an good overview of how to debug
+Linux for s/390 & zSeries it isn't intended as a complete reference & not a
+tutorial on the fundamentals of C & assembly, it dosen't go into
+390 IO in any detail. It is intended to compliment the documents in the
+reference section below & any other worthwhile references you get.
+
+It is intended like the Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Reference Summary
+to be printed out & used as a quick cheat sheet self help style reference when
+problems occur.
+
+Contents
+========
+Register Set
+Address Spaces on Intel Linux
+Address Spaces on Linux for s/390 & zSeries
+The Linux for s/390 & zSeries Kernel Task Structure
+Register Usage & Stackframes on Linux for s/390 & zSeries
+A sample program with comments
+Compiling programs for debugging on Linux for s/390 & zSeries
+Figuring out gcc compile errors
+Debugging Tools
+objdump
+strace
+Performance Debugging
+Debugging under VM
+s/390 & zSeries IO Overview
+Debugging IO on s/390 & zSeries under VM
+GDB on s/390 & zSeries
+Stack chaining in gdb by hand
+Examining core dumps
+ldd
+Debugging modules
+The proc file system
+Starting points for debugging scripting languages etc.
+Tools soon to be available
+SysRq
+References
+
+Register Set
+============
+The current architectures have the following registers.
+
+16 General propose registers, 32 bit on s/390 64 bit on zSeries, r0-r15 or gpr0-gpr15 used for arithmetic & addressing.
+
+16 Control registers, 32 bit on s/390 64 bit on zSeries, ( cr0-cr15 kernel usage only ) used for memory managment,
+interrupt control,debugging control etc.
+
+16 Access registers ( ar0-ar15 ) 32 bit on s/390 & zSeries
+not used by normal programs but potentially could
+be used as temporary storage. Their main purpose is their 1 to 1
+association with general purpose registers and are used in
+the kernel for copying data between kernel & user address spaces.
+Access register 0 ( & access register 1 on z/Series ( needs 64 bit pointer ) )
+is currently used by the pthread library as a pointer to
+the current running threads private area.
+
+16 64 bit floating point registers (fp0-fp15 ) IEEE & HFP floating
+point format compliant on G5 upwards & a Floating point control reg (FPC)
+4 64 bit registers (fp0,fp2,fp4 & fp6) HFP only on older machines.
+Note:
+Linux (currently) always uses IEEE & emulates G5 IEEE format on older machines,
+( provided the kernel is configured for this ).
+
+
+The PSW is the most important register on the machine it
+is 64 bit on s/390 & 128 bit on zSeries & serves the roles of
+a program counter (pc), condition code register,memory space designator.
+In IBM standard notation I am counting bit 0 as the MSB.
+It has several advantages over a normal program counter
+in that you can change address translation & program counter
+in a single instruction. To change address translation,
+e.g. switching address translation off requires that you
+have a logical=physical mapping for the address you are
+currently running at.
+
+ Bit Value
+s/390 zSeries
+0 0 Reserved ( must be 0 ) otherwise specification exception occurs.
+
+1 1 Program Event Recording 1 PER enabled,
+ PER is used to facilititate debugging e.g. single stepping.
+
+2-4 2-4 Reserved ( must be 0 ).
+
+5 5 Dynamic address translation 1=DAT on.
+
+6 6 Input/Output interrupt Mask
+
+7 7 External interrupt Mask used primarily for interprocessor signalling &
+ clock interupts.
+
+8-11 8-11 PSW Key used for complex memory protection mechanism not used under linux
+
+12 12 1 on s/390 0 on zSeries
+
+13 13 Machine Check Mask 1=enable machine check interrupts
+
+14 14 Wait State set this to 1 to stop the processor except for interrupts & give
+ time to other LPARS used in CPU idle in the kernel to increase overall
+ usage of processor resources.
+
+15 15 Problem state ( if set to 1 certain instructions are disabled )
+ all linux user programs run with this bit 1
+ ( useful info for debugging under VM ).
+
+16-17 16-17 Address Space Control
+
+ 00 Primary Space Mode when DAT on
+ The linux kernel currently runs in this mode, CR1 is affiliated with
+ this mode & points to the primary segment table origin etc.
+
+ 01 Access register mode this mode is used in functions to
+ copy data between kernel & user space.
+
+ 10 Secondary space mode not used in linux however CR7 the
+ register affiliated with this mode is & this & normally
+ CR13=CR7 to allow us to copy data between kernel & user space.
+ We do this as follows:
+ We set ar2 to 0 to designate its
+ affiliated gpr ( gpr2 )to point to primary=kernel space.
+ We set ar4 to 1 to designate its
+ affiliated gpr ( gpr4 ) to point to secondary=home=user space
+ & then essentially do a memcopy(gpr2,gpr4,size) to
+ copy data between the address spaces, the reason we use home space for the
+ kernel & don't keep secondary space free is that code will not run in
+ secondary space.
+
+ 11 Home Space Mode all user programs run in this mode.
+ it is affiliated with CR13.
+
+18-19 18-19 Condition codes (CC)
+
+20 20 Fixed point overflow mask if 1=FPU exceptions for this event
+ occur ( normally 0 )
+
+21 21 Decimal overflow mask if 1=FPU exceptions for this event occur
+ ( normally 0 )
+
+22 22 Exponent underflow mask if 1=FPU exceptions for this event occur
+ ( normally 0 )
+
+23 23 Significance Mask if 1=FPU exceptions for this event occur
+ ( normally 0 )
+
+24-31 24-30 Reserved Must be 0.
+
+ 31 Extended Addressing Mode
+ 32 Basic Addressing Mode
+ Used to set addressing mode
+ PSW 31 PSW 32
+ 0 0 24 bit
+ 0 1 31 bit
+ 1 1 64 bit
+
+32 1=31 bit addressing mode 0=24 bit addressing mode (for backward
+ compatibility ), linux always runs with this bit set to 1
+
+33-64 Instruction address.
+ 33-63 Reserved must be 0
+ 64-127 Address
+ In 24 bits mode bits 64-103=0 bits 104-127 Address
+ In 31 bits mode bits 64-96=0 bits 97-127 Address
+ Note: unlike 31 bit mode on s/390 bit 96 must be zero
+ when loading the address with LPSWE otherwise a
+ specification exception occurs, LPSW is fully backward
+ compatible.
+
+
+Prefix Page
+-----------
+This per cpu memory area is too intimately tied to the processor not to mention.
+It exists between the real addresses 0-4096 on the processor & is exchanged
+with a page in absolute storage by the set prefix instruction in linux'es startup.
+This page different on each processor.
+Bytes 0-512 ( 200 hex ) are used by the processor itself for holding such
+information as exception indications & entry points for exceptions.
+Bytes after 0xc00 hex are used by linux for per processor globals.
+The closest thing to this on traditional architectures is the interrupt
+vector table. This is a good thing & does simplify some of the kernel coding
+however it means that we now cannot catch stray NULL pointers in the
+kernel without hard coded checks.
+
+
+
+Address Spaces on Intel Linux
+=============================
+
+The traditional Intel Linux is approximately mapped as follows forgive
+the ascii art.
+0xFFFFFFFF 4GB Himem *****************
+ * *
+ * Kernel Space *
+ * *
+ ***************** ****************
+User Space Himem (typically 0xC0000000 3GB )* User Stack * * *
+ ***************** * *
+ * Shared Libs * * Next Process *
+ ***************** * to *
+ * * <== * Run * <==
+ * User Program * * *
+ * Data BSS * * *
+ * Text * * *
+ * Sections * * *
+0x00000000 ***************** ****************
+
+Now it is easy to see that on Intel it is quite easy to recognise a kernel address
+as being one greater than user space himem ( in this case 0xC0000000).
+& addresses of less than this are the ones in the current running program on this
+processor ( if an smp box ).
+If using the virtual machine ( VM ) as a debugger it is quite difficult to
+know which user process is running as the address space you are looking at
+could be from any process in the run queue.
+Thankfully you normally get lucky as address spaces don't overlap that &
+you can recognise the code at by cross referencing with a dump made by objdump
+( more about that later ).
+
+The limitation of Intels addressing technique is that the linux
+kernel uses a very simple real address to virtual addressing technique
+of Real Address=Virtual Address-User Space Himem.
+This means that on Intel the kernel linux can typically only address
+Himem=0xFFFFFFFF-0xC0000000=1GB & this is all the RAM these machines
+can typically use.
+They can lower User Himem to 2GB or lower & thus be
+able to use 2GB of RAM however this shrinks the maximum size
+of User Space from 3GB to 2GB they have a no win limit of 4GB unless
+they go to 64 Bit.
+
+
+On 390 our limitations & strengths make us slightly different.
+For backward compatibility we are only allowed use 31 bits (2GB)
+of our 32 bit addresses,however, we use entirely separate address
+spaces for the user & kernel.
+
+This means we can support 2GB of non Extended RAM, & more
+with the Extended memory managment swap device & 64 Bit
+when it comes along.
+
+
+Address Spaces on Linux for S390
+================================
+
+Our addressing scheme is as follows
+
+
+Himem 0x7fffffff 2GB on s/390 ***************** ****************
+2^64 bytes on zSeries * User Stack * * *
+ ***************** * *
+ * Shared Libs * * *
+ ***************** * *
+ * * * Kernel *
+ * User Program * * *
+ * Data BSS * * *
+ * Text * * *
+ * Sections * * *
+0x00000000 ***************** ****************
+
+This also means that we need to look at the PSW problem state bit
+or the addressing mode to decide whether we are looking at
+user or kernel space.
+
+The Linux for s/390 & zSeries Kernel Task Structure
+===================================================
+Each process/thread under Linux for S390 has its own kernel task_struct
+defined in linux/include/linux/sched.h
+The S390 on initialisation & resuming of a process on a cpu sets
+the __LC_KERNEL_STACK variable in the spare prefix area for this cpu
+( which we use for per processor globals).
+
+The kernel stack pointer is intimately tied with the task stucture for
+each processor as follows.
+
+ s/390
+ ************************
+ * 1 page kernel stack *
+ * ( 4K ) *
+ ************************
+ * 1 page task_struct *
+ * ( 4K ) *
+8K aligned ************************
+
+ zSeries
+ ************************
+ * 2 page kernel stack *
+ * ( 8K ) *
+ ************************
+ * 2 page task_struct *
+ * ( 8K ) *
+16K aligned ************************
+
+What this means is that we don't need to dedicate any register or global variable
+to point to the current running process & can retrieve it with the following
+very simple construct for s/390 & one very similar for zSeries.
+
+static inline struct task_struct * get_current(void)
+{
+ struct task_struct *current;
+ __asm__("lhi %0,-8192\n\t"
+ "nr %0,15"
+ : "=r" (current) );
+ return current;
+}
+
+i.e. just anding the current kernel stack pointer with the mask -8192.
+Thankfully because Linux dosen't have support for nested IO interrupts
+& our devices have large buffers can survive interrupts being shut for
+short amounts of time we don't need a separate stack for interrupts.
+
+
+
+
+Register Usage & Stackframes on Linux for s/390 & zSeries
+=========================================================
+Overview:
+---------
+This is the code that gcc produces at the top & the bottom of
+each function, it usually is fairly consistent & similar from
+function to function & if you know its layout you can probalby
+make some headway in finding the ultimate cause of a problem
+after a crash without a source level debugger.
+
+Note: To follow stackframes requires a knowledge of C or Pascal &
+limited knowledge of one assembly language.
+
+It should be noted that there are some differences between the
+s/390 & zSeries stack layouts as the zSeries stack layout didn't have
+to maintain compatibility with older linkage formats.
+
+Glossary:
+---------
+alloca:
+This is a built in compiler function for runtime allocation
+of extra space on the callers stack which is obviously freed
+up on function exit ( e.g. the caller may choose to allocate nothing
+of a buffer of 4k if required for temporary purposes ), it generates
+very efficent code ( a few cycles ) when compared to alternatives
+like malloc.
+
+automatics: These are local variables on the stack,
+i.e they aren't in registers & they aren't static.
+
+back-chain:
+This is a pointer to the stack pointer before entering a
+framed functions ( see frameless function ) prologue got by
+deferencing the address of the current stack pointer,
+ i.e. got by accessing the 32 bit value at the stack pointers
+current location.
+
+base-pointer:
+This is a pointer to the back of the literal pool which
+is an area just behind each procedure used to store constants
+in each function.
+
+call-clobbered: The caller probably needs to save these registers if there
+is something of value in them, on the stack or elsewhere before making a
+call to another procedure so that it can restore it later.
+
+epilogue:
+The code generated by the compiler to return to the caller.
+
+frameless-function
+A frameless function in Linux for s390 & zSeries is one which doesn't need
+more than the register save area ( 96 bytes on s/390, 160 on zSeries )
+given to it by the caller.
+A frameless function never:
+1) Sets up a back chain.
+2) Calls alloca.
+3) Calls other normal functions
+4) Has automatics.
+
+GOT-pointer:
+This is a pointer to the global-offset-table in ELF
+( Executable Linkable Format, Linux'es most common executable format ),
+all globals & shared library objects are found using this pointer.
+
+lazy-binding
+ELF shared libraries are typically only loaded when routines in the shared
+library are actually first called at runtime. This is lazy binding.
+
+procedure-linkage-table
+This is a table found from the GOT which contains pointers to routines
+in other shared libraries which can't be called to by easier means.
+
+prologue:
+The code generated by the compiler to set up the stack frame.
+
+outgoing-args:
+This is extra area allocated on the stack of the calling function if the
+parameters for the callee's cannot all be put in registers, the same
+area can be reused by each function the caller calls.
+
+routine-descriptor:
+A COFF executable format based concept of a procedure reference
+actually being 8 bytes or more as opposed to a simple pointer to the routine.
+This is typically defined as follows
+Routine Descriptor offset 0=Pointer to Function
+Routine Descriptor offset 4=Pointer to Table of Contents
+The table of contents/TOC is roughly equivalent to a GOT pointer.
+& it means that shared libraries etc. can be shared between several
+environments each with their own TOC.
+
+
+static-chain: This is used in nested functions a concept adopted from pascal
+by gcc not used in ansi C or C++ ( although quite useful ), basically it
+is a pointer used to reference local variables of enclosing functions.
+You might come across this stuff once or twice in your lifetime.
+
+e.g.
+The function below should return 11 though gcc may get upset & toss warnings
+about unused variables.
+int FunctionA(int a)
+{
+ int b;
+ FunctionC(int c)
+ {
+ b=c+1;
+ }
+ FunctionC(10);
+ return(b);
+}
+
+
+s/390 & zSeries Register usage
+==============================
+r0 used by syscalls/assembly call-clobbered
+r1 used by syscalls/assembly call-clobbered
+r2 argument 0 / return value 0 call-clobbered
+r3 argument 1 / return value 1 (if long long) call-clobbered
+r4 argument 2 call-clobbered
+r5 argument 3 call-clobbered
+r6 argument 5 saved
+r7 pointer-to arguments 5 to ... saved
+r8 this & that saved
+r9 this & that saved
+r10 static-chain ( if nested function ) saved
+r11 frame-pointer ( if function used alloca ) saved
+r12 got-pointer saved
+r13 base-pointer saved
+r14 return-address saved
+r15 stack-pointer saved
+
+f0 argument 0 / return value ( float/double ) call-clobbered
+f2 argument 1 call-clobbered
+f4 zSeries argument 2 saved
+f6 zSeries argument 3 saved
+The remaining floating points
+f1,f3,f5 f7-f15 are call-clobbered.
+
+Notes:
+------
+1) The only requirement is that registers which are used
+by the callee are saved, e.g. the compiler is perfectly
+capible of using r11 for purposes other than a frame a
+frame pointer if a frame pointer is not needed.
+2) In functions with variable arguments e.g. printf the calling procedure
+is identical to one without variable arguments & the same number of
+parameters. However, the prologue of this function is somewhat more
+hairy owing to it having to move these parameters to the stack to
+get va_start, va_arg & va_end to work.
+3) Access registers are currently unused by gcc but are used in
+the kernel. Possibilities exist to use them at the moment for
+temporary storage but it isn't recommended.
+4) Only 4 of the floating point registers are used for
+parameter passing as older machines such as G3 only have only 4
+& it keeps the stack frame compatible with other compilers.
+However with IEEE floating point emulation under linux on the
+older machines you are free to use the other 12.
+5) A long long or double parameter cannot be have the
+first 4 bytes in a register & the second four bytes in the
+outgoing args area. It must be purely in the outgoing args
+area if crossing this boundary.
+6) Floating point parameters are mixed with outgoing args
+on the outgoing args area in the order the are passed in as parameters.
+7) Floating point arguments 2 & 3 are saved in the outgoing args area for zSeries
+
+
+Stack Frame Layout
+------------------
+s/390 zSeries
+0 0 back chain ( a 0 here signifies end of back chain )
+4 8 eos ( end of stack, not used on Linux for S390 used in other linkage formats )
+8 16 glue used in other s/390 linkage formats for saved routine descriptors etc.
+12 24 glue used in other s/390 linkage formats for saved routine descriptors etc.
+16 32 scratch area
+20 40 scratch area
+24 48 saved r6 of caller function
+28 56 saved r7 of caller function
+32 64 saved r8 of caller function
+36 72 saved r9 of caller function
+40 80 saved r10 of caller function
+44 88 saved r11 of caller function
+48 96 saved r12 of caller function
+52 104 saved r13 of caller function
+56 112 saved r14 of caller function
+60 120 saved r15 of caller function
+64 128 saved f4 of caller function
+72 132 saved f6 of caller function
+80 undefined
+96 160 outgoing args passed from caller to callee
+96+x 160+x possible stack alignment ( 8 bytes desirable )
+96+x+y 160+x+y alloca space of caller ( if used )
+96+x+y+z 160+x+y+z automatics of caller ( if used )
+0 back-chain
+
+A sample program with comments.
+===============================
+
+Comments on the function test
+-----------------------------
+1) It didn't need to set up a pointer to the constant pool gpr13 as it isn't used
+( :-( ).
+2) This is a frameless function & no stack is bought.
+3) The compiler was clever enough to recognise that it could return the
+value in r2 as well as use it for the passed in parameter ( :-) ).
+4) The basr ( branch relative & save ) trick works as follows the instruction
+has a special case with r0,r0 with some instruction operands is understood as
+the literal value 0, some risc architectures also do this ). So now
+we are branching to the next address & the address new program counter is
+in r13,so now we subtract the size of the function prologue we have executed
++ the size of the literal pool to get to the top of the literal pool
+0040037c int test(int b)
+{ # Function prologue below
+ 40037c: 90 de f0 34 stm %r13,%r14,52(%r15) # Save registers r13 & r14
+ 400380: 0d d0 basr %r13,%r0 # Set up pointer to constant pool using
+ 400382: a7 da ff fa ahi %r13,-6 # basr trick
+ return(5+b);
+ # Huge main program
+ 400386: a7 2a 00 05 ahi %r2,5 # add 5 to r2
+
+ # Function epilogue below
+ 40038a: 98 de f0 34 lm %r13,%r14,52(%r15) # restore registers r13 & 14
+ 40038e: 07 fe br %r14 # return
+}
+
+Comments on the function main
+-----------------------------
+1) The compiler did this function optimally ( 8-) )
+
+Literal pool for main.
+400390: ff ff ff ec .long 0xffffffec
+main(int argc,char *argv[])
+{ # Function prologue below
+ 400394: 90 bf f0 2c stm %r11,%r15,44(%r15) # Save necessary registers
+ 400398: 18 0f lr %r0,%r15 # copy stack pointer to r0
+ 40039a: a7 fa ff a0 ahi %r15,-96 # Make area for callee saving
+ 40039e: 0d d0 basr %r13,%r0 # Set up r13 to point to
+ 4003a0: a7 da ff f0 ahi %r13,-16 # literal pool
+ 4003a4: 50 00 f0 00 st %r0,0(%r15) # Save backchain
+
+ return(test(5)); # Main Program Below
+ 4003a8: 58 e0 d0 00 l %r14,0(%r13) # load relative address of test from
+ # literal pool
+ 4003ac: a7 28 00 05 lhi %r2,5 # Set first parameter to 5
+ 4003b0: 4d ee d0 00 bas %r14,0(%r14,%r13) # jump to test setting r14 as return
+ # address using branch & save instruction.
+
+ # Function Epilogue below
+ 4003b4: 98 bf f0 8c lm %r11,%r15,140(%r15)# Restore necessary registers.
+ 4003b8: 07 fe br %r14 # return to do program exit
+}
+
+
+Compiler updates
+----------------
+
+main(int argc,char *argv[])
+{
+ 4004fc: 90 7f f0 1c stm %r7,%r15,28(%r15)
+ 400500: a7 d5 00 04 bras %r13,400508 <main+0xc>
+ 400504: 00 40 04 f4 .long 0x004004f4
+ # compiler now puts constant pool in code to so it saves an instruction
+ 400508: 18 0f lr %r0,%r15
+ 40050a: a7 fa ff a0 ahi %r15,-96
+ 40050e: 50 00 f0 00 st %r0,0(%r15)
+ return(test(5));
+ 400512: 58 10 d0 00 l %r1,0(%r13)
+ 400516: a7 28 00 05 lhi %r2,5
+ 40051a: 0d e1 basr %r14,%r1
+ # compiler adds 1 extra instruction to epilogue this is done to
+ # avoid processor pipeline stalls owing to data dependencies on g5 &
+ # above as register 14 in the old code was needed directly after being loaded
+ # by the lm %r11,%r15,140(%r15) for the br %14.
+ 40051c: 58 40 f0 98 l %r4,152(%r15)
+ 400520: 98 7f f0 7c lm %r7,%r15,124(%r15)
+ 400524: 07 f4 br %r4
+}
+
+
+Hartmut ( our compiler developer ) also has been threatening to take out the
+stack backchain in optimised code as this also causes pipeline stalls, you
+have been warned.
+
+64 bit zSeries code disassembly
+-------------------------------
+
+If you understand the stuff above you'll understand the stuff
+below too so I'll avoid repeating myself & just say that
+some of the instructions have g's on the end of them to indicate
+they are 64 bit & the stack offsets are a bigger,
+the only other difference you'll find between 32 & 64 bit is that
+we now use f4 & f6 for floating point arguments on 64 bit.
+00000000800005b0 <test>:
+int test(int b)
+{
+ return(5+b);
+ 800005b0: a7 2a 00 05 ahi %r2,5
+ 800005b4: b9 14 00 22 lgfr %r2,%r2 # downcast to integer
+ 800005b8: 07 fe br %r14
+ 800005ba: 07 07 bcr 0,%r7
+
+
+}
+
+00000000800005bc <main>:
+main(int argc,char *argv[])
+{
+ 800005bc: eb bf f0 58 00 24 stmg %r11,%r15,88(%r15)
+ 800005c2: b9 04 00 1f lgr %r1,%r15
+ 800005c6: a7 fb ff 60 aghi %r15,-160
+ 800005ca: e3 10 f0 00 00 24 stg %r1,0(%r15)
+ return(test(5));
+ 800005d0: a7 29 00 05 lghi %r2,5
+ # brasl allows jumps > 64k & is overkill here bras would do fune
+ 800005d4: c0 e5 ff ff ff ee brasl %r14,800005b0 <test>
+ 800005da: e3 40 f1 10 00 04 lg %r4,272(%r15)
+ 800005e0: eb bf f0 f8 00 04 lmg %r11,%r15,248(%r15)
+ 800005e6: 07 f4 br %r4
+}
+
+
+
+Compiling programs for debugging on Linux for s/390 & zSeries
+=============================================================
+-gdwarf2 now works & normal -g debugging works much better now
+Thanks to the IBM java compiler developers bug reports.
+
+This is typically done adding/appending the flags -g to the
+CFLAGS & LDFLAGS variables Makefile of the program concerned.
+
+If using gdb & you would like accurate displays of registers &
+ stack traces compile without optimisation i.e make sure
+that there is no -O2 or similar on the CFLAGS line of the Makefile &
+the emitted gcc commands, obviously this will produce worse code
+( not advisable for shipment ) but it is an aid to the debugging process.
+
+This aids debugging because the compiler will copy parameters passed in
+in registers onto the stack so backtracing & looking at passed in
+parameters will work, however some larger programs which use inline functions
+will not compile without optimisation.
+
+Debugging with optimisation has since much improved after fixing
+some bugs, please make sure you are using gdb-5.0 or later developed
+after Nov'2000.
+
+Figuring out gcc compile errors
+===============================
+If you are getting a lot of syntax errors compiling a program & the problem
+isn't blatantly obvious from the source.
+It often helps to just preprocess the file, this is done with the -E
+option in gcc.
+What this does is that it runs through the very first phase of compilation
+( compilation in gcc is done in several stages & gcc calls many programs to
+achieve its end result ) with the -E option gcc just calls the gcc preprocessor (cpp).
+The c preprocessor does the following, it joins all the files #included together
+recursively ( #include files can #include other files ) & also the c file you wish to compile.
+It puts a fully qualified path of the #included files in a comment & it
+does macro expansion.
+This is useful for debugging because
+1) You can double check whether the files you expect to be included are the ones
+that are being included ( e.g. double check that you aren't going to the i386 asm directory ).
+2) Check that macro definitions aren't clashing with typedefs,
+3) Check that definitons aren't being used before they are being included.
+4) Helps put the line emitting the error under the microscope if it contains macros.
+
+For convenience the Linux kernel's makefile will do preprocessing automatically for you
+by suffixing the file you want built with .i ( instead of .o )
+
+e.g.
+from the linux directory type
+make arch/s390/kernel/signal.i
+this will build
+
+s390-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home1/barrow/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
+-fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -E arch/s390/kernel/signal.c
+> arch/s390/kernel/signal.i
+
+Now look at signal.i you should see something like.
+
+
+# 1 "/home1/barrow/linux/include/asm/types.h" 1
+typedef unsigned short umode_t;
+typedef __signed__ char __s8;
+typedef unsigned char __u8;
+typedef __signed__ short __s16;
+typedef unsigned short __u16;
+
+If instead you are getting errors further down e.g.
+unknown instruction:2515 "move.l" or better still unknown instruction:2515
+"Fixme not implemented yet, call Martin" you are probably are attempting to compile some code
+meant for another architecture or code that is simply not implemented, with a fixme statement
+stuck into the inline assembly code so that the author of the file now knows he has work to do.
+To look at the assembly emitted by gcc just before it is about to call gas ( the gnu assembler )
+use the -S option.
+Again for your convenience the Linux kernel's Makefile will hold your hand &
+do all this donkey work for you also by building the file with the .s suffix.
+e.g.
+from the Linux directory type
+make arch/s390/kernel/signal.s
+
+s390-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home1/barrow/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
+-fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -S arch/s390/kernel/signal.c
+-o arch/s390/kernel/signal.s
+
+
+This will output something like, ( please note the constant pool & the useful comments
+in the prologue to give you a hand at interpreting it ).
+
+.LC54:
+ .string "misaligned (__u16 *) in __xchg\n"
+.LC57:
+ .string "misaligned (__u32 *) in __xchg\n"
+.L$PG1: # Pool sys_sigsuspend
+.LC192:
+ .long -262401
+.LC193:
+ .long -1
+.LC194:
+ .long schedule-.L$PG1
+.LC195:
+ .long do_signal-.L$PG1
+ .align 4
+.globl sys_sigsuspend
+ .type sys_sigsuspend,@function
+sys_sigsuspend:
+# leaf function 0
+# automatics 16
+# outgoing args 0
+# need frame pointer 0
+# call alloca 0
+# has varargs 0
+# incoming args (stack) 0
+# function length 168
+ STM 8,15,32(15)
+ LR 0,15
+ AHI 15,-112
+ BASR 13,0
+.L$CO1: AHI 13,.L$PG1-.L$CO1
+ ST 0,0(15)
+ LR 8,2
+ N 5,.LC192-.L$PG1(13)
+
+Adding -g to the above output makes the output even more useful
+e.g. typing
+make CC:="s390-gcc -g" kernel/sched.s
+
+which compiles.
+s390-gcc -g -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/barrow/linux-2.3/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -S kernel/sched.c -o kernel/sched.s
+
+also outputs stabs ( debugger ) info, from this info you can find out the
+offsets & sizes of various elements in structures.
+e.g. the stab for the structure
+struct rlimit {
+ unsigned long rlim_cur;
+ unsigned long rlim_max;
+};
+is
+.stabs "rlimit:T(151,2)=s8rlim_cur:(0,5),0,32;rlim_max:(0,5),32,32;;",128,0,0,0
+from this stab you can see that
+rlimit_cur starts at bit offset 0 & is 32 bits in size
+rlimit_max starts at bit offset 32 & is 32 bits in size.
+
+
+Debugging Tools:
+================
+
+objdump
+=======
+This is a tool with many options the most useful being ( if compiled with -g).
+objdump --source <victim program or object file> > <victims debug listing >
+
+
+The whole kernel can be compiled like this ( Doing this will make a 17MB kernel
+& a 200 MB listing ) however you have to strip it before building the image
+using the strip command to make it a more reasonable size to boot it.
+
+A source/assembly mixed dump of the kernel can be done with the line
+objdump --source vmlinux > vmlinux.lst
+Also if the file isn't compiled -g this will output as much debugging information
+as it can ( e.g. function names ), however, this is very slow as it spends lots
+of time searching for debugging info, the following self explanitory line should be used
+instead if the code isn't compiled -g.
+objdump --disassemble-all --syms vmlinux > vmlinux.lst
+as it is much faster
+
+As hard drive space is valuble most of us use the following approach.
+1) Look at the emitted psw on the console to find the crash address in the kernel.
+2) Look at the file System.map ( in the linux directory ) produced when building
+the kernel to find the closest address less than the current PSW to find the
+offending function.
+3) use grep or similar to search the source tree looking for the source file
+ with this function if you don't know where it is.
+4) rebuild this object file with -g on, as an example suppose the file was
+( /arch/s390/kernel/signal.o )
+5) Assuming the file with the erroneous function is signal.c Move to the base of the
+Linux source tree.
+6) rm /arch/s390/kernel/signal.o
+7) make /arch/s390/kernel/signal.o
+8) watch the gcc command line emitted
+9) type it in again or alernatively cut & paste it on the console adding the -g option.
+10) objdump --source arch/s390/kernel/signal.o > signal.lst
+This will output the source & the assembly intermixed, as the snippet below shows
+This will unfortunately output addresses which aren't the same
+as the kernel ones you should be able to get around the mental arithmetic
+by playing with the --adjust-vma parameter to objdump.
+
+
+
+
+extern inline void spin_lock(spinlock_t *lp)
+{
+ a0: 18 34 lr %r3,%r4
+ a2: a7 3a 03 bc ahi %r3,956
+ __asm__ __volatile(" lhi 1,-1\n"
+ a6: a7 18 ff ff lhi %r1,-1
+ aa: 1f 00 slr %r0,%r0
+ ac: ba 01 30 00 cs %r0,%r1,0(%r3)
+ b0: a7 44 ff fd jm aa <sys_sigsuspend+0x2e>
+ saveset = current->blocked;
+ b4: d2 07 f0 68 mvc 104(8,%r15),972(%r4)
+ b8: 43 cc
+ return (set->sig[0] & mask) != 0;
+}
+
+6) If debugging under VM go down to that section in the document for more info.
+
+
+I now have a tool which takes the pain out of --adjust-vma
+& you are able to do something like
+make /arch/s390/kernel/traps.lst
+& it automatically generates the correctly relocated entries for
+the text segment in traps.lst.
+This tool is now standard in linux distro's in scripts/makelst
+
+strace:
+-------
+Q. What is it ?
+A. It is a tool for intercepting calls to the kernel & logging them
+to a file & on the screen.
+
+Q. What use is it ?
+A. You can used it to find out what files a particular program opens.
+
+
+
+Example 1
+---------
+If you wanted to know does ping work but didn't have the source
+strace ping -c 1 127.0.0.1
+& then look at the man pages for each of the syscalls below,
+( In fact this is sometimes easier than looking at some spagetti
+source which conditionally compiles for several architectures )
+Not everything that it throws out needs to make sense immeadiately
+
+Just looking quickly you can see that it is making up a RAW socket
+for the ICMP protocol.
+Doing an alarm(10) for a 10 second timeout
+& doing a gettimeofday call before & after each read to see
+how long the replies took, & writing some text to stdout so the user
+has an idea what is going on.
+
+socket(PF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_ICMP) = 3
+getuid() = 0
+setuid(0) = 0
+stat("/usr/share/locale/C/libc.cat", 0xbffff134) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+stat("/usr/share/locale/libc/C", 0xbffff134) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+stat("/usr/local/share/locale/C/libc.cat", 0xbffff134) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+getpid() = 353
+setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_BROADCAST, [1], 4) = 0
+setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, [49152], 4) = 0
+fstat(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(3, 1), ...}) = 0
+mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40008000
+ioctl(1, TCGETS, {B9600 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
+write(1, "PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 d"..., 42PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
+) = 42
+sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8049ba0, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
+sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8049600, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL}) = 0
+gettimeofday({948904719, 138951}, NULL) = 0
+sendto(3, "\10\0D\201a\1\0\0\17#\2178\307\36"..., 64, 0, {sin_family=AF_INET,
+sin_port=htons(0), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = 64
+sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8049600, [], SA_RESTART}, {0x8049600, [], SA_RESTART}) = 0
+sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8049ba0, [], SA_RESTART}, {0x8049600, [], SA_RESTART}) = 0
+alarm(10) = 0
+recvfrom(3, "E\0\0T\0005\0\0@\1|r\177\0\0\1\177"..., 192, 0,
+{sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(50882), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, [16]) = 84
+gettimeofday({948904719, 160224}, NULL) = 0
+recvfrom(3, "E\0\0T\0006\0\0\377\1\275p\177\0"..., 192, 0,
+{sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(50882), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, [16]) = 84
+gettimeofday({948904719, 166952}, NULL) = 0
+write(1, "64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_se"...,
+5764 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=28.0 ms
+
+Example 2
+---------
+strace passwd 2>&1 | grep open
+produces the following output
+open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
+open("/opt/kde/lib/libc.so.5", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
+open("/lib/libc.so.5", O_RDONLY) = 3
+open("/dev", O_RDONLY) = 3
+open("/var/run/utmp", O_RDONLY) = 3
+open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3
+open("/etc/shadow", O_RDONLY) = 3
+open("/etc/login.defs", O_RDONLY) = 4
+open("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY) = 4
+
+The 2>&1 is done to redirect stderr to stdout & grep is then filtering this input
+through the pipe for each line containing the string open.
+
+
+Example 3
+---------
+Getting sophistocated
+telnetd crashes on & I don't know why
+Steps
+-----
+1) Replace the following line in /etc/inetd.conf
+telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -h
+with
+telnet stream tcp nowait root /blah
+
+2) Create the file /blah with the following contents to start tracing telnetd
+#!/bin/bash
+/usr/bin/strace -o/t1 -f /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -h
+3) chmod 700 /blah to make it executable only to root
+4)
+killall -HUP inetd
+or ps aux | grep inetd
+get inetd's process id
+& kill -HUP inetd to restart it.
+
+Important options
+-----------------
+-o is used to tell strace to output to a file in our case t1 in the root directory
+-f is to follow children i.e.
+e.g in our case above telnetd will start the login process & subsequently a shell like bash.
+You will be able to tell which is which from the process ID's listed on the left hand side
+of the strace output.
+-p<pid> will tell strace to attach to a running process, yup this can be done provided
+ it isn't being traced or debugged already & you have enough privileges,
+the reason 2 processes cannot trace or debug the same program is that strace
+becomes the parent process of the one being debugged & processes ( unlike people )
+can have only one parent.
+
+
+However the file /t1 will get big quite quickly
+to test it telnet 127.0.0.1
+
+now look at what files in.telnetd execve'd
+413 execve("/usr/sbin/in.telnetd", ["/usr/sbin/in.telnetd", "-h"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0
+414 execve("/bin/login", ["/bin/login", "-h", "localhost", "-p"], [/* 2 vars */]) = 0
+
+Whey it worked!.
+
+
+Other hints:
+------------
+If the program is not very interactive ( i.e. not much keyboard input )
+& is crashing in one architecture but not in another you can do
+an strace of both programs under as identical a scenario as you can
+on both architectures outputting to a file then.
+do a diff of the two traces using the diff program
+i.e.
+diff output1 output2
+& maybe you'll be able to see where the call paths differed, this
+is possibly near the cause of the crash.
+
+More info
+---------
+Look at man pages for strace & the various syscalls
+e.g. man strace, man alarm, man socket.
+
+
+Performance Debugging
+=====================
+gcc is capible of compiling in profiling code just add the -p option
+to the CFLAGS, this obviously affects program size & performance.
+This can be used by the gprof gnu profiling tool or the
+gcov the gnu code coverage tool ( code coverage is a means of testing
+code quality by checking if all the code in an executable in exercised by
+a tester ).
+
+
+Using top to find out where processes are sleeping in the kernel
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+To do this copy the System.map from the root directory where
+the linux kernel was built to the /boot directory on your
+linux machine.
+Start top
+Now type fU<return>
+You should see a new field called WCHAN which
+tells you where each process is sleeping here is a typical output.
+
+ 6:59pm up 41 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
+28 processes: 27 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
+CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.8% idle
+Mem: 254900K av, 45976K used, 208924K free, 0K shrd, 28636K buff
+Swap: 0K av, 0K used, 0K free 8620K cached
+
+ PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE WCHAN STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
+ 750 root 12 0 848 848 700 do_select S 0 0.1 0.3 0:00 in.telnetd
+ 767 root 16 0 1140 1140 964 R 0 0.1 0.4 0:00 top
+ 1 root 8 0 212 212 180 do_select S 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 init
+ 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 down_inte SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kmcheck
+
+The time command
+----------------
+Another related command is the time command which gives you an indication
+of where a process is spending the majority of its time.
+e.g.
+time ping -c 5 nc
+outputs
+real 0m4.054s
+user 0m0.010s
+sys 0m0.010s
+
+Debugging under VM
+==================
+
+Notes
+-----
+Addresses & values in the VM debugger are always hex never decimal
+Address ranges are of the format <HexValue1>-<HexValue2> or <HexValue1>.<HexValue2>
+e.g. The address range 0x2000 to 0x3000 can be described described as
+2000-3000 or 2000.1000
+
+The VM Debugger is case insensitive.
+
+VM's strengths are usually other debuggers weaknesses you can get at any resource
+no matter how sensitive e.g. memory managment resources,change address translation
+in the PSW. For kernel hacking you will reap dividends if you get good at it.
+
+The VM Debugger displays operators but not operands, probably because some
+of it was written when memory was expensive & the programmer was probably proud that
+it fitted into 2k of memory & the programmers & didn't want to shock hardcore VM'ers by
+changing the interface :-), also the debugger displays useful information on the same line &
+the author of the code probably felt that it was a good idea not to go over
+the 80 columns on the screen.
+
+As some of you are probably in a panic now this isn't as unintuitive as it may seem
+as the 390 instructions are easy to decode mentally & you can make a good guess at a lot
+of them as all the operands are nibble ( half byte aligned ) & if you have an objdump listing
+also it is quite easy to follow, if you don't have an objdump listing keep a copy of
+the s/390 Reference Summary & look at between pages 2 & 7 or alternatively the
+s/390 principles of operation.
+e.g. even I can guess that
+0001AFF8' LR 180F CC 0
+is a ( load register ) lr r0,r15
+
+Also it is very easy to tell the length of a 390 instruction from the 2 most significant
+bits in the instruction ( not that this info is really useful except if you are trying to
+make sense of a hexdump of code ).
+Here is a table
+Bits Instruction Length
+------------------------------------------
+00 2 Bytes
+01 4 Bytes
+10 4 Bytes
+11 6 Bytes
+
+
+
+
+The debugger also displays other useful info on the same line such as the
+addresses being operated on destination addresses of branches & condition codes.
+e.g.
+00019736' AHI A7DAFF0E CC 1
+000198BA' BRC A7840004 -> 000198C2' CC 0
+000198CE' STM 900EF068 >> 0FA95E78 CC 2
+
+
+
+Useful VM debugger commands
+---------------------------
+
+I suppose I'd better mention this before I start
+to list the current active traces do
+Q TR
+there can be a maximum of 255 of these per set
+( more about trace sets later ).
+To stop traces issue a
+TR END.
+To delete a particular breakpoint issue
+TR DEL <breakpoint number>
+
+The PA1 key drops to CP mode so you can issue debugger commands,
+Doing alt c (on my 3270 console at least ) clears the screen.
+hitting b <enter> comes back to the running operating system
+from cp mode ( in our case linux ).
+It is typically useful to add shortcuts to your profile.exec file
+if you have one ( this is roughly equivalent to autoexec.bat in DOS ).
+file here are a few from mine.
+/* this gives me command history on issuing f12 */
+set pf12 retrieve
+/* this continues */
+set pf8 imm b
+/* goes to trace set a */
+set pf1 imm tr goto a
+/* goes to trace set b */
+set pf2 imm tr goto b
+/* goes to trace set c */
+set pf3 imm tr goto c
+
+
+
+Instruction Tracing
+-------------------
+Setting a simple breakpoint
+TR I PSWA <address>
+To debug a particular function try
+TR I R <function address range>
+TR I on its own will single step.
+TR I DATA <MNEMONIC> <OPTIONAL RANGE> will trace for particular mnemonics
+e.g.
+TR I DATA 4D R 0197BC.4000
+will trace for BAS'es ( opcode 4D ) in the range 0197BC.4000
+if you were inclined you could add traces for all branch instructions &
+suffix them with the run prefix so you would have a backtrace on screen
+when a program crashes.
+TR BR <INTO OR FROM> will trace branches into or out of an address.
+e.g.
+TR BR INTO 0 is often quite useful if a program is getting awkward & deciding
+to branch to 0 & crashing as this will stop at the address before in jumps to 0.
+TR I R <address range> RUN cmd d g
+single steps a range of addresses but stays running &
+displays the gprs on each step.
+
+
+
+Displaying & modifying Registers
+--------------------------------
+D G will display all the gprs
+Adding a extra G to all the commands is neccessary to access the full 64 bit
+content in VM on zSeries obviously this isn't required for access registers
+as these are still 32 bit.
+e.g. DGG instead of DG
+D X will display all the control registers
+D AR will display all the access registers
+D AR4-7 will display access registers 4 to 7
+CPU ALL D G will display the GRPS of all CPUS in the configuration
+D PSW will display the current PSW
+st PSW 2000 will put the value 2000 into the PSW &
+cause crash your machine.
+D PREFIX displays the prefix offset
+
+
+Displaying Memory
+-----------------
+To display memory mapped using the current PSW's mapping try
+D <range>
+To make VM display a message each time it hits a particular address & continue try
+D I<range> will disassemble/display a range of instructions.
+ST addr 32 bit word will store a 32 bit aligned address
+D T<range> will display the EBCDIC in an address ( if you are that way inclined )
+D R<range> will display real addresses ( without DAT ) but with prefixing.
+There are other complex options to display if you need to get at say home space
+but are in primary space the easiest thing to do is to temporarily
+modify the PSW to the other addressing mode, display the stuff & then
+restore it.
+
+
+
+Hints
+-----
+If you want to issue a debugger command without halting your virtual machine with the
+PA1 key try prefixing the command with #CP e.g.
+#cp tr i pswa 2000
+also suffixing most debugger commands with RUN will cause them not
+to stop just display the mnemonic at the current instruction on the console.
+If you have several breakpoints you want to put into your program &
+you get fed up of cross referencing with System.map
+you can do the following trick for several symbols.
+grep do_signal System.map
+which emits the following among other things
+0001f4e0 T do_signal
+now you can do
+
+TR I PSWA 0001f4e0 cmd msg * do_signal
+This sends a message to your own console each time do_signal is entered.
+( As an aside I wrote a perl script once which automatically generated a REXX
+script with breakpoints on every kernel procedure, this isn't a good idea
+because there are thousands of these routines & VM can only set 255 breakpoints
+at a time so you nearly had to spend as long pruning the file down as you would
+entering the msg's by hand ),however, the trick might be useful for a single object file.
+On linux'es 3270 emulator x3270 there is a very useful option under the file ment
+Save Screens In File this is very good of keeping a copy of traces.
+
+From CMS help <command name> will give you online help on a particular command.
+e.g.
+HELP DISPLAY
+
+Also CP has a file called profile.exec which automatically gets called
+on startup of CMS ( like autoexec.bat ), keeping on a DOS analogy session
+CP has a feature similar to doskey, it may be useful for you to
+use profile.exec to define some keystrokes.
+e.g.
+SET PF9 IMM B
+This does a single step in VM on pressing F8.
+SET PF10 ^
+This sets up the ^ key.
+which can be used for ^c (ctrl-c),^z (ctrl-z) which can't be typed directly into some 3270 consoles.
+SET PF11 ^-
+This types the starting keystrokes for a sysrq see SysRq below.
+SET PF12 RETRIEVE
+This retrieves command history on pressing F12.
+
+
+Sometimes in VM the display is set up to scroll automatically this
+can be very annoying if there are messages you wish to look at
+to stop this do
+TERM MORE 255 255
+This will nearly stop automatic screen updates, however it will
+cause a denial of service if lots of messages go to the 3270 console,
+so it would be foolish to use this as the default on a production machine.
+
+
+Tracing particular processes
+----------------------------
+The kernels text segment is intentionally at an address in memory that it will
+very seldom collide with text segments of user programs ( thanks Martin ),
+this simplifies debugging the kernel.
+However it is quite common for user processes to have addresses which collide
+this can make debugging a particular process under VM painful under normal
+circumstances as the process may change when doing a
+TR I R <address range>.
+Thankfully after reading VM's online help I figured out how to debug
+I particular process.
+
+Your first problem is to find the STD ( segment table designation )
+of the program you wish to debug.
+There are several ways you can do this here are a few
+1) objdump --syms <program to be debugged> | grep main
+To get the address of main in the program.
+tr i pswa <address of main>
+Start the program, if VM drops to CP on what looks like the entry
+point of the main function this is most likely the process you wish to debug.
+Now do a D X13 or D XG13 on zSeries.
+On 31 bit the STD is bits 1-19 ( the STO segment table origin )
+& 25-31 ( the STL segment table length ) of CR13.
+now type
+TR I R STD <CR13's value> 0.7fffffff
+e.g.
+TR I R STD 8F32E1FF 0.7fffffff
+Another very useful variation is
+TR STORE INTO STD <CR13's value> <address range>
+
+
+
+
+Tracing Program Exceptions
+--------------------------
+If you get a crash which says something like
+illegal operation or specification exception followed by a register dump
+You can restart linux & trace these using the tr prog <range or value> trace option.
+
+
+
+The most common ones you will normally be tracing for is
+1=operation exception
+2=privileged operation exception
+4=protection exception
+5=addressing exception
+6=specification exception
+10=segment translation exception
+11=page translation exception
+
+The full list of these is on page 22 of the current s/390 Reference Summary.
+e.g.
+tr prog 10 will trace segment translation exceptions.
+tr prog on its own will trace all program interruption codes.
+
+Trace Sets
+----------
+On starting VM you are initially in the INITIAL trace set.
+You can do a Q TR to verify this.
+If you have a complex tracing situation where you wish to wait for instance
+till a driver is open before you start tracing IO, but know in your
+heart that you are going to have to make several runs through the code till you
+have a clue whats going on.
+
+What you can do is
+TR I PSWA <Driver open address>
+hit b to continue till breakpoint
+reach the breakpoint
+now do your
+TR GOTO B
+TR IO 7c08-7c09 inst int run
+or whatever the IO channels you wish to trace are & hit b
+
+To got back to the initial trace set do
+TR GOTO INITIAL
+& the TR I PSWA <Driver open address> will be the only active breakpoint again.
+
+
+Tracing linux syscalls under VM
+-------------------------------
+Syscalls are implemented on Linux for S390 by the Supervisor call instruction (SVC) there 256
+possibilities of these as the instruction is made up of a 0xA opcode & the second byte being
+the syscall number. They are traced using the simple command.
+TR SVC <Optional value or range>
+the syscalls are defined in linux/include/asm-s390/unistd.h
+e.g. to trace all file opens just do
+TR SVC 5 ( as this is the syscall number of open )
+
+
+SMP Specific commands
+---------------------
+To find out how many cpus you have
+Q CPUS displays all the CPU's available to your virtual machine
+To find the cpu that the current cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do
+Q CPU to change the current cpu cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do
+CPU <desired cpu no>
+
+On a SMP guest issue a command to all CPUs try prefixing the command with cpu all.
+To issue a command to a particular cpu try cpu <cpu number> e.g.
+CPU 01 TR I R 2000.3000
+If you are running on a guest with several cpus & you have a IO related problem
+& cannot follow the flow of code but you know it isnt smp related.
+from the bash prompt issue
+shutdown -h now or halt.
+do a Q CPUS to find out how many cpus you have
+detach each one of them from cp except cpu 0
+by issueing a
+DETACH CPU 01-(number of cpus in configuration)
+& boot linux again.
+TR SIGP will trace inter processor signal processor instructions.
+DEFINE CPU 01-(number in configuration)
+will get your guests cpus back.
+
+
+Help for displaying ascii textstrings
+-------------------------------------
+As textstrings are cannot be displayed in ASCII under the VM debugger ( I love EBDIC too ) I have
+written this little program which will convert a command line of hex digits to ascii text
+which can be compiled under linux & you can copy the hex digits from your x3270 terminal to
+your xterm if you are debugging from a linuxbox.
+
+This is quite useful when looking at a parameter passed in as a text string
+under VM ( unless you are good at decoding ASCII in your head ).
+
+e.g. consider tracing an open syscall
+TR SVC 5
+We have stopped at a breakpoint
+000151B0' SVC 0A05 -> 0001909A' CC 0
+
+D 20.8 to check the SVC old psw in the prefix area & see was it from userspace
+( for the layout of the prefix area consult P18 of the s/390 390 Reference Summary
+if you have it available ).
+V00000020 070C2000 800151B2
+The problem state bit wasn't set & it's also too early in the boot sequence
+for it to be a userspace SVC if it was we would have to temporarily switch the
+psw to user space addressing so we could get at the first parameter of the open in
+gpr2.
+Next do a
+D G2
+GPR 2 = 00014CB4
+Now display what gpr2 is pointing to
+D 00014CB4.20
+V00014CB4 2F646576 2F636F6E 736F6C65 00001BF5
+V00014CC4 FC00014C B4001001 E0001000 B8070707
+Now copy the text till the first 00 hex ( which is the end of the string
+to an xterm & do hex2ascii on it.
+hex2ascii 2F646576 2F636F6E 736F6C65 00
+outputs
+Decoded Hex:=/ d e v / c o n s o l e 0x00
+We were opening the console device,
+
+You can compile the code below yourself for practice :-),
+/*
+ * hex2ascii.c
+ * a useful little tool for converting a hexadecimal command line to ascii
+ *
+ * Author(s): Denis Joseph Barrow (djbarrow@de.ibm.com,barrow_dj@yahoo.com)
+ * (C) 2000 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, IBM Corporation.
+ */
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(int argc,char *argv[])
+{
+ int cnt1,cnt2,len,toggle=0;
+ int startcnt=1;
+ unsigned char c,hex;
+
+ if(argc>1&&(strcmp(argv[1],"-a")==0))
+ startcnt=2;
+ printf("Decoded Hex:=");
+ for(cnt1=startcnt;cnt1<argc;cnt1++)
+ {
+ len=strlen(argv[cnt1]);
+ for(cnt2=0;cnt2<len;cnt2++)
+ {
+ c=argv[cnt1][cnt2];
+ if(c>='0'&&c<='9')
+ c=c-'0';
+ if(c>='A'&&c<='F')
+ c=c-'A'+10;
+ if(c>='a'&&c<='F')
+ c=c-'a'+10;
+ switch(toggle)
+ {
+ case 0:
+ hex=c<<4;
+ toggle=1;
+ break;
+ case 1:
+ hex+=c;
+ if(hex<32||hex>127)
+ {
+ if(startcnt==1)
+ printf("0x%02X ",(int)hex);
+ else
+ printf(".");
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ printf("%c",hex);
+ if(startcnt==1)
+ printf(" ");
+ }
+ toggle=0;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ printf("\n");
+}
+
+
+
+
+Stack tracing under VM
+----------------------
+A basic backtrace
+-----------------
+
+Here are the tricks I use 9 out of 10 times it works pretty well,
+
+When your backchain reaches a dead end
+--------------------------------------
+This can happen when an exception happens in the kernel & the kernel is entered twice
+if you reach the NULL pointer at the end of the back chain you should be
+able to sniff further back if you follow the following tricks.
+1) A kernel address should be easy to recognise since it is in
+primary space & the problem state bit isn't set & also
+The Hi bit of the address is set.
+2) Another backchain should also be easy to recognise since it is an
+address pointing to another address approximately 100 bytes or 0x70 hex
+behind the current stackpointer.
+
+
+Here is some practice.
+boot the kernel & hit PA1 at some random time
+d g to display the gprs, this should display something like
+GPR 0 = 00000001 00156018 0014359C 00000000
+GPR 4 = 00000001 001B8888 000003E0 00000000
+GPR 8 = 00100080 00100084 00000000 000FE000
+GPR 12 = 00010400 8001B2DC 8001B36A 000FFED8
+Note that GPR14 is a return address but as we are real men we are going to
+trace the stack.
+display 0x40 bytes after the stack pointer.
+
+V000FFED8 000FFF38 8001B838 80014C8E 000FFF38
+V000FFEE8 00000000 00000000 000003E0 00000000
+V000FFEF8 00100080 00100084 00000000 000FE000
+V000FFF08 00010400 8001B2DC 8001B36A 000FFED8
+
+
+Ah now look at whats in sp+56 (sp+0x38) this is 8001B36A our saved r14 if
+you look above at our stackframe & also agrees with GPR14.
+
+now backchain
+d 000FFF38.40
+we now are taking the contents of SP to get our first backchain.
+
+V000FFF38 000FFFA0 00000000 00014995 00147094
+V000FFF48 00147090 001470A0 000003E0 00000000
+V000FFF58 00100080 00100084 00000000 001BF1D0
+V000FFF68 00010400 800149BA 80014CA6 000FFF38
+
+This displays a 2nd return address of 80014CA6
+
+now do d 000FFFA0.40 for our 3rd backchain
+
+V000FFFA0 04B52002 0001107F 00000000 00000000
+V000FFFB0 00000000 00000000 FF000000 0001107F
+V000FFFC0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
+V000FFFD0 00010400 80010802 8001085A 000FFFA0
+
+
+our 3rd return address is 8001085A
+
+as the 04B52002 looks suspiciously like rubbish it is fair to assume that the kernel entry routines
+for the sake of optimisation dont set up a backchain.
+
+now look at System.map to see if the addresses make any sense.
+
+grep -i 0001b3 System.map
+outputs among other things
+0001b304 T cpu_idle
+so 8001B36A
+is cpu_idle+0x66 ( quiet the cpu is asleep, don't wake it )
+
+
+grep -i 00014 System.map
+produces among other things
+00014a78 T start_kernel
+so 0014CA6 is start_kernel+some hex number I can't add in my head.
+
+grep -i 00108 System.map
+this produces
+00010800 T _stext
+so 8001085A is _stext+0x5a
+
+Congrats you've done your first backchain.
+
+
+
+s/390 & zSeries IO Overview
+===========================
+
+I am not going to give a course in 390 IO architecture as this would take me quite a
+while & I'm no expert. Instead I'll give a 390 IO architecture summary for Dummies if you have
+the s/390 principles of operation available read this instead. If nothing else you may find a few
+useful keywords in here & be able to use them on a web search engine like altavista to find
+more useful information.
+
+Unlike other bus architectures modern 390 systems do their IO using mostly
+fibre optics & devices such as tapes & disks can be shared between several mainframes,
+also S390 can support upto 65536 devices while a high end PC based system might be choking
+with around 64. Here is some of the common IO terminology
+
+Subchannel:
+This is the logical number most IO commands use to talk to an IO device there can be upto
+0x10000 (65536) of these in a configuration typically there is a few hundred. Under VM
+for simplicity they are allocated contiguously, however on the native hardware they are not
+they typically stay consistent between boots provided no new hardware is inserted or removed.
+Under Linux for 390 we use these as IRQ's & also when issuing an IO command (CLEAR SUBCHANNEL,
+HALT SUBCHANNEL,MODIFY SUBCHANNEL,RESUME SUBCHANNEL,START SUBCHANNEL,STORE SUBCHANNEL &
+TEST SUBCHANNEL ) we use this as the ID of the device we wish to talk to, the most
+important of these instructions are START SUBCHANNEL ( to start IO ), TEST SUBCHANNEL ( to check
+whether the IO completed successfully ), & HALT SUBCHANNEL ( to kill IO ), a subchannel
+can have up to 8 channel paths to a device this offers redunancy if one is not available.
+
+
+Device Number:
+This number remains static & Is closely tied to the hardware, there are 65536 of these
+also they are made up of a CHPID ( Channel Path ID, the most significant 8 bits )
+& another lsb 8 bits. These remain static even if more devices are inserted or removed
+from the hardware, there is a 1 to 1 mapping between Subchannels & Device Numbers provided
+devices arent inserted or removed.
+
+Channel Control Words:
+CCWS are linked lists of instructions initially pointed to by an operation request block (ORB),
+which is initially given to Start Subchannel (SSCH) command along with the subchannel number
+for the IO subsystem to process while the CPU continues executing normal code.
+These come in two flavours, Format 0 ( 24 bit for backward )
+compatibility & Format 1 ( 31 bit ). These are typically used to issue read & write
+( & many other instructions ) they consist of a length field & an absolute address field.
+For each IO typically get 1 or 2 interrupts one for channel end ( primary status ) when the
+channel is idle & the second for device end ( secondary status ) sometimes you get both
+concurrently, you check how the IO went on by issueing a TEST SUBCHANNEL at each interrupt,
+from which you receive an Interruption response block (IRB). If you get channel & device end
+status in the IRB without channel checks etc. your IO probably went okay. If you didn't you
+probably need a doctorto examine the IRB & extended status word etc.
+If an error occurs more sophistocated control units have a facitity known as
+concurrent sense this means that if an error occurs Extended sense information will
+be presented in the Extended status word in the IRB if not you have to issue a
+subsequent SENSE CCW command after the test subchannel.
+
+
+TPI( Test pending interrupt) can also be used for polled IO but in multitasking multiprocessor
+systems it isn't recommended except for checking special cases ( i.e. non looping checks for
+pending IO etc. ).
+
+Store Subchannel & Modify Subchannel can be used to examine & modify operating characteristics
+of a subchannel ( e.g. channel paths ).
+
+Other IO related Terms:
+Sysplex: S390's Clustering Technology
+QDIO: S390's new high speed IO architecture to support devices such as gigabit ethernet,
+this architecture is also designed to be forward compatible with up & coming 64 bit machines.
+
+
+General Concepts
+
+Input Output Processors (IOP's) are responsible for communicating between
+the mainframe CPU's & the channel & relieve the mainframe CPU's from the
+burden of communicating with IO devices directly, this allows the CPU's to
+concentrate on data processing.
+
+IOP's can use one or more links ( known as channel paths ) to talk to each
+IO device. It first checks for path availability & chooses an available one,
+then starts ( & sometimes terminates IO ).
+There are two types of channel path ESCON & the Paralell IO interface.
+
+IO devices are attached to control units, control units provide the
+logic to interface the channel paths & channel path IO protocols to
+the IO devices, they can be integrated with the devices or housed separately
+& often talk to several similar devices ( typical examples would be raid
+controllers or a control unit which connects to 1000 3270 terminals ).
+
+
+ +---------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +----------+ +----------+ |
+ | | CPU | | CPU | | CPU | | CPU | | Main | | Expanded | |
+ | | | | | | | | | | Memory | | Storage | |
+ | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +----------+ +----------+ |
+ |---------------------------------------------------------------+
+ | IOP | IOP | IOP |
+ |---------------------------------------------------------------
+ | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C |
+ ----------------------------------------------------------------
+ || ||
+ || Bus & Tag Channel Path || ESCON
+ || ====================== || Channel
+ || || || || Path
+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
+ | | | | | |
+ | CU | | CU | | CU |
+ | | | | | |
+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
+ | | | | |
++----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
+|I/O Device| |I/O Device| |I/O Device| |I/O Device| |I/O Device|
++----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+ +----------+
+ CPU = Central Processing Unit
+ C = Channel
+ IOP = IP Processor
+ CU = Control Unit
+
+The 390 IO systems come in 2 flavours the current 390 machines support both
+
+The Older 360 & 370 Interface,sometimes called the paralell I/O interface,
+sometimes called Bus-and Tag & sometimes Original Equipment Manufacturers
+Interface (OEMI).
+
+This byte wide paralell channel path/bus has parity & data on the "Bus" cable
+& control lines on the "Tag" cable. These can operate in byte multiplex mode for
+sharing between several slow devices or burst mode & monopolize the channel for the
+whole burst. Upto 256 devices can be addressed on one of these cables. These cables are
+about one inch in diameter. The maximum unextended length supported by these cables is
+125 Meters but this can be extended up to 2km with a fibre optic channel extended
+such as a 3044. The maximum burst speed supported is 4.5 megabytes per second however
+some really old processors support only transfer rates of 3.0, 2.0 & 1.0 MB/sec.
+One of these paths can be daisy chained to up to 8 control units.
+
+
+ESCON if fibre optic it is also called FICON
+Was introduced by IBM in 1990. Has 2 fibre optic cables & uses either leds or lasers
+for communication at a signaling rate of upto 200 megabits/sec. As 10bits are transferred
+for every 8 bits info this drops to 160 megabits/sec & to 18.6 Megabytes/sec once
+control info & CRC are added. ESCON only operates in burst mode.
+
+ESCONs typical max cable length is 3km for the led version & 20km for the laser version
+known as XDF ( extended distance facility ). This can be further extended by using an
+ESCON director which triples the above mentioned ranges. Unlike Bus & Tag as ESCON is
+serial it uses a packet switching architecture the standard Bus & Tag control protocol
+is however present within the packets. Upto 256 devices can be attached to each control
+unit that uses one of these interfaces.
+
+Common 390 Devices include:
+Network adapters typically OSA2,3172's,2116's & OSA-E gigabit ethernet adapters,
+Consoles 3270 & 3215 ( a teletype emulated under linux for a line mode console ).
+DASD's direct access storage devices ( otherwise known as hard disks ).
+Tape Drives.
+CTC ( Channel to Channel Adapters ),
+ESCON or Paralell Cables used as a very high speed serial link
+between 2 machines. We use 2 cables under linux to do a bi-directional serial link.
+
+
+Debugging IO on s/390 & zSeries under VM
+=========================================
+
+Now we are ready to go on with IO tracing commands under VM
+
+A few self explanatory queries:
+Q OSA
+Q CTC
+Q DISK
+Q DASD
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Q OSA on my machine returns
+OSA 7C08 ON OSA 7C08 SUBCHANNEL = 0000
+OSA 7C09 ON OSA 7C09 SUBCHANNEL = 0001
+OSA 7C14 ON OSA 7C14 SUBCHANNEL = 0002
+OSA 7C15 ON OSA 7C15 SUBCHANNEL = 0003
+
+If you have a guest with certain priviliges you may be able to see devices
+which don't belong to you to avoid this do add the option V.
+e.g.
+Q V OSA
+
+Now using the device numbers returned by this command we will
+Trace the io starting up on the first device 7c08 & 7c09
+In our simplest case we can trace the
+start subchannels
+like TR SSCH 7C08-7C09
+or the halt subchannels
+or TR HSCH 7C08-7C09
+MSCH's ,STSCH's I think you can guess the rest
+
+Ingo's favourite trick is tracing all the IO's & CCWS & spooling them into the reader of another
+VM guest so he can ftp the logfile back to his own machine.I'll do a small bit of this & give you
+ a look at the output.
+
+1) Spool stdout to VM reader
+SP PRT TO (another vm guest ) or * for the local vm guest
+2) Fill the reader with the trace
+TR IO 7c08-7c09 INST INT CCW PRT RUN
+3) Start up linux
+i 00c
+4) Finish the trace
+TR END
+5) close the reader
+C PRT
+6) list reader contents
+RDRLIST
+7) copy it to linux4's minidisk
+RECEIVE / LOG TXT A1 ( replace
+8)
+filel & press F11 to look at it
+You should see someting like.
+
+00020942' SSCH B2334000 0048813C CC 0 SCH 0000 DEV 7C08
+ CPA 000FFDF0 PARM 00E2C9C4 KEY 0 FPI C0 LPM 80
+ CCW 000FFDF0 E4200100 00487FE8 0000 E4240100 ........
+ IDAL 43D8AFE8
+ IDAL 0FB76000
+00020B0A' I/O DEV 7C08 -> 000197BC' SCH 0000 PARM 00E2C9C4
+00021628' TSCH B2354000 >> 00488164 CC 0 SCH 0000 DEV 7C08
+ CCWA 000FFDF8 DEV STS 0C SCH STS 00 CNT 00EC
+ KEY 0 FPI C0 CC 0 CTLS 4007
+00022238' STSCH B2344000 >> 00488108 CC 0 SCH 0000 DEV 7C08
+
+If you don't like messing up your readed ( because you possibly booted from it )
+you can alternatively spool it to another readers guest.
+
+
+Other common VM device related commands
+---------------------------------------------
+These commands are listed only because they have
+been of use to me in the past & may be of use to
+you too. For more complete info on each of the commands
+use type HELP <command> from CMS.
+detaching devices
+DET <devno range>
+ATT <devno range> <guest>
+attach a device to guest * for your own guest
+READY <devno> cause VM to issue a fake interrupt.
+
+The VARY command is normally only available to VM administrators.
+VARY ON PATH <path> TO <devno range>
+VARY OFF PATH <PATH> FROM <devno range>
+This is used to switch on or off channel paths to devices.
+
+Q CHPID <channel path ID>
+This displays state of devices using this channel path
+D SCHIB <subchannel>
+This displays the subchannel information SCHIB block for the device.
+this I believe is also only available to administrators.
+DEFINE CTC <devno>
+defines a virtual CTC channel to channel connection
+2 need to be defined on each guest for the CTC driver to use.
+COUPLE devno userid remote devno
+Joins a local virtual device to a remote virtual device
+( commonly used for the CTC driver ).
+
+Building a VM ramdisk under CMS which linux can use
+def vfb-<blocksize> <subchannel> <number blocks>
+blocksize is commonly 4096 for linux.
+Formatting it
+format <subchannel> <driver letter e.g. x> (blksize <blocksize>
+
+Sharing a disk between multiple guests
+LINK userid devno1 devno2 mode password
+
+
+
+GDB on S390
+===========
+N.B. if compiling for debugging gdb works better without optimisation
+( see Compiling programs for debugging )
+
+invocation
+----------
+gdb <victim program> <optional corefile>
+
+Online help
+-----------
+help: gives help on commands
+e.g.
+help
+help display
+Note gdb's online help is very good use it.
+
+
+Assembly
+--------
+info registers: displays registers other than floating point.
+info all-registers: displays floating points as well.
+disassemble: dissassembles
+e.g.
+disassemble without parameters will disassemble the current function
+disassemble $pc $pc+10
+
+Viewing & modifying variables
+-----------------------------
+print or p: displays variable or register
+e.g. p/x $sp will display the stack pointer
+
+display: prints variable or register each time program stops
+e.g.
+display/x $pc will display the program counter
+display argc
+
+undisplay : undo's display's
+
+info breakpoints: shows all current breakpoints
+
+info stack: shows stack back trace ( if this dosent work too well, I'll show you the
+stacktrace by hand below ).
+
+info locals: displays local variables.
+
+info args: display current procedure arguments.
+
+set args: will set argc & argv each time the victim program is invoked.
+
+set <variable>=value
+set argc=100
+set $pc=0
+
+
+
+Modifying execution
+-------------------
+step: steps n lines of sourcecode
+step steps 1 line.
+step 100 steps 100 lines of code.
+
+next: like step except this will not step into subroutines
+
+stepi: steps a single machine code instruction.
+e.g. stepi 100
+
+nexti: steps a single machine code instruction but will not step into subroutines.
+
+finish: will run until exit of the current routine
+
+run: (re)starts a program
+
+cont: continues a program
+
+quit: exits gdb.
+
+
+breakpoints
+------------
+
+break
+sets a breakpoint
+e.g.
+
+break main
+
+break *$pc
+
+break *0x400618
+
+heres a really useful one for large programs
+rbr
+Set a breakpoint for all functions matching REGEXP
+e.g.
+rbr 390
+will set a breakpoint with all functions with 390 in their name.
+
+info breakpoints
+lists all breakpoints
+
+delete: delete breakpoint by number or delete them all
+e.g.
+delete 1 will delete the first breakpoint
+delete will delete them all
+
+watch: This will set a watchpoint ( usually hardware assisted ),
+This will watch a variable till it changes
+e.g.
+watch cnt, will watch the variable cnt till it changes.
+As an aside unfortunately gdb's, architecture independent watchpoint code
+is inconsistent & not very good, watchpoints usually work but not always.
+
+info watchpoints: Display currently active watchpoints
+
+condition: ( another useful one )
+Specify breakpoint number N to break only if COND is true.
+Usage is `condition N COND', where N is an integer and COND is an
+expression to be evaluated whenever breakpoint N is reached.
+
+
+
+User defined functions/macros
+-----------------------------
+define: ( Note this is very very useful,simple & powerful )
+usage define <name> <list of commands> end
+
+examples which you should consider putting into .gdbinit in your home directory
+define d
+stepi
+disassemble $pc $pc+10
+end
+
+define e
+nexti
+disassemble $pc $pc+10
+end
+
+
+Other hard to classify stuff
+----------------------------
+signal n:
+sends the victim program a signal.
+e.g. signal 3 will send a SIGQUIT.
+
+info signals:
+what gdb does when the victim receives certain signals.
+
+list:
+e.g.
+list lists current function source
+list 1,10 list first 10 lines of curret file.
+list test.c:1,10
+
+
+directory:
+Adds directories to be searched for source if gdb cannot find the source.
+(note it is a bit sensititive about slashes )
+e.g. To add the root of the filesystem to the searchpath do
+directory //
+
+
+call <function>
+This calls a function in the victim program, this is pretty powerful
+e.g.
+(gdb) call printf("hello world")
+outputs:
+$1 = 11
+
+You might now be thinking that the line above didn't work, something extra had to be done.
+(gdb) call fflush(stdout)
+hello world$2 = 0
+As an aside the debugger also calls malloc & free under the hood
+to make space for the "hello world" string.
+
+
+
+hints
+-----
+1) command completion works just like bash
+( if you are a bad typist like me this really helps )
+e.g. hit br <TAB> & cursor up & down :-).
+
+2) if you have a debugging problem that takes a few steps to recreate
+put the steps into a file called .gdbinit in your current working directory
+if you have defined a few extra useful user defined commands put these in
+your home directory & they will be read each time gdb is launched.
+
+A typical .gdbinit file might be.
+break main
+run
+break runtime_exception
+cont
+
+
+stack chaining in gdb by hand
+-----------------------------
+This is done using a the same trick described for VM
+p/x (*($sp+56))&0x7fffffff get the first backchain.
+
+For zSeries do
+p/x *($sp+112) i.e. replace 56 with 112 & ignore the &0x7fffffff
+in the macros below.
+
+this outputs
+$5 = 0x528f18
+on my machine.
+Now you can use
+info symbol (*($sp+56))&0x7fffffff
+you might see something like.
+rl_getc + 36 in section .text telling you what is located at address 0x528f18
+Now do.
+p/x (*(*$sp+56))&0x7fffffff
+This outputs
+$6 = 0x528ed0
+Now do.
+info symbol (*(*$sp+56))&0x7fffffff
+rl_read_key + 180 in section .text
+now do
+p/x (*(**$sp+56))&0x7fffffff
+& so on.
+
+Disassembling instructions without debug info
+---------------------------------------------
+gdb typically compains if there is a lack of debugging
+symbols in the disassemble command with
+"No function contains specified address." to get around
+this do
+x/<number lines to disassemble>xi <address>
+e.g.
+x/20xi 0x400730
+
+
+
+Note: Remember gdb has history just like bash you don't need to retype the
+whole line just use the up & down arrows.
+
+
+
+For more info
+-------------
+From your linuxbox do
+man gdb or info gdb.
+
+core dumps
+----------
+What a core dump ?,
+A core dump is a file generated by the kernel ( if allowed ) which contains the registers,
+& all active pages of the program which has crashed.
+From this file gdb will allow you to look at the registers & stack trace & memory of the
+program as if it just crashed on your system, it is usually called core & created in the
+current working directory.
+This is very useful in that a customer can mail a core dump to a technical support department
+& the technical support department can reconstruct what happened.
+Provided the have an indentical copy of this program with debugging symbols compiled in &
+the source base of this build is available.
+In short it is far more useful than something like a crash log could ever hope to be.
+
+In theory all that is missing to restart a core dumped program is a kernel patch which
+will do the following.
+1) Make a new kernel task structure
+2) Reload all the dumped pages back into the kernels memory managment structures.
+3) Do the required clock fixups
+4) Get all files & network connections for the process back into an identical state ( really difficult ).
+5) A few more difficult things I haven't thought of.
+
+
+
+Why have I never seen one ?.
+Probably because you haven't used the command
+ulimit -c unlimited in bash
+to allow core dumps, now do
+ulimit -a
+to verify that the limit was accepted.
+
+A sample core dump
+To create this I'm going to do
+ulimit -c unlimited
+gdb
+to launch gdb (my victim app. ) now be bad & do the following from another
+telnet/xterm session to the same machine
+ps -aux | grep gdb
+kill -SIGSEGV <gdb's pid>
+or alternatively use killall -SIGSEGV gdb if you have the killall command.
+Now look at the core dump.
+./gdb ./gdb core
+Displays the following
+GNU gdb 4.18
+Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
+welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
+Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
+There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details.
+This GDB was configured as "s390-ibm-linux"...
+Core was generated by `./gdb'.
+Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
+Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4...done.
+Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
+Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
+Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
+#0 0x40126d1a in read () from /lib/libc.so.6
+Setting up the environment for debugging gdb.
+Breakpoint 1 at 0x4dc6f8: file utils.c, line 471.
+Breakpoint 2 at 0x4d87a4: file top.c, line 2609.
+(top-gdb) info stack
+#0 0x40126d1a in read () from /lib/libc.so.6
+#1 0x528f26 in rl_getc (stream=0x7ffffde8) at input.c:402
+#2 0x528ed0 in rl_read_key () at input.c:381
+#3 0x5167e6 in readline_internal_char () at readline.c:454
+#4 0x5168ee in readline_internal_charloop () at readline.c:507
+#5 0x51692c in readline_internal () at readline.c:521
+#6 0x5164fe in readline (prompt=0x7ffff810 "\177x\177\177x")
+ at readline.c:349
+#7 0x4d7a8a in command_line_input (prrompt=0x564420 "(gdb) ", repeat=1,
+ annotation_suffix=0x4d6b44 "prompt") at top.c:2091
+#8 0x4d6cf0 in command_loop () at top.c:1345
+#9 0x4e25bc in main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffffdf4) at main.c:635
+
+
+LDD
+===
+This is a program which lists the shared libraries which a library needs,
+Note you also get the relocations of the shared library text segments which
+help when using objdump --source.
+e.g.
+ ldd ./gdb
+outputs
+libncurses.so.4 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x40018000)
+libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4005e000)
+libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40084000)
+/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
+
+
+Debugging shared libraries
+==========================
+Most programs use shared libraries, however it can be very painful
+when you single step instruction into a function like printf for the
+first time & you end up in functions like _dl_runtime_resolve this is
+the ld.so doing lazy binding, lazy binding is a concept in ELF where
+shared library functions are not loaded into memory unless they are
+actually used, great for saving memory but a pain to debug.
+To get around this either relink the program -static or exit gdb type
+export LD_BIND_NOW=true this will stop lazy binding & restart the gdb'ing
+the program in question.
+
+
+
+Debugging modules
+=================
+As modules are dynamically loaded into the kernel their address can be
+anywhere to get around this use the -m option with insmod to emit a load
+map which can be piped into a file if required.
+
+The proc file system
+====================
+What is it ?.
+It is a filesystem created by the kernel with files which are created on demand
+by the kernel if read, or can be used to modify kernel parameters,
+it is a powerful concept.
+
+e.g.
+
+cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
+On my machine outputs
+0
+telling me ip_forwarding is not on to switch it on I can do
+echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
+cat it again
+cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
+On my machine now outputs
+1
+IP forwarding is on.
+There is a lot of useful info in here best found by going in & having a look around,
+so I'll take you through some entries I consider important.
+
+All the processes running on the machine have there own entry defined by
+/proc/<pid>
+So lets have a look at the init process
+cd /proc/1
+
+cat cmdline
+emits
+init [2]
+
+cd /proc/1/fd
+This contains numerical entries of all the open files,
+some of these you can cat e.g. stdout (2)
+
+cat /proc/29/maps
+on my machine emits
+
+00400000-00478000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 4103 /bin/bash
+00478000-0047e000 rw-p 00077000 5f:00 4103 /bin/bash
+0047e000-00492000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
+40000000-40015000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 14382 /lib/ld-2.1.2.so
+40015000-40016000 rw-p 00014000 5f:00 14382 /lib/ld-2.1.2.so
+40016000-40017000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
+40017000-40018000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
+40018000-4001b000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 14435 /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
+4001b000-4001c000 rw-p 00002000 5f:00 14435 /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
+4001c000-4010d000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 14387 /lib/libc-2.1.2.so
+4010d000-40111000 rw-p 000f0000 5f:00 14387 /lib/libc-2.1.2.so
+40111000-40114000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
+40114000-4011e000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 14408 /lib/libnss_files-2.1.2.so
+4011e000-4011f000 rw-p 00009000 5f:00 14408 /lib/libnss_files-2.1.2.so
+7fffd000-80000000 rwxp ffffe000 00:00 0
+
+
+Showing us the shared libraries init uses where they are in memory
+& memory access permissions for each virtual memory area.
+
+/proc/1/cwd is a softlink to the current working directory.
+/proc/1/root is the root of the filesystem for this process.
+
+/proc/1/mem is the current running processes memory which you
+can read & write to like a file.
+strace uses this sometimes as it is a bit faster than the
+rather inefficent ptrace interface for peeking at DATA.
+
+
+cat status
+
+Name: init
+State: S (sleeping)
+Pid: 1
+PPid: 0
+Uid: 0 0 0 0
+Gid: 0 0 0 0
+Groups:
+VmSize: 408 kB
+VmLck: 0 kB
+VmRSS: 208 kB
+VmData: 24 kB
+VmStk: 8 kB
+VmExe: 368 kB
+VmLib: 0 kB
+SigPnd: 0000000000000000
+SigBlk: 0000000000000000
+SigIgn: 7fffffffd7f0d8fc
+SigCgt: 00000000280b2603
+CapInh: 00000000fffffeff
+CapPrm: 00000000ffffffff
+CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
+
+User PSW: 070de000 80414146
+task: 004b6000 tss: 004b62d8 ksp: 004b7ca8 pt_regs: 004b7f68
+User GPRS:
+00000400 00000000 0000000b 7ffffa90
+00000000 00000000 00000000 0045d9f4
+0045cafc 7ffffa90 7fffff18 0045cb08
+00010400 804039e8 80403af8 7ffff8b0
+User ACRS:
+00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
+00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000
+00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
+00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
+Kernel BackChain CallChain BackChain CallChain
+ 004b7ca8 8002bd0c 004b7d18 8002b92c
+ 004b7db8 8005cd50 004b7e38 8005d12a
+ 004b7f08 80019114
+Showing among other things memory usage & status of some signals &
+the processes'es registers from the kernel task_structure
+as well as a backchain which may be useful if a process crashes
+in the kernel for some unknown reason.
+
+Some driver debugging techniques
+================================
+high level debugging network drivers
+------------------------------------
+ifconfig is a quite useful command
+it gives the current state of network drivers.
+
+If you suspect your network device driver is dead
+one way to check is type
+ifconfig <network device>
+e.g. tr0
+You should see something like
+tr0 Link encap:16/4 Mbps Token Ring (New) HWaddr 00:04:AC:20:8E:48
+ inet addr:9.164.185.132 Bcast:9.164.191.255 Mask:255.255.224.0
+ UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:2000 Metric:1
+ RX packets:246134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
+ TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
+ collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
+
+if the device doesn't say up
+try
+/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
+( this starts the network stack & hopefully calls ifconfig tr0 up ).
+ifconfig looks at the output of /proc/net/dev & presents it in a more presentable form
+Now ping the device from a machine in the same subnet.
+if the RX packets count & TX packets counts don't increment you probably
+have problems.
+next
+cat /proc/net/arp
+Do you see any hardware addresses in the cache if not you may have problems.
+Next try
+ping -c 5 <broadcast_addr> i.e. the Bcast field above in the output of
+ifconfig. Do you see any replies from machines other than the local machine
+if not you may have problems. also if the TX packets count in ifconfig
+hasn't incremented either you have serious problems in your driver
+(e.g. the txbusy field of the network device being stuck on )
+or you may have multiple network devices connected.
+
+
+chandev
+-------
+There is a new device layer for channel devices, some
+drivers e.g. lcs are registered with this layer.
+If the device uses the channel device layer you'll be
+able to find what interupts it uses & the current state
+of the device.
+See the manpage chandev.8 &type cat /proc/chandev for more info.
+
+
+
+Starting points for debugging scripting languages etc.
+======================================================
+
+bash/sh
+
+bash -x <scriptname>
+e.g. bash -x /usr/bin/bashbug
+displays the following lines as it executes them.
++ MACHINE=i586
++ OS=linux-gnu
++ CC=gcc
++ CFLAGS= -DPROGRAM='bash' -DHOSTTYPE='i586' -DOSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DMACHTYPE='i586-pc-linux-gnu' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./lib -O2 -pipe
++ RELEASE=2.01
++ PATCHLEVEL=1
++ RELSTATUS=release
++ MACHTYPE=i586-pc-linux-gnu
+
+perl -d <scriptname> runs the perlscript in a fully intercative debugger
+<like gdb>.
+Type 'h' in the debugger for help.
+
+for debugging java type
+jdb <filename> another fully interactive gdb style debugger.
+& type ? in the debugger for help.
+
+
+Debugging Drivers
+=================
+Some of our drivers now support a debug logging feature in
+/proc/s390dbf see s390dbf.txt in the linux/Documentation directory
+for more info.
+e.g.
+to switch on lcs debugging
+echo 5 > /proc/s390dbf/lcs/level
+& then after the error occured.
+cat /proc/s390dbf/lcs/sprintf >/logfile
+the logfile now contains some information which may help
+tech support resolve a problem in the field.
+
+If you have VM look at the chapter Debugging IO on S390 under VM.
+
+
+
+
+Tools soon to be available
+==========================
+
+Dumptool & Lcrash
+-----------------
+Michael Holzheu & others here at IBM have a fairly mature port of
+SGI's lcrash tool which allows one to look at kernel structures in a
+running kernel.
+
+It also complements a tool called dumptool which dumps all the kernels
+memory pages & registers to either a tape or a disk.
+This can be used by tech support or an ambitous end user do
+post mortem debugging of a machine like gdb core dumps.
+
+Going into how to use this tool in detail will be explained
+in other documentation supplied by IBM & the lcrash homepage
+http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/.
+
+How they work
+-------------
+Lcrash is a perfectly normal application
+however it requires an additional file.
+It is built using a patch to the kernel source base.
+
+
+Debugging a live system it uses /dev/mem
+alternatively for post mortem debugging it uses the data
+collected by dumptool.
+
+
+Ltrace
+------
+We also have a tool called ltrace in our CVS repository
+no plans on a delivery date yet.
+ltrace is a superset of strace in that it also allows
+tracing of shared libraries calls as well as system calls,
+man ltrace for more info.
+
+SysRq
+=====
+This is now supported by linux for s/390 & zSeries.
+To enable it do compile the kernel with
+Kernel Hacking -> Magic SysRq Key Enabled
+echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.
+On 390 all commands are prefixed with
+^-
+e.g.
+^-t will show tasks.
+^-? or some unknown command will display help.
+The sysrq key reading is very picky ( I have to type the keys in an
+ xterm session & paste them into the x3270 console )
+& it may be wise to predefine the keys as described in the VM hints above
+
+This is particularly useful for syncing disks unmounting & rebooting
+if the machine gets partially hung.
+
+Read Documentation/sysrq.txt for more info
+
+References:
+===========
+Enterprise Systems Architecture Reference Summary
+Enterprise Systems Architecture Principles of Operation
+Hartmut Penners s390 stack frame sheet.
+IBM Mainframe Channel Attachment a technology brief from a CISCO webpage
+Various bits of man & info pages of Linux.
+Linux & GDB source.
+Various info & man pages.
+CMS Help on tracing commands.
+Linux for s/390 Elf Application Binary Interface
+Linux for zSeries Elf Application Binary Interface ( Both Highly Recommended )
+z/Architecture Principles of Operation SA22-7832-00
+Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Reference Summary SA22-7209-01 & the
+Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Principles of Operation SA22-7201-05
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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