enable basic mozilla rr support

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Ciro Santilli 六四事件 法轮功
2019-08-28 00:00:00 +00:00
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@@ -9815,6 +9815,33 @@ In graphic mode, make sure that you never click inside the QEMU graphic while de
You can still send key presses to QEMU however even without the mouse capture, just either click on the title bar, or alt tab to give it focus.
==== Reverse debug the emulator
While step debugging any complext program, you always end up feeling the need to step in reverse to reach the last call to some function before the failure point.
While GDB "has" this feature, it is just too broken to be usable, and so we expose the amazing Mozilla RR tool conveniently in this repo: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1470434/how-does-reverse-debugging-work/53063242#53063242
Before the first usage:
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echo 'kernel.perf_event_paranoid=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p
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Then use it as:
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./run --debug-vm-rr
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Once you are left in the RR GDB shell, just continue:
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continue
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you can now reiably use reverse debugging commands such as `reverse-continue` and `reverse-next`!
==== Debug gem5 Python scripts
Start pdb at the first instruction: