Re: GDB, pthreads, and kernel threads

[John Clark]

Nix wrote:

> On 18 May 2005, John Clark announced authoritatively:
>  
>
> > Most of my work has been in the kernel and I had not paid attention to
> > user 'threads'. However, I have at the moment to a need to debug a
> > user 'pthread' based applicaiton, that I may want to move into the kernel.
> >
> > However, I can't seem to figure out how to get GDB to debug my user
> > pthreads app. What is the correct setup to debug pthreads based applications
> > now that it seems that pthreads implementation generates processes/threads
> > in the kernel.
> >    
>
> Use a recent GDB (>=6.2) and things should just work. (At least, they do
> for me.)
>  

I built the latest GDB-6.3, as well as rebuilt glibc-2.3.5, and now when 
I step through the
main code line, which creates the tasks (I'm using the pthreads.c from 
the GDB testsuite), I do
not getany output from:

info threads

When I set a break point on the entry point of one of the 
soon-to-be-created threads,
I get a diagnostic message:

Program terminated with signal SIGTRAP, Trace/Breakpoint trap.
The program no longer exists.


On the machine being used to debug the kernel is: 2.6.5.

Is there any problems with that kernel, or should I upgrade to a more 
recent vintage
version?

Thanks
John Clark

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