Confused about how to apply add-symbol-file in gdb
Chan Kim
ckim at etri.re.kr
Mon Jul 18 04:43:16 EDT 2022
Hello all,
I thought I know how to apply add-symbol-file command in gdb but now I'm
confused.
I'm using qemu to test booting linux using u-boot. (arm64)
I've loaded u-boot at 0x4000000 and loaded linux Image (binary, not elf) at
0x80010000. The dtb is loaded at 0x80000000.
(because qemu loads the dtb file at the first address of RAM (which is
0x80000000) I moved kernel image to 0x80010000)
After the PC jumps to linux, I can follow the source while the PC value uses
physical address.
I think this is possible that I gave gdb this command.
add-symbol-file vmlinux -s .head.text 0x80010000 -s .text 0x80020000
(using readelf -e vmlinux command, I can see the section offsets relative to
the start of the Image file. The output starts like this.
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name Type Address Offset
Size EntSize Flags Link Info Align
[ 0] NULL 0000000000000000 00000000
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0 0 0
[ 1] .head.text PROGBITS ffffffc010000000 00010000
0000000000010000 0000000000000000 AX 0 0 65536
[ 2] .text PROGBITS ffffffc010010000 00020000
0000000000aa4dc8 0000000000000008 AX 0 0 2048
[ 3] .got.plt PROGBITS ffffffc010ab4dc8 00ac4dc8
0000000000000018 0000000000000008 WA 0 0 8
[ 4] .rodata PROGBITS ffffffc010ac0000 00ad0000
0000000000645018 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 4096
[ 5] .pci_fixup PROGBITS ffffffc011105020 01115020
00000000000025e0 0000000000000000 A 0 0 16
[ 6] __ksymtab PROGBITS ffffffc011107600 01117600
000000000000b3b8 0000000000000000 A 0 0 4
[ 7] __ksymtab_gpl PROGBITS ffffffc0111129b8 011229b8
...
Now, at the end of __primary_switch function, the PC value becomes virtual.
But I can't follow kernel source from that point.
Until now, I have placed kernel Image at 0x80000000 and dtb was at
0x82800000 and just by giving "add-symbol-file vmlinux" again, there was no
problem following the kernel source in virtual address.
How should I give the add-symbol-file command when the Image is now at
0x80010000??
Any comment welcome.
Thank you.
Chan Kim
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