Connect 2 mips simulator..

Connect 2 mips simulator..

[Zampieri Marco]

Hallo all,
Where I can find developer documentation to understand how the simulator
and gdb dialog. Infact, I must know how write a little program that
connect to mips simulator and drive its functionality. I search to
develop a comunication system between 2 or plus mips simulator. This
permit me to send datas between 2 or plus process crosscompiled for mips
execute in
your simulator.
Can you help me to find one solution.
Someone know another solution to my problem.
Thanks for all helps

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Re: Connect 2 mips simulator..

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Zampieri Marco <in000466@students.univr.it> writes:

: Where I can find developer documentation to understand how the simulator
: and gdb dialog. 

The primary interface between gdb and its mips simulator is an API
defined by include/remote-sim.h.


: In fact, I must know how write a little program that connect to mips
: simulator and drive its functionality.

You may accomplish this by writing a C program that uses the above API
and links to the libsim.a library.


: I search to develop a comunication system between 2 or plus mips
: simulator. This permit me to send datas between 2 or plus process
: cross-compiled for mips execute in your simulator.  [...]

The gdb simulators are not designed to allow multiple instances to
coexist within a single application.  So, you can accomplish what you
want by interconnecting simulators running as separate applications,
by some middleware of your own.  Alternately, the existing simulator
"--memory-mapfile FILE" command line option may help, if the
interconnection between the simulators is limited to sharing some
region of target RAM.

- FChE

Re: Connect 2 mips simulator..

[Zampieri Marco]

I'm looking for the option --memory-mapfile FILE, but I can't find it in
the simulator parameters or gdb option.
Where I can find it? It is a configure option or a parameter of Make
program?

Thanks in advance






On 3 Sep 2001, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

>
> Zampieri Marco <in000466@students.univr.it> writes:
>
> : Where I can find developer documentation to understand how the simulator
> : and gdb dialog.
>
> The primary interface between gdb and its mips simulator is an API
> defined by include/remote-sim.h.
>
>
> : In fact, I must know how write a little program that connect to mips
> : simulator and drive its functionality.
>
> You may accomplish this by writing a C program that uses the above API
> and links to the libsim.a library.
>
>
> : I search to develop a comunication system between 2 or plus mips
> : simulator. This permit me to send datas between 2 or plus process
> : cross-compiled for mips execute in your simulator.  [...]
>
> The gdb simulators are not designed to allow multiple instances to
> coexist within a single application.  So, you can accomplish what you
> want by interconnecting simulators running as separate applications,
> by some middleware of your own.  Alternately, the existing simulator
> "--memory-mapfile FILE" command line option may help, if the
> interconnection between the simulators is limited to sharing some
> region of target RAM.
>
> - FChE
>
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Re: Connect 2 mips simulator..

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:58:51PM -0400, Zampieri Marco wrote:
: I'm looking for the option --memory-mapfile FILE, but I can't find it in
: the simulator parameters or gdb option.
: Where I can find it? It is a configure option or a parameter of Make
: program?

The --memory-mapfile option for the sim/common-based simulators such
as mips is supported automatically if your host supports mmap.  From
gdb, use "(gdb) [target] sim memory-mapfile FILE"; from the command
line, use "TARGET-run --memory-mapfile FILE".

Have you built your own cross-compiler/debugger/simulator recently?

- FChE
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From dcoutts@cray.com Thu Sep 06 07:24:00 2001
From: Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@cray.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: right way to_post_attach ?
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:24:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.SGI.4.33.0109060911120.1220-100000@underbird7.mw.cray.com>
References: <3B970771.5060508@cygnus.com>
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Hi,

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> > Hi,
> >
> > I can't quite figure out what the right way to setup a
> > target_ops.to_post_attach hook. I'm not defining a whole new target (am
> > I?), I'm using the procfs target. I just need to hook the to_post_attach
> > so I can do some random symbol fiddling just after the attach.
> >
> > I notice that several targets do a push_target during their attach, so
> > that their operations become avaliable,  but presumably I still want to
> > use the procfs target so I can't have the attach operation push my extra
> > target vector.
> >
> > In oop terms, I just want to 'override' the to_post_attach
> > method. I can't find anywhere that uses the to_post_attach in any
> > substantial way, so I'm rather short on clues.
> >
> > What's the way to do this, or is to_post_attach not the tool to be using
> > here?
> >
> > Thank's for any tips.
>
>
> i cant comment on post attach but i can comment on the underlying
> problem.  yes, the push / pop mechanism and gdb's target stack is
> primative at best - little wonder you're having problems.  the oo
> concept is simple, what gdb did to it is not, sigh,

Well as a simple hack, I've done to procfs what the child target does,
which is to #define some flag CHILD[/PROCFS]_POST_ATTACH which indicates
that the to_post_attach hook should be set to an externally defined
function child[/procfs]_post_attach.

So I've modified procfs but done it in a similar way to how the child
target provides it's own hook. If there's a better way that doesn't
invlove changing generic code I'd be happy to use it.

To be more specific here's what I did:
Comments welcome.

Duncan

Index: procfs.c
===================================================================
diff -c -r1.7 procfs.c
*** procfs.c	2001/08/27 17:32:52	1.7
--- procfs.c	2001/09/04 17:03:09
***************
*** 93,98 ****
--- 93,101 ----

  static void procfs_open              PARAMS((char *, int));
  static void procfs_attach            PARAMS ((char *, int));
+ #if defined(PROCFS_POST_ATTACH)
+ extern void procfs_post_attach       PARAMS ((int));
+ #endif
  static void procfs_detach            PARAMS ((char *, int));
  static void procfs_resume            PARAMS ((int, int, enum target_signal));
  static int  procfs_can_run           PARAMS ((void));
***************
*** 131,136 ****
--- 134,142 ----
    procfs_ops.to_kill               = procfs_kill_inferior;
    procfs_ops.to_mourn_inferior     = procfs_mourn_inferior;
    procfs_ops.to_attach             = procfs_attach;
+ #if defined(PROCFS_POST_ATTACH)
+   procfs_ops.to_post_attach        = procfs_post_attach;
+ #endif
    procfs_ops.to_detach             = procfs_detach;
    procfs_ops.to_wait               = procfs_wait;
    procfs_ops.to_resume             = procfs_resume;

Re: Connect 2 mips simulator

[Zampieri Marco]

Hi - On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:58:51PM -0400, Zampieri Marco wrote:

>: I'm looking for the option --memory-mapfile FILE, but I can't find it in
>: the simulator parameters or gdb option.
>: Where I can find it? It is a configure option or a parameter of Make
>: program?
>The --memory-mapfile option for the sim/common-based simulators such as
>mips is supported automatically if your host supports mmap.
From gdb, use "(gdb) [target] sim memory-mapfile FILE"; from the command
>line, use "TARGET-run --memory-mapfile FILE".

I try to use the command, but the simulator response me :

$>mips64vr4300-elf-run: unrecognized option `--memory-mapfile'

I use gdb 5.0 compiled with this option:

$>configure --target=mips64vr4300-elf
            --prefix=/home/zampieri/tools/other
            --exec-prefix=/home/zampieri/tools/H-i686-pc-linux-gnu/other
            -v 2>&1 | tee configure.out

$>make -w all install

I compiled it 2 weeks ago.

Is this right?
I must include some other option for compilator.

The mips nec vr4300 elf cross simulator support mmap?

I'm sorry but I must find a solution for this question!
Thanks

Re: Connect 2 mips simulator

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

: 	I create file pippo.txt with command that you tell me and then I
: run simulator with parameters and the programma Hello World, but into file
: it doesn't write nothing.

As the --help documentation suggests, the --memory-mapfile command
applies to the following --memory-region to be modelled by the simulator.
So,
	FOO-run --memory-mapfile blah.txt --memory-region 0x2000000,0x8000

will make available to the target program an extra memory region
0x02000000-0x02007FFF.  Any reads/writes to that region of memory
will be visible in the appropriate part of the file.  (The exact
time at which the memory and the file are synchronized is not
specified.  If you map the same file into two simulators on the
same host, you'll generally see instant synchronization.)

: If I have understood just, into file I would have to find the simulator
: memory into file, such as for example:
: <memory location> : <memory value>
: Is this right?

Your target program would have to read/write those specific areas of
memory.  For example:

	#define MMAPBASE 0x02000000
	#define MMAPBYTE ((volatile unsigned char *) MMAPBASE)
	strcpy (& MMAPBYTE[0], "hello world\n");

- FChE
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From tcombs@urbana.css.mot.com Fri Sep 07 09:10:00 2001
From: Tim Combs <tcombs@urbana.css.mot.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Memory and gdb
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 09:10:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010907111048.C24826@urbana.css.mot.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00061.html
Content-length: 415

I have memory management questions.  I thought the way to allocate
memory in gdb was with xmalloc and to free it was xfree.  (At least
that's what the internals document says).  But when I grep through
the source, I can find xmalloc but no xfree.  When I try to link
I get xfree multiply defined. It seems to be found in readline and
in utils.c.   What's the proper way to free memory?

Tim
Tim.Combs@motorola.com

Re: Connect 2 mips simulator

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:36:17PM +0200, Manganotto Filippo wrote:
: 	I'm working with Zampieri Marco. We have downloaded GDB from CVS
: and installed it. We find option --memory-mapfile FILE, but we doesn't
: know how to use it, because when we run
:     $>TARGET-run --memory-mapfile pippo.txt --memory-region=... hello
: [...]
: than we create an empty file called "pippo.txt", an the run
:     $>Error, cannot confirm that mmap file is large enough (>= 32768
: bytes)

A typical use of the mmap system call requires that the file being mapped
into memory be at least as large as the chosen mapped  memory size, so
that there is a one-to-one relationship between an existing byte in a
file, and a mapped byte in memory.  This means that an empty file, or
a too-small file will not be acceptable.

An easy way to create a file of a chosen size is to use the dd command
like this:

	dd if=/dev/zero of=pippo.txt bs=32768 count=1

This copies 1 block of 32768 bytes from /dev/zero to pippo.txt.
You will have a nice small zero-filled file.

- FChE
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From in000566@students.univr.it Fri Sep 07 05:07:00 2001
From: Manganotto Filippo <in000566@students.univr.it>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: "gdb@sources.redhat.com" <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Connect 2 mips simulator
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 05:07:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109071359470.29146-100000@delta046.sci.univr.it>
References: <20010907074214.A20756@redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00059.html
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Hi,
	I create file pippo.txt with command that you tell me and then I
run simulator with parameters and the programma Hello World, but into file
it doesn't write nothing.

If I have understood just, into file I would have to find the simulator
memory into file, such as for example:

<memory location> : <memory value>

Is this right?

Thanks in advance

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MANGANOTTO FILIPPO

       filippo.manganotto@students.univr.it
       manganot@arena.sci.univr.it
       pippomanga@tiscalinet.it
       filippo.manganotto@tin.it

Re: Connect 2 mips simulator

[Manganotto Filippo]

Hi,
	I'm working with Zampieri Marco. We have downloaded GDB from CVS
and installed it. We find option --memory-mapfile FILE, but we doesn't
know how to use it, because when we run

    $>TARGET-run --memory-mapfile pippo.txt --memory-region=... hello

it responde

    $>Cannot open file `ciao.txt': No such file or directory

than we create an empty file called "pippo.txt", an the run

    $>Error, cannot confirm that mmap file is large enough (>= 32768
bytes)

What could we write into file pippo.txt?

We haven't newer work with C program and we are learning it now, and we
forced to ask you many things.

Thanks in advance



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MANGANOTTO FILIPPO

       filippo.manganotto@students.univr.it
       manganot@arena.sci.univr.it
       pippomanga@tiscalinet.it
       filippo.manganotto@tin.it

Re: Connect 2 mips simulator

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:35:03PM -0400, Zampieri Marco wrote:
: [...]
: I try to use the command, but the simulator response me :
: $>mips64vr4300-elf-run: unrecognized option `--memory-mapfile'
: 
: I use gdb 5.0 compiled with this option:

Perhaps gdb 5.0 is too old: the simulator mmap feature was
added on 2001-03-16.  Consider fetching a version from CVS.
Search for mmap in sim/common/* to see if the code is there.


: $>configure --target=mips64vr4300-elf
:             --prefix=/home/zampieri/tools/other
:             --exec-prefix=/home/zampieri/tools/H-i686-pc-linux-gnu/other
:             -v 2>&1 | tee configure.out

(The exec-prefix part looks suspicious - consider using instead

#             --exec-prefix=/home/zampieri/tools/other/H-i686-pc-linux-gnu


: The mips nec vr4300 elf cross simulator support mmap?

Yes, it should.


- FChE

PS.  Your email address <zampieri@students.univr.it> is invalid, as
it is unable to receive mail.