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title="NEW - lldb-server --min/max-gdbserver-port port map is not shared between processes"
href="https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48205">48205</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>lldb-server --min/max-gdbserver-port port map is not shared between processes
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<th>Product</th>
<td>lldb
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<th>Version</th>
<td>11.0
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>PC
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>All Bugs
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>david.spickett@linaro.org
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<th>CC</th>
<td>jdevlieghere@apple.com, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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<pre>I have been running tests in a QEMU VM with select ports forwarded to the host
machine. To do this I used the --min/max-gdbserver-port options to lldb-server.
This is what the tree looks like when I connect two lldbs to the lldb-server in
qemu:
589 pts/0 T 0:01 \_ ./build-cross/bin/lldb-server platform
--server --listen 0.0.0.0:54321 --min-gdbserver-port 12346 --max-gdbserver-port
12347
590 pts/0 Tl 0:00 | \_ ./build-cross/bin/lldb-server platform
--server --listen 0.0.0.0:54321 --min-gdbserver-port 12346 --max-gdbserver-port
12347
600 pts/0 T 0:01 | | \_
/mnt/virt_root/build-cross/bin/lldb-server gdbserver tcp://10.0.2.2:12346
--native-regs --pipe 6
612 pts/0 t 0:00 | | \_ /mnt/virt_root/target
593 pts/0 Tl 0:00 | \_ ./build-cross/bin/lldb-server platform
--server --listen 0.0.0.0:54321 --min-gdbserver-port 12346 --max-gdbserver-port
12347
602 pts/0 T 0:01 | \_
/mnt/virt_root/build-cross/bin/lldb-server gdbserver tcp://10.0.2.2:12346
--native-regs --pipe 6
613 pts/0 t 0:00 | \_ /mnt/virt_root/target2
You can see that I'm saying only use port 12346 for spawning gdbservers. (the
max is the limit, that port is not included in the range)
The processes are roughly:
the platform
process for connection 1
gdbserver for connection 1
target
process for connection 2
gdbserver for connection 2
target
You can't log out of the per connection process
(<a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_CONFIRMED "
title="CONFIRMED - logging in "lldb-server platform --server" does not work"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=23169">https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23169</a>) so I added some prints. The first
number is the PID.
589: Set m_port_map
589: Connection established.
589: Set m_port_map
589: Connection established.
589: Set m_port_map
590: Looking for next available port...
590: Port 12346 is free
593: Looking for next available port...
593: Port 12346 is free
590: Associating port 12346 with process 600
593: Associating port 12346 with process 602
Because the per connection process gets a fresh copy of the port map, they
always think port 12346 is free and use it. Which defeats the purpose of the
option.
Weirdly, you can debug the two programs just fine. I have no idea how that
works, perhaps a human typing commands is just too slow to mess it up.
If you use an API testcase you can get a single connection to spawn two
gdbservers and that *does* fail to find a port the second time, as expected.
(though the error is confusing at best)
The cause of this is the same as <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_CONFIRMED "
title="CONFIRMED - logging in "lldb-server platform --server" does not work"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=23169">https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23169</a> I
think. I don't know much about IPC but I assume moving to threads would also
help share this port map correctly.</pre>
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