u-boot/test/py/u_boot_spawn.py
Stephen Warren 89ab841088 test/py: support running sandbox under gdbserver
Implement command--line option --gdbserver COMM, which does two things:

a) Run the sandbox process under gdbserver, using COMM as gdbserver's
   communication channel.

b) Disables all timeouts, so that if U-Boot is halted under the debugger,
   tests don't fail. If the user gives up in the middle of a debugging
   session, they can simply CTRL-C the test script to abort it.

This allows easy debugging of test failures without having to manually
re-create the failure conditions. Usage is:

Window 1:
./test/py/test.py --bd sandbox --gdbserver localhost:1234

Window 2:
gdb ./build-sandbox/u-boot -ex 'target remote localhost:1234'

When using this option, it likely makes sense to use pytest's -k option
to limit the set of tests that are executed.

Simply running U-Boot directly under gdb (rather than gdbserver) was
also considered. However, this was rejected because:

a) gdb's output would then be processed by the test script, and likely
   confuse it causing false failures.

b) pytest by default hides stdout from tests, which would prevent the
   user from interacting with gdb.

   While gdb can be told to redirect the debugee's stdio to a separate
   PTY, this would appear to leave gdb's stdio directed at the test
   scripts and the debugee's stdio directed elsewhere, which is the
   opposite of the desired effect. Perhaps some complicated PTY muxing
   and process hierarchy could invert this. However, the current scheme
   is simple to implement and use, so it doesn't seem worth complicating
   matters.

c) Using gdbserver allows arbitrary debuggers to be used, even those with
   a GUI. If the test scripts invoked the debugger themselves, they'd have
   to know how to execute arbitary applications. While the user could hide
   this all in a wrapper script, this feels like extra complication.

An interesting future idea might be a --gdb-screen option, which could
spawn both U-Boot and gdb separately, and spawn the screen into a newly
created window under screen. Similar options could be envisaged for
creating a new xterm/... too.

--gdbserver  currently only supports sandbox, and not real hardware.
That's primarily because the test hooks are responsible for all aspects of
hardware control, so there's nothing for the test scripts themselves can
do to enable gdbserver on real hardware. We might consider introducing a
separate --disable-timeouts option to support use of debuggers on real
hardware, and having --gdbserver imply that option.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
2016-02-08 10:22:39 -05:00

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# Copyright (c) 2015-2016, NVIDIA CORPORATION. All rights reserved.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# Logic to spawn a sub-process and interact with its stdio.
import os
import re
import pty
import signal
import select
import time
class Timeout(Exception):
"""An exception sub-class that indicates that a timeout occurred."""
pass
class Spawn(object):
"""Represents the stdio of a freshly created sub-process. Commands may be
sent to the process, and responses waited for.
"""
def __init__(self, args, cwd=None):
"""Spawn (fork/exec) the sub-process.
Args:
args: array of processs arguments. argv[0] is the command to
execute.
cwd: the directory to run the process in, or None for no change.
Returns:
Nothing.
"""
self.waited = False
self.buf = ''
self.logfile_read = None
self.before = ''
self.after = ''
self.timeout = None
(self.pid, self.fd) = pty.fork()
if self.pid == 0:
try:
# For some reason, SIGHUP is set to SIG_IGN at this point when
# run under "go" (www.go.cd). Perhaps this happens under any
# background (non-interactive) system?
signal.signal(signal.SIGHUP, signal.SIG_DFL)
if cwd:
os.chdir(cwd)
os.execvp(args[0], args)
except:
print 'CHILD EXECEPTION:'
import traceback
traceback.print_exc()
finally:
os._exit(255)
self.poll = select.poll()
self.poll.register(self.fd, select.POLLIN | select.POLLPRI | select.POLLERR | select.POLLHUP | select.POLLNVAL)
def kill(self, sig):
"""Send unix signal "sig" to the child process.
Args:
sig: The signal number to send.
Returns:
Nothing.
"""
os.kill(self.pid, sig)
def isalive(self):
"""Determine whether the child process is still running.
Args:
None.
Returns:
Boolean indicating whether process is alive.
"""
if self.waited:
return False
w = os.waitpid(self.pid, os.WNOHANG)
if w[0] == 0:
return True
self.waited = True
return False
def send(self, data):
"""Send data to the sub-process's stdin.
Args:
data: The data to send to the process.
Returns:
Nothing.
"""
os.write(self.fd, data)
def expect(self, patterns):
"""Wait for the sub-process to emit specific data.
This function waits for the process to emit one pattern from the
supplied list of patterns, or for a timeout to occur.
Args:
patterns: A list of strings or regex objects that we expect to
see in the sub-process' stdout.
Returns:
The index within the patterns array of the pattern the process
emitted.
Notable exceptions:
Timeout, if the process did not emit any of the patterns within
the expected time.
"""
for pi in xrange(len(patterns)):
if type(patterns[pi]) == type(''):
patterns[pi] = re.compile(patterns[pi])
tstart_s = time.time()
try:
while True:
earliest_m = None
earliest_pi = None
for pi in xrange(len(patterns)):
pattern = patterns[pi]
m = pattern.search(self.buf)
if not m:
continue
if earliest_m and m.start() >= earliest_m.start():
continue
earliest_m = m
earliest_pi = pi
if earliest_m:
pos = earliest_m.start()
posafter = earliest_m.end() + 1
self.before = self.buf[:pos]
self.after = self.buf[pos:posafter]
self.buf = self.buf[posafter:]
return earliest_pi
tnow_s = time.time()
if self.timeout:
tdelta_ms = (tnow_s - tstart_s) * 1000
poll_maxwait = self.timeout - tdelta_ms
if tdelta_ms > self.timeout:
raise Timeout()
else:
poll_maxwait = None
events = self.poll.poll(poll_maxwait)
if not events:
raise Timeout()
c = os.read(self.fd, 1024)
if not c:
raise EOFError()
if self.logfile_read:
self.logfile_read.write(c)
self.buf += c
finally:
if self.logfile_read:
self.logfile_read.flush()
def close(self):
"""Close the stdio connection to the sub-process.
This also waits a reasonable time for the sub-process to stop running.
Args:
None.
Returns:
Nothing.
"""
os.close(self.fd)
for i in xrange(100):
if not self.isalive():
break
time.sleep(0.1)