KGDB over serial on Jetson AGX Xavier

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson AGX Xavier
,
1

Is it possible to use KGDB over a serial connection on a Jetson AGX Xavier?

I’ve done the following:

  1. Connect micro-USB to port J501 on Jetson, USB-A on host machine
  2. On an SSH instance on the Jetson: echo ttyTCU0 > /sys/module/kgdboc/parameters/kgdboc, echo g > /proc/sysrq-trigger
  3. On host machine, sudo ./gcc-arm-10.3-2021.07-x86_64-aarch64-none-linux-gnu/bin/aarch64-none-linux-gnu-gdb ./vmlinux
  4. In GDB instance on host: target remote /dev/ttyUSB3

GDB gives this error on running the command above:

Remote debugging using /dev/ttyUSB3
Ignoring packet error, continuing...
warning: unrecognized item "timeout" in "qSupported" response
Ignoring packet error, continuing...
Remote replied unexpectedly to 'vMustReplyEmpty': timeout

This post seems to imply that what I am trying to do isn’t actually supported on /dev/ttyTCU0 so I’ve also tried a serial connection over pins 8/10 on the header using an FTDI cable. But with this topology, I am not even able to open a minicom connection.

3

hello jack31,

why don’t you use ethernet to login the board, and using GDB for debugging.
I usually only enable serial console to gather logs, ssh to login and issue commands is more reliable.

4

@JerryChang Can you provide a reference on how to do this? My understanding was that you need to use KGDB to access kernel-space (I’m debugging driver code)

5

I have not looked at KGDB in a very long time, but here is an old thread related to this:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1043341/jetson-agx-xavier/need-help-in-getting-kgdb-to-work/post/5294400/#5294400

6

@linuxdev thanks for the follow up - I’ve looked over this thread previously but it seems like the conclusion there was to try to connect to THS0, but this other thread implies that CONSOLE_POLL is not supported on any of the UART pins on the board

7

hello jack31,

it’s due to Jetson AGX Xavier is a combined UART, which KGDB did not support with that.
please refer to Topic 189830 for the steps to disable combined UART on Jetson AGX Xavier for confirmation,
thanks