Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> writes:

> When replaying a trace, it is possible to go from shutdown to running
> with a reverse-debugging step. This can be useful if the problem being
> debugged triggers a reset or shutdown.
>
> This can be tested by making a recording of a machine that shuts down,
> then using -action shutdown=pause when replaying it. Continuing to the
> end of the trace then reverse-stepping in gdb crashes due to invalid
> runstate transition.
>
> Just permitting the transition seems to be all that's necessary for
> reverse-debugging to work well in such a state.
>
> Reviewed-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <pavel.dovgal...@ispras.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro

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