From: Jon Doron <ari...@gmail.com>
The PhyMemMode gdb extension command was missing from the gdb.rst
document.
Signed-off-by: Jon Doron <ari...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200601171609.1665397-1-ari...@gmail.com>
---
docs/system/gdb.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/system/gdb.rst b/docs/system/gdb.rst
index a40145fcf849..abda961e2b49 100644
--- a/docs/system/gdb.rst
+++ b/docs/system/gdb.rst
@@ -87,3 +87,23 @@ three commands you can query and set the single step
behavior:
(gdb) maintenance packet Qqemu.sstep=0x5
sending: "qemu.sstep=0x5"
received: "OK"
+
+
+Another feature that QEMU gdbstub provides is to toggle the memory GDB
+works with, by default GDB will show the current process memory respecting
+the virtual address translation.
+
+If you want to examine/change the physical memory you can set the gdbstub
+to work with the physical memory rather with the virtual one.
+
+The memory mode can be checked by sending the following command:
+
+``maintenance packet qqemu.PhyMemMode``
+ This will return either 0 or 1, 1 indicates you are currently in the
+ physical memory mode.
+
+``maintenance packet Qqemu.PhyMemMode:1``
+ This will change the memory mode to physical memory.
+
+``maintenance packet Qqemu.PhyMemMode:0``
+ This will change it back to normal memory mode.
--
2.20.1
