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| author |   Filip Tehlar <ftehlar@cisco.com> | 2024-01-24 15:11:27 +0100 |
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| committer |   Florin Coras <florin.coras@gmail.com> | 2024-01-29 19:59:02 +0000 |
| commit | f34b6800de78d99192dc5757a4845e2668749c40 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a2334a93ca19a0e66a2b917d7f9817a5fb0706e | |
| parent | a1bd50c7a2c2c2d69d92cef167a64a1a5ddc4af7 (diff) | |
hs-test: update docs on debugging
Type: docs
Change-Id: I3bd89feb53a35532c79283bcdac2c87635c60920
Signed-off-by: Filip Tehlar <ftehlar@cisco.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | extras/hs-test/README.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/extras/hs-test/README.rst b/extras/hs-test/README.rst index 2caa65d7a83..6db832b7fbe 100644 --- a/extras/hs-test/README.rst +++ b/extras/hs-test/README.rst @@ -195,6 +195,21 @@ test run time it is not advisable to use aforementioned skip methods and instead func (s *MySuite) SkipTest(){ +**Debugging a test** + +It is possible to debug VPP by attaching ``gdb`` before test execution by adding ``DEBUG=true`` like follows: + +:: + + $ make test TEST=TestVeths/TestLDPreloadIperfVpp DEBUG=true + ... + run following command in different terminal: + docker exec -it server-vpp gdb -ex "attach $(docker exec server-vpp pidof vpp)" + Afterwards press CTRL+C to continue + +If a test consists of more VPP instances then this is done for each of them. + + **Eternal dependencies** * Linux tools ``ip``, ``brctl`` |