setup_boot_args(), setup_client_args(), setup_args() traversing
datastructures on each invocation. Even if performance is not
important to perl script (though it definitely saves some CO2), this
nonetheless provokes some code-reading questions. Reading and
debugging such code is not convenient.
The better way is to prepare all the data in advance in an easily
readable form as well as do the validation step before any further
processing.
Use mtr_report() instead of die() like the other code does.
TODO: do_args() does even more data processing magic. Prepare that
data according the above strategy in advance in pre_setup() if possible.
There is a server startup option --gdb a.k.a. --debug-gdb that requests
signals to be set for more convenient debugging. Most notably, SIGINT
(ctrl-c) will not be ignored, and you will be able to interrupt the
execution of the server while GDB is attached to it.
When we are debugging, the signal handlers that would normally display
a terse stack trace are useless.
When we are debugging with rr, the signal handlers may interfere with
a SIGKILL that could be sent to the process by the environment, and ruin
the rr replay trace, due to a Linux kernel bug
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/31/311
To be able to diagnose bugs in kill+restart tests, we may really need
both a trace before the SIGKILL and a trace of the failure after a
subsequent server startup. So, we had better avoid hitting the problem
by simply not installing those signal handlers.
use _RR_TRACE_DIR=dir instead of -o dir, as the former can store
multiple traces in dir (if, e.g., the test restarts mysqld)
suppress uninitialized warning when $exe is undefined (--manual-XXX)
add a new "debugger" to mtr, that runs the executable
under valgrind in gdb. valgrind pid is auto-detected,
but the delay (sleep) and vgdb path are hard-coded for now
"debugger" is anything that wraps execution of a target
binary (mysqld or mysqltest). Currently the list includes:
gdb, ddd, dbx, lldb, valgrind, strace, ktrace, rr,
devenv, windbg, vsjitdebugger.
for every debugger xxx, mtr will recognize four options:
--xxx, --boot-xxx, --manual-xxx, --client-xxx.
They all support an optional "=string" argument. String
being a semicolon-separated list of commands (e.g. for gdb)
or one (not semicolon-separated) command line of options
(e.g. for valgrind). Or both (e.g. --gdb='-quiet -nh;info files'
In embedded both --xxx and --client-xxx work.
Functionality changed/removed:
* --rr-args is gone
* --rr-dir is gone
* --manual-debug is gone
* --debugger={devenv|vc|windbg|vc_express|vsjitdebugger} is gone
* --strace-option is gone
* --stracer={strace|ktrace} is gone
* --valgrind only enables it for the server, not for everything
* --valgrind-all is gone
* --valgrind-mysqltest is gone
* --valgrind-mysqld is gone
* --valgrind-options is gone
* --valgrind-option is gone
* --valgrind-path is gone
* --callgrind is gone
* one cannot combine --valgrind --gdb anymore
* valgrind report doesn't add a fake test line to the output
* vc and vcexpress on windows are no longer supported
