gdbserver : add selftest

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/gdbserver.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/gdbserver.py
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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
+#
+import os
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+import threading
+import time
+
+from oeqa.selftest.case import OESelftestTestCase
+from oeqa.utils.commands import bitbake, get_bb_var, get_bb_vars, runqemu , runCmd
+from oeqa.core.exception import OEQATimeoutError
+
+
+#The test runs gdbserver on qemu and connects the gdb client from host over TCP.
+#
+#It builds a cross gdb on the host and compiles the program to be debugged on the target,
+#launches the gdbserver and tries to connect cross gdb to it.
+
+
+class GdbTest(OESelftestTestCase):
+
+    def run_gdb(self, native_sysroot=None, **options):
+        # Add path to cross gdb to environment.
+        extra_paths = "%s/usr/bin/%s" % (self.recipe_sysroot_native, self.target_sys)
+        nenv = dict(options.get('env', os.environ))
+        nenv['PATH'] = extra_paths + ':' + nenv.get('PATH', '')
+        options['env'] = nenv
+
+        for count in range(5):
+            # Let the gdb server start before by putting client thread to sleep.
+            # Still, if gdb client happens to start before gdbserver, if will
+            # return "gdb connection timed out". In that case try
+            # connecting again
+            time.sleep(1)
+            cmd = "%s-gdb -ex 'set sysroot %s' -ex \"target remote %s:%s\" -ex continue -ex quit %s" \
+                       %(self.target_sys, self.recipe_sysroot_native, self.qemu_ip, self.gdbserver_port, self.binary)
+            r = runCmd(cmd, native_sysroot=self.recipe_sysroot_native, **options)
+            if "Connection timed out" not in r.output:
+                break
+            if count == 4:
+                self.assertTrue(False, "gdb unable to connect to gdbserver")
+
+    def run_gdb_client(self):
+        self.run_gdb(native_sysroot=self.recipe_sysroot_native, ignore_status=False)
+
+    def test_gdb_server(self):
+        self.target_dst = "/tmp/"
+        self.source  = "test.c"
+        self.binary  = "test"
+        self.target_source = self.target_dst + self.source
+        self.target_binary = self.target_dst + self.binary
+        self.gdbserver_port = 2001
+
+        try:
+            # These aren't the actual IP addresses but testexport class needs something defined
+            features  = 'TEST_SERVER_IP = "192.168.7.1"\n'
+            features += 'TEST_TARGET_IP = "192.168.7.2"\n'
+            features += 'EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES += "ssh-server-openssh"\n'
+            features += 'CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL += "gdbserver packagegroup-core-buildessential"\n'
+            self.write_config(features)
+
+            self.target_arch = get_bb_var('TARGET_ARCH')
+            self.target_sys  = get_bb_var('TARGET_SYS')
+
+            recipe = "gdb-cross-%s" %self.target_arch
+            gdb_cross_bitbake_command = "%s -c addto_recipe_sysroot" %recipe
+
+            bitbake(gdb_cross_bitbake_command)
+
+            self.recipe_sysroot_native = get_bb_var('RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE', recipe)
+
+            bitbake('core-image-minimal')
+
+            self.cross_gdb_name = "%s-gdb" %self.target_sys
+
+            # wrap the execution with a qemu instance
+            with runqemu("core-image-minimal", runqemuparams = "nographic") as qemu:
+                status, target_gcc = qemu.run_serial("which gcc")
+
+                self.assertNotEqual(target_gcc, None, 'gcc not found on the target')
+
+                self.qemu_ip = qemu.ip
+
+                # self.tc.files_dir = meta/lib/oeqa/files
+                src = os.path.join(self.tc.files_dir, 'test.c')
+
+                self.logger.debug("src : %s qemu.ip : %s self.target_dst : %s" % (src , self.qemu_ip , self.target_dst))
+                cmd = "scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=ERROR %s root@%s:%s"  % (src, qemu.ip, self.target_dst)
+                result = runCmd(cmd)
+
+                cmd = "cat %s" %(self.target_source)
+                status, output = qemu.run_serial(cmd)
+                self.assertIn("1234", output, "Source file copied to target is different that what is expected")
+
+                cmd = "%s %s -o %s -lm -g" % (target_gcc, self.target_source, self.target_binary)
+                status, output = qemu.run_serial(cmd)
+
+                cmd = "ls %s" %self.target_binary
+                status, output = qemu.run_serial(cmd)
+                self.assertNotIn("No such file or directory", output, "Test file compilation failed on target")
+
+                status, output = qemu.run_serial(self.target_binary)
+                self.assertIn("1234", output, "Test binary is different than what is expected")
+
+                cmd = "scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=ERROR root@%s:%s %s"  % (qemu.ip, self.target_binary, os.getcwd())
+                result = runCmd(cmd)
+
+                cmd = "strip -s --strip-debug %s" %self.target_binary
+                status, output = qemu.run_serial(cmd)
+
+                gdb_client_thread = threading.Thread(target=self.run_gdb_client)
+                gdb_client_thread.start()
+
+                cmd = "gdbserver localhost:%s %s" %(self.gdbserver_port, self.target_binary)
+                status, output = qemu.run_serial(cmd)
+                self.logger.debug("gdbserver status : %s output : %s" % (status, output))
+
+                gdb_client_thread.join()
+                self.assertIn("1234", output, "Expected string (1234) not present in test output")
+
+        except OEQATimeoutError:
+            self.fail("gdbserver test timeout error")
+