[VSC-1412] Add validation for debug session status for monitor start with no reset flag

[radurentea]

Description

JIRA: https://jira.espressif.com:8443/browse/VSC-1412

Type of change

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

Steps to test this pull request

1. Debug a project (ex: blink)
2. While debugging, start monitoring

• Expected behaviour:

The board should not reset itself, monitor should start from the current state of the board

How has this been tested?

As described above using the blink example on a ESP32-C6 board

Test Configuration:

• ESP-IDF Version: 5.3
• OS (Windows,Linux and macOS): Windows 11

Checklist

• PR Self Reviewed
• Applied Code formatting
• Added Documentation
• Added Unit Test
• Verified on all platforms - Windows,Linux and macOS

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Download the artifacts for this pull request:
You can test these changes by installing this VSIX by click menu View -> Command Palette..., type Install from VSIX and then select downloaded esp-idf-extension.vsix file to install the extension.

• esp-idf-extension.vsix.zip
  Espressif documentation preview

[radurentea]

Hi @brianignacio5, PTAL

[brianignacio5]

LGTM

[radurentea]

Hi @AndriiFilippov PTAL

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[AndriiFilippov]

@radurentea hi !

Tested under:
OS - MacOS
ESP-IDF: v5.2.2

Steps:
start debug session - run Monitor - stop debug session - try to start again -> ERROR:

/Users/andriifilippov/.espressif/tools/riscv32-esp-elf-gdb/14.2_20240403/riscv32-esp-elf-gdb/bin/riscv32-esp-elf-gdb

/Users/andriifilippov/.espressif/tools/openocd-esp32/v0.12.0-esp32-20240318/openocd-esp32/bin/openocd

Open On-Chip Debugger v0.12.0-esp32-20240318 (2024-03-18-18:28)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
	http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
debug_level: 2

Info : only one transport option; autoselecting 'jtag'

Info : esp_usb_jtag: VID set to 0x303a and PID to 0x1001
Info : esp_usb_jtag: capabilities descriptor set to 0x2000

Info : Listening on port 6666 for tcl connections

Info : Listening on port 4444 for telnet connections

Info : esp_usb_jtag: serial (60:55:F9:F7:2C:26)

Info : esp_usb_jtag: Device found. Base speed 24000KHz, div range 1 to 255

Info : clock speed 24000 kHz

Info : JTAG tap: esp32h2.cpu tap/device found: 0x00010c25 (mfg: 0x612 (Espressif Systems), part: 0x0010, ver: 0x0)

Info : [esp32h2] datacount=2 progbufsize=16

Info : [esp32h2] Examined RISC-V core; found 1 harts
Info : [esp32h2]  XLEN=32, misa=0x40903105

Info : [esp32h2] Examination succeed
Info : starting gdb server for esp32h2 on 3333
Info : Listening on port 3333 for gdb connections

Info : accepting 'gdb' connection on tcp/3333

Info : [esp32h2] Halt cause (5) - (PMP Load access fault)

Warn : No symbols for FreeRTOS!

❌ Error: Algorithm timed out after 40001 ms.

Info : [esp32h2] Halt cause (5) - (PMP Load access fault)

❌ Error: ra = 0x40800924

❌ Error: sp = 0x408046b0

❌ Error: gp = 0x4080a270

❌ Error: tp = 0x408061b4

❌ Error: t0 = 0x400106c4

❌ Error: t1 = 0xffffffe0

❌ Error: t2 = 0x0

❌ Error: fp = 0x1

❌ Error: s1 = 0xf8

❌ Error: a0 = 0x40804710

❌ Error: a1 = 0x42f88000

❌ Error: a2 = 0x20

❌ Error: a3 = 0x40804730

❌ Error: a4 = 0x40804730

❌ Error: a5 = 0x1

❌ Error: a6 = 0x20

❌ Error: a7 = 0x80000000

❌ Error: s2 = 0x8000

❌ Error: s3 = 0x20

❌ Error: s4 = 0x42f90000

❌ Error: s5 = 0x42f88000

❌ Error: s6 = 0x0

❌ Error: s7 = 0x60002000

❌ Error: s8 = 0x10000

❌ Error: s9 = 0x42f80000

❌ Error: s10 = 0x40804144

❌ Error: s11 = 0x1

❌ Error: t3 = 0x0

❌ Error: t4 = 0x0

❌ Error: t5 = 0x0

❌ Error: t6 = 0x0

❌ Error: pc = 0x40800000

❌ Error: mstatus = 0x1800

❌ Error: mepc = 0x40800008
Error: mcause = 0x5
Error: Failed to wait algorithm (-302)!
Error: Algorithm run failed (-302)!

❌ Error: Failed to run flasher stub (-302)!
Warn : Failed to get flash mappings (-302)!

❌ Error: Target is already running an algorithm
Error: Failed to start algorithm (-4)!

❌ Error: Failed to run flasher stub (-4)!

❌ Error: Target is already running an algorithm
Error: Failed to start algorithm (-4)!

❌ Error: Failed to run flasher stub (-4)!
Error: Failed to probe flash, size 0 KB
Error: auto_probe failed
Error: Connect failed. Consider setting up a gdb-attach event for the target to prepare target for GDB connect, or use 'gdb_memory_map disable'.

❌ Error: attempted 'gdb' connection rejected

Have tried multiple times. Leads to same error.

[radurentea]

Hi @AndriiFilippov,

The problem is not related to the change itself, but rather to the debugging process.
The intended behavior occurs when we:

1. Start a debug session
2. Begin monitoring
3. Apply the --no-reset flag and the monitoring starts without reseting the board

However, issues arise when:

1. We close the debugging session without properly ending the monitoring process
2. Or, we halt the program at a breakpoint before closing the session (board needs to be reset before attempting debugging again)

In these cases, when we attempt to restart debugging, we encounter errors.

I think we can close this issue if the intended behaviour works and open a discussion about the debugging process with @brianignacio5 and @kolipakakondal maybe they have a better understanding if we should and if we can support the a fix for what you found.

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[Fabricio-ESP]

Confirmed the message is only printed once not in the output.
Tested on Windows and Linux.