18 Feb, 2015
7 commits
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This function allows to obtain a per-cpu variable, either of the current
or an explicitly specified CPU.Note: sparc64 version is untested.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ben Widawsky
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add the helper task_by_pid that can look up a task by its PID. Also
export it as a convenience function.Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ben Widawsky
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This pokes into the log buffer of the debugged kernel, dumping it to the
gdb console. Helping in case the target should or can no longer execute
dmesg itself.Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
Cc: Kay Sievers
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ben Widawsky
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add the internal helper get_module_by_name to obtain the module structure
corresponding to the given name. Also export this service as a
convenience function.Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ben Widawsky
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is probably the most useful helper when debugging kernel modules:
lx-symbols first reloads vmlinux. Then it searches recursively for *.ko
files in the specified paths and the current directory. Finally it walks
the kernel's module list, issuing the necessary add-symbol-file command
for each loaded module so that gdb knows which module symbol corresponds
to which address. It also looks up variable sections (bss, data, rodata)
and appends their address to the add-symbole-file command line. This
allows to access global module variables just like any other variable.Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ben Widawsky
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Provide an internal helper with container_of semantics. As type lookups
are very slow in gdb-python and we need a type "long" for this, cache the
reference to this type object. Then export the helper also as a
convenience function form use at the gdb command line.Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ben Widawsky
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This provides the basic infrastructure to load kernel-specific python
helper scripts when debugging the kernel in gdb.The loading mechanism is based on gdb loading for -gdb.py when
opening . Therefore, this places a corresponding link to the
main helper script into the output directory that contains vmlinux.The main scripts will pull in submodules containing Linux specific gdb
commands and functions. To avoid polluting the source directory with
compiled python modules, we link to them from the object directory.Due to gdb.parse_and_eval and string redirection for gdb.execute, we
depend on gdb >= 7.2.This feature is enabled via CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
Acked-by: Michal Marek [kbuild stuff]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ben Widawsky
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
