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| author | Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> | 2015-02-17 22:46:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-17 23:34:53 +0100 |
| commit | 3ee7b3fa2cd0182628cca8d9bb5ce2d4722e8dc5 (patch) | |
| tree | ecbead6b6c7ac9f7a9a62e17f516611873e6c275 /scripts/gdb | |
| parent | fs/affs/super.c: fix switch indentation (diff) | |
| download | linux-3ee7b3fa2cd0182628cca8d9bb5ce2d4722e8dc5.tar.xz linux-3ee7b3fa2cd0182628cca8d9bb5ce2d4722e8dc5.zip | |
scripts/gdb: add infrastructure
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 <objfile>-gdb.py when
opening <objfile>. 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 <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> [kbuild stuff]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/gdb')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/gdb/Makefile | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py | 23 |
3 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/Makefile b/scripts/gdb/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..62f5f65becfd --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/gdb/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +subdir-y := linux diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile b/scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6cf1ecf61057 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +always := gdb-scripts + +SRCTREE := $(shell cd $(srctree) && /bin/pwd) + +$(obj)/gdb-scripts: +ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),) + $(Q)ln -fsn $(SRCTREE)/$(obj)/*.py $(objtree)/$(obj) +endif + @: + +clean-files := *.pyc *.pyo $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),*.py) diff --git a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c1d90cea5288 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# +# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging +# +# loader module +# +# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2012, 2013 +# +# Authors: +# Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> +# +# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2. +# + +import os + +sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(__file__) + "/scripts/gdb") + +try: + gdb.parse_and_eval("0") + gdb.execute("", to_string=True) +except: + gdb.write("NOTE: gdb 7.2 or later required for Linux helper scripts to " + "work.\n") |