From 78e878172327b1b6aa6264b1d22f9a083f9ddaa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:47:01 -0800
Subject: scripts/gdb: add read_u16/32/64 helpers

Add helpers for reading integers from target memory buffers.  Required
when caching the memory access is more efficient than reading individual
values via gdb.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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>
---
 scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

(limited to 'scripts/gdb')

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
index 10a227bdb621..808a26596827 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
@@ -85,3 +85,24 @@ def get_target_endianness():
         else:
             raise gdb.GdgError("unknown endianness '{0}'".format(endian))
     return target_endianness
+
+
+def read_u16(buffer):
+    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8)
+    else:
+        return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8)
+
+
+def read_u32(buffer):
+    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        return read_u16(buffer[0:2]) + (read_u16(buffer[2:4]) << 16)
+    else:
+        return read_u16(buffer[2:4]) + (read_u16(buffer[0:2]) << 16)
+
+
+def read_u64(buffer):
+    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        return read_u32(buffer[0:4]) + (read_u32(buffer[4:8]) << 32)
+    else:
+        return read_u32(buffer[4:8]) + (read_u32(buffer[0:4]) << 32)
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