linux.git/scripts/gdb, branch v4.7-rc2

scripts/gdb: decode bytestream on dmesg for Python3

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

The recent fixes to lx-dmesg, now allow the command to print
successfully on Python3, however the python interpreter wraps the bytes
for each line with a b'' marker.

To remove this, we need to decode the line, where .decode() will default
to 'UTF-8'

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d67ccf93f2479c94cb3399262b9b796e0dbefcf2.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham 
Acked-by: Dom Cote 
Tested-by: Dom Cote 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/gdb: fix issue with dmesg.py and python 3.X

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

When built against Python 3, GDB differs in the return type for its
read_memory function, causing the lx-dmesg command to fail.

Now that we have an improved read_16() we can use the new
read_memoryview() abstraction to make lx-dmesg return valid data on both
current Python APIs

Tested with python 3.4 and 2.7
Tested with gdb 7.7

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/28477b727ff7fe3101fd4e426060e8a68317a639.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Dom Cote 
[kieran@bingham.xyz: Adjusted commit log to better reflect code changes]
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham  (Py2.7,Py3.4,GDB10)
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/gdb: improve types abstraction for gdb python scripts

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

Change the read_u16 function so it accepts both 'str' and 'byte' as type
for the arguments.

When calling read_memory() from gdb API, depending on if it was built
with 2.7 or 3.X, the format used to return the data will differ ( 'str'
for 2.7, and 'byte' for 3.X ).

Add a function read_memoryview() to be able to get a 'memoryview' object
back from read_memory() both with python 2.7 and 3.X .

Tested with python 3.4 and 2.7
Tested with gdb 7.7

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/73621f564503137a002a639d174e4fb35f73f462.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Dom Cote 
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham  (Py2.7,Py3.4,GDB10)
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/gdb: add lx_thread_info_by_pid helper

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

The tasks module already provides helpers to find the task struct by
pid, and the thread_info by task struct; however this is cumbersome to
utilise on the gdb commandline.

Wrap these two functionalities together in an extra single helper to
allow exploring the thread info, from a PID value

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dadc5667f053ec811eb3e3033d99d937fedbc93b.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree Parser

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

Linux makes use of the Radix Tree data structure to store pointers
indexed by integer values.  This structure is utilised across many
structures in the kernel including the IRQ descriptor tables, and
several filesystems.

This module provides a method to lookup values from a structure given
its head node.

Usage:

The function lx_radix_tree_lookup, must be given a symbol of type struct
radix_tree_root, and an index into that tree.

The object returned is a generic integer value, and must be cast
correctly to the type based on the storage in the data structure.

For example, to print the irq descriptor in the sparse irq_desc_tree at
index 18, try the following:

 (gdb) print (struct irq_desc)$lx_radix_tree_lookup(irq_desc_tree, 18)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d2028c55e50cf95a9b7f8ca0d11885174b0cc709.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/gdb: cast CPU numbers to integer

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

We won't see more than 2 billion CPUs any time soon, and having cpu_list
return long makes the output of lx-cpus a bit ugly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dcb45c3b0a59e0fd321fa56ff7aa398458c689b3.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/gdb: add cpu iterators

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

The linux kernel provides macro's for iterating against values from the
cpu_list masks.  By providing some commonly used masks, we can mirror
the kernels helper macros with easy to use generators.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d045c6599771ada1999d49612ee30fd2f9acf17f.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/gdb: add mount point list command

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

lx-mounts will identify current mount points based on the 'init_task'
namespace by default, as we do not yet have a kernel thread list
implementation to select the current running thread.

Optionally, a user can specify a PID to list from that process'
namespace

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e614c7bc32d2350b4ff1627ec761a7148e65bfe6.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/gdb: add io resource readers

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

Provide iomem_resource and ioports_resource printers and command hooks

It can be quite interesting to halt the kernel as it's booting and check
to see this list as it is being populated.

It should be useful in the event that a kernel is not booting, you can
identify what memory resources have been registered

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f0a6b9fa9c92af4d7ed2e7343ccc84150e9c6fc5.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/gdb: provide a dentry_name VFS path helper

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

Walk the VFS entries, pre-pending the iname strings to generate a full
VFS path name from a dentry.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4328fdb2d15ba7f1b21ad21c2eecc38d9cfc4d13.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds