lx-fdtdump dumps the flattened device tree passed to the kernel from the
bootloader to the filename specified as the command argument. If no
argument is provided it defaults to fdtdump.dtb. This then allows
further post processing on the machine running GDB. The fdt header is
also also printed in the GDB console. For example:
(gdb) lx-fdtdump
fdt_magic: 0xD00DFEED
fdt_totalsize: 0xC108
off_dt_struct: 0x38
off_dt_strings: 0x3804
off_mem_rsvmap: 0x28
version: 17
last_comp_version: 16
Dumped fdt to fdtdump.dtb
>fdtdump fdtdump.dtb | less
This command is useful as the bootloader can often re-write parts of the
device tree, and this can sometimes cause the kernel to not boot.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481280065-5336-2-git-send-email-kbingham@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Griffin <peter.griffin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lx-dmesg needs access to the log_buf symbol from printk.c.
Unfortunately, the symbol log_buf also exists in BPF's verifier.c and
hence gdb can pick one or the other. If it happens to pick BPF's
log_buf, lx-dmesg doesn't work:
(gdb) lx-dmesg
Python Exception <class 'gdb.MemoryError'> Cannot access memory at address 0x0:
Error occurred in Python command: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
(gdb) p log_buf
$15 = 0x0
Luckily, GDB has a way to deal with this, see
https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Symbols.html
(gdb) info variables ^log_buf$
All variables matching regular expression "^log_buf$":
File <linux.git>/kernel/bpf/verifier.c:
static char *log_buf;
File <linux.git>/kernel/printk/printk.c:
static char *log_buf;
(gdb) p 'verifier.c'::log_buf
$1 = 0x0
(gdb) p 'printk.c'::log_buf
$2 = 0x811a6aa0 <__log_buf> ""
(gdb) p &log_buf
$3 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 <log_buf>
(gdb) p &'verifier.c'::log_buf
$4 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 <log_buf>
(gdb) p &'printk.c'::log_buf
$5 = (char **) 0x8048b7d0 <log_buf>
By being explicit about the location of the symbol, we can make lx-dmesg
work again. While at it, do the same for the other symbols we need from
printk.c
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526112222.3414-1-git@andred.net
Signed-off-by: André Draszik <git@andred.net>
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit e127a73d41 ("scripts/gdb: add a Radix Tree
Parser")
The python implementation of radix-tree was merged at the same time as
the radix-tree system was heavily reworked from commit e9256efcc8
("radix-tree: introduce radix_tree_empty") to 3bcadd6fa6 ("radix-tree:
free up the bottom bit of exceptional entries for reuse") and no longer
functions, but also prevents other gdb scripts from loading.
This functionality has not yet hit a release, so simply remove it for
now
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467127337-11135-6-git-send-email-kieran@bingham.xyz
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Python doesn't do automatic expansion of paths. In case one passes path
of the from ~/foo/bar the gdb scripts won't automatically expand that
and as a result the symbols files won't be loaded.
Fix this by explicitly expanding all paths which begin with "~"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467127337-11135-5-git-send-email-kieran@bingham.xyz
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since scripts/gdb/linux/constants.py is autogenerated, this should have
been added to .gitignore when it was introduced.
Fixes: f197d75fca ("scripts/gdb: provide linux constants")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467127337-11135-4-git-send-email-kieran@bingham.xyz
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The autogenerated constants.py file was only being built on the initial
call, and if the constants.py.in file changed. As we are utilising the
CPP hooks, we can successfully use the call if_changed_dep rules to
determine when to rebuild the file based on it's inclusions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467127337-11135-3-git-send-email-kieran@bingham.xyz
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The constants.py generation, involves a rule to link into the main
makefile. This rule has no command and generates a spurious warning
message in the build logs when CONFIG_SCRIPTS_GDB is enabled.
Fix simply by giving a no-op action
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467127337-11135-2-git-send-email-kieran@bingham.xyz
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Reported-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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'<text>' 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 <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Acked-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <buzdelabuz2+git@gmail.com>
[kieran@bingham.xyz: Adjusted commit log to better reflect code changes]
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz> (Py2.7,Py3.4,GDB10)
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <buzdelabuz2+git@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz> (Py2.7,Py3.4,GDB10)
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If CONFIG_MODULES is not enabled, lx-lsmod tries to find a non-existent
symbol and generates an unfriendly traceback:
(gdb) lx-lsmod
Address Module Size Used by
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py", line 75, in invoke
for module in module_list():
File "scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py", line 24, in module_list
module_ptr_type = module_type.get_type().pointer()
File "scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py", line 28, in get_type
self._type = gdb.lookup_type(self._name)
gdb.error: No struct type named module.
Error occurred in Python command: No struct type named module.
Catch the error and return an empty module_list() for a clean command
output as follows:
(gdb) lx-lsmod
Address Module Size Used by
(gdb)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94d533819437408b85ae5864f939dd7ca6fbfcd6.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If we attempt to read a value that is not available to GDB, an exception
is raised. Most of the time, this is a good thing; however on occasion
we will want to be able to determine if a symbol is available.
By catching the exception to simply return None, we can determine if we
tried to read an invalid value, without the exception taking our
execution context away from us
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c72b25c06fc66e1d68371154097e2cbb112555d8.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simplify the module list functions with the new list_for_each_entry
abstractions
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ad0101c9391088608166fcec26af179868973d86.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Facilitate linked-list items by providing a generator to return the
dereferenced, and type-cast objects from a kernel linked list
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b0998564e6e5abe53585d466f87e491331fd2a4.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some macro's and defines are needed when parsing memory, and without
compiling the kernel as -g3 they are not available in the debug-symbols.
We use the pre-processor here to extract constants to a dedicated module
for the linux debugger extensions
Top level Kbuild is used to call in and generate the constants file,
while maintaining dependencies on autogenerated files in
include/generated
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bc3df9c25f57ea72177c066a51a446fc19e2c27f.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 7523e4dc50 ("module: use a structure to encapsulate layout.")
factored out the module_layout structure. Adjust the symbol loader and
the lsmod command to this.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org> (qemu-{ARM,x86})
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.4+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lx-cmdline Report the Linux Commandline used in the current kernel
[jan.kiszka@siemens.com: remove blank line from help output and fix pep8 warning]
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lx-version Report the Linux Version of the current kernel.
Add a command to identify the version specified by the banner in the
debugged kernel.
This lets the user identify the kernel of the running kernel, and will
let later scripts compare the banner of the attached kernel against the
banner in the vmlinux symbols files to verify that the files are
correct.
[jan.kiszka@siemens.com: remove blank line from help output and fix pep8 warning]
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This makes the usage more flexible.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Thiébaud Weksteen <thiebaud@weksteen.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a gdb script to verify the consistency of lists.
Signed-off-by: Thiébaud Weksteen <thiebaud@weksteen.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 2f35c41f58 ("module: Replace module_ref with atomic_t refcnt")
changes the way refcnt is handled but did not update the gdb script to
use the new variable.
Since refcnt is not per-cpu anymore, we can directly read its value.
Signed-off-by: Adrien Schildknecht <adrien+dev@schischi.me>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This got lost during the initial merge process: Python requires an
__init__.py script, even if empty, in order to accept a directory as
package. Add it, this time as a non-empty file.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
While reporting the (refreshed) list of modules on automatic updates we
may hit the page boundary of the output console and cause a stop if
pagination is enabled. However, gdb does not accept user input while
running over the breakpoint handler. So we get stuck, and the user is
forced to interrupt gdb.
Resolve this by disabling pagination during automatic symbol updates. We
restore the user's configuration once done.
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>
Analogously to the task list, convert the module list to a generator
function. It noticeably simplifies the code.
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>
The iterator does not return any task_struct from the thread_group list
because the first condition in the 'if not t or ...' will only be the
first time None.
Instead of keeping track of the state ourself in the next() function, we
fall back using Python's generator.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
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>
Using the gdb scripts leaves byte-compiled python files in the scripts/
directory. These should be ignored by git.
[jan.kiszka@siemens.com: drop redundant mrproper rule as suggested by Michal]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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>
I tried to use these scripts in an ubuntu 14.04 host (gdb 7.7 compiled
against python 3.3) but there were several errors.
I believe this patch fixes these issues so that the commands now work (I
tested lx-symbols, lx-dmesg, lx-lsmod).
Main issues that needed to be resolved:
* In python 2 iterators have a "next()" method. In python 3 it is
__next__() instead (so let's just add both).
* In older python versions there was an implicit conversion
in object.__format__() (used when an object is in string.format())
where it was converting the object to str first and then
calling str's __format__(). This has now been removed so
we must explicitly convert to str the objects for which
we need to keep this behavior.
* In dmesg.py: in python 3 log_buf is now a "memoryview" object
which needs to be converted to a string in order to use string
methods like "splitlines()". Luckily memoryview exists in
python 2.7.6 as well, so we can convert log_buf to memoryview
and use the same code in both python 2 and python 3.
This version of the patch has now been tested with gdb 7.7 and both python
3.4 and python 2.7.6 (I think asking for at least python 2.7.6 is a
reasonable requirement instead of complicating the code with version
checks etc).
Signed-off-by: Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss@gmail.com>
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>
This adds a lsmod-like command to list all currently loaded modules of the
target.
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>
Will be used first to count module references. It is optimized to read
the mask only once per stop.
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>
This is a shorthand for *$lx_per_cpu("current_task"), i.e. a convenience
function to retrieve the currently running task of the active context.
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>
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 <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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>
This helper probes the type of the gdb server. Supported are QEMU and
KGDB so far. Knowledge about the gdb server is required e.g. to
retrieve the current CPU or current task.
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>
Add the internal helper get_thread_info that calculates the thread_info
from a given task variable. Also export this service as a convenience
function.
Note: ia64 version is untested.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.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>
This helper caches to result of "show architecture" and matches the
provided arch (sub-)string against that output.
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>
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 <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>
This class allows to iterate over all tasks of the target.
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>
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 <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
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>
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>
Parse the target endianness from the output of "show endian" and cache the
result to return it via the new helper get_target_endiannes. We will need
it for reading integers from buffers that contain target memory.
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>
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 <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>
This installs a silent breakpoint on the do_init_module function. The
breakpoint handler will try to load symbols from the module files found
during lx-symbols execution. This way, breakpoints can be set to module
initialization functions, and there is no need to explicitly call
lx-symbols after (re-)loading a module.
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>
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 <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>
Will soon be used for loading symbols, printing global variables or
listing modules.
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>
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 <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>
Type lookups are very slow in gdb-python which is often noticeable when
iterating over a number of objects. Introduce the helper class CachedType
that keeps a reference to a gdb.Type object but also refreshes it after an
object file has been loaded.
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>
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>
