Version 5 comes with the following changes:
- moved tutorial into Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt
- improved caching of gdb.Type objects, ensure they are in sync with
currently loaded symbols
- added new functions and commands
- lx_module -- Find module by name and return the module variable
- lx_modvar -- Return global variable of a module
- lx-lsmod -- List currently loaded modules
See http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1210.0/01598.html for
the original description and
git://git.kiszka.org/linux.git queues/gdb-scripts
for the latest version.
Jan
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Jan Kiszka (20):
scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure
scripts/gdb: Add cache for type objects
scripts/gdb: Add container_of helper and convenience function
scripts/gdb: Add module iteration helper
scripts/gdb: Add lx-symbols command
scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to look up
a module
scripts/gdb: Add lx_modvar convenience function
scripts/gdb: Add get_target_endianness helper
scripts/gdb: Add read_u16/32/64 helpers
scripts/gdb: Add lx-dmesg command
scripts/gdb: Add task iteration helper
scripts/gdb: Add helper and convenience function to look up tasks
scripts/gdb: Add is_target_arch helper
scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve
thread_info
scripts/gdb: Add get_gdbserver_type helper
scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function for per-cpu
lookup
scripts/gdb: Add lx_current convenience function
scripts/gdb: Add helper to iterate over CPU masks
scripts/gdb: Add lx-lsmod command
scripts/gdb: Add basic documentation
Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt | 155 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Makefile | 5 +-
scripts/Makefile | 3 +-
scripts/gdb/Makefile | 9 ++
scripts/gdb/dmesg.py | 63 +++++++++++++
scripts/gdb/module.py | 149 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
scripts/gdb/percpu.py | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++
scripts/gdb/symbols.py | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
scripts/gdb/task.py | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++
scripts/gdb/utils.py | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py | 29 ++++++
11 files changed, 925 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt
create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/Makefile
create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/dmesg.py
create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/module.py
create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/percpu.py
create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/symbols.py
create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/task.py
create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/utils.py
create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
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