The patch titled Subject: scripts/gdb: add task iteration class has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scripts-gdb-add-task-iteration-class.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/scripts-gdb-add-task-iteration-class.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/scripts-gdb-add-task-iteration-class.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: scripts/gdb: add task iteration class This class allows to iterate over all tasks of the target. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) diff -puN /dev/null scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py --- /dev/null +++ a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +# +# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging +# +# task & thread tools +# +# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2011-2013 +# +# Authors: +# Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> +# +# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2. +# + +import gdb + +from linux import utils + + +task_type = utils.CachedType("struct task_struct") + + +class TaskList: + def __init__(self): + global task_type + self.task_ptr_type = task_type.get_type().pointer() + self.init_task = gdb.parse_and_eval("init_task") + self.curr_group = self.init_task.address + self.curr_task = None + + def __iter__(self): + return self + + def next(self): + t = self.curr_task + if not t or t == self.curr_group: + self.curr_group = \ + utils.container_of(self.curr_group['tasks']['next'], + self.task_ptr_type, "tasks") + if self.curr_group == self.init_task.address: + raise StopIteration + t = self.curr_task = self.curr_group + else: + self.curr_task = \ + utils.container_of(t['thread_group']['next'], + self.task_ptr_type, "thread_group") + return t _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx are scripts-gdb-add-infrastructure.patch scripts-gdb-add-cache-for-type-objects.patch scripts-gdb-add-container_of-helper-and-convenience-function.patch scripts-gdb-add-module-iteration-class.patch scripts-gdb-add-lx-symbols-command.patch module-do-not-inline-do_init_module.patch scripts-gdb-add-automatic-symbol-reloading-on-module-insertion.patch scripts-gdb-add-internal-helper-and-convenience-function-to-look-up-a-module.patch scripts-gdb-add-get_target_endianness-helper.patch scripts-gdb-add-read_u16-32-64-helpers.patch scripts-gdb-add-lx-dmesg-command.patch scripts-gdb-add-task-iteration-class.patch scripts-gdb-add-helper-and-convenience-function-to-look-up-tasks.patch scripts-gdb-add-is_target_arch-helper.patch scripts-gdb-add-internal-helper-and-convenience-function-to-retrieve-thread_info.patch scripts-gdb-add-get_gdbserver_type-helper.patch scripts-gdb-add-internal-helper-and-convenience-function-for-per-cpu-lookup.patch scripts-gdb-add-lx_current-convenience-function.patch scripts-gdb-add-class-to-iterate-over-cpu-masks.patch scripts-gdb-add-lx-lsmod-command.patch scripts-gdb-add-basic-documentation.patch scripts-gdb-port-to-python3-gdb77.patch scripts-gdb-ignore-byte-compiled-python-files.patch scripts-gdb-use-a-generator-instead-of-iterator-for-task-list.patch scripts-gdb-convert-modulelist-to-generator-function.patch scripts-gdb-convert-cpulist-to-generator-function.patch scripts-gdb-define-maintainer.patch scripts-gdb-disable-pagination-while-printing-from-breakpoint-handler.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html