The patch titled Subject: scripts/gdb: add is_target_arch helper has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scripts-gdb-add-is_target_arch-helper.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/scripts-gdb-add-is_target_arch-helper.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/scripts-gdb-add-is_target_arch-helper.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 is_target_arch helper 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@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/utils.py | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py~scripts-gdb-add-is_target_arch-helper scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py~scripts-gdb-add-is_target_arch-helper +++ a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py @@ -106,3 +106,16 @@ def read_u64(buffer): 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) + + +target_arch = None + + +def is_target_arch(arch): + if hasattr(gdb.Frame, 'architecture'): + return arch in gdb.newest_frame().architecture().name() + else: + global target_arch + if target_arch is None: + target_arch = gdb.execute("show architecture", to_string=True) + return arch in target_arch _ 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