The patch titled Subject: scripts/gdb: add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scripts-gdb-add-internal-helper-and-convenience-function-to-retrieve-thread_info.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/scripts-gdb-add-internal-helper-and-convenience-function-to-retrieve-thread_info.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/scripts-gdb-add-internal-helper-and-convenience-function-to-retrieve-thread_info.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 internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info 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@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx> 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 | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py~scripts-gdb-add-internal-helper-and-convenience-function-to-retrieve-thread_info scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py~scripts-gdb-add-internal-helper-and-convenience-function-to-retrieve-thread_info +++ a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py @@ -71,3 +71,38 @@ return that task_struct variable which P LxTaskByPidFunc() + + +thread_info_type = utils.CachedType("struct thread_info") + +ia64_task_size = None + + +def get_thread_info(task): + global thread_info_type + thread_info_ptr_type = thread_info_type.get_type().pointer() + if utils.is_target_arch("ia64"): + global ia64_task_size + if ia64_task_size is None: + ia64_task_size = gdb.parse_and_eval("sizeof(struct task_struct)") + thread_info_addr = task.address + ia64_task_size + thread_info = thread_info_addr.cast(thread_info_ptr_type) + else: + thread_info = task['stack'].cast(thread_info_ptr_type) + return thread_info.dereference() + + +class LxThreadInfoFunc (gdb.Function): + """Calculate Linux thread_info from task variable. + +$lx_thread_info(TASK): Given TASK, return the corresponding thread_info +variable.""" + + def __init__(self): + super(LxThreadInfoFunc, self).__init__("lx_thread_info") + + def invoke(self, task): + return get_thread_info(task) + + +LxThreadInfoFunc() _ 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