The patch titled Subject: scripts/gdb: add automatic symbol reloading on module insertion has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was scripts-gdb-add-automatic-symbol-reloading-on-module-insertion.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: scripts/gdb: add automatic symbol reloading on module insertion 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@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/symbols.py | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py~scripts-gdb-add-automatic-symbol-reloading-on-module-insertion scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py~scripts-gdb-add-automatic-symbol-reloading-on-module-insertion +++ a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py @@ -19,6 +19,30 @@ import string from linux import modules, utils +if hasattr(gdb, 'Breakpoint'): + class LoadModuleBreakpoint(gdb.Breakpoint): + def __init__(self, spec, gdb_command): + super(LoadModuleBreakpoint, self).__init__(spec, internal=True) + self.silent = True + self.gdb_command = gdb_command + + def stop(self): + module = gdb.parse_and_eval("mod") + module_name = module['name'].string() + cmd = self.gdb_command + + # enforce update if object file is not found + cmd.module_files_updated = False + + if module_name in cmd.loaded_modules: + gdb.write("refreshing all symbols to reload module " + "'{0}'\n".format(module_name)) + cmd.load_all_symbols() + else: + cmd.load_module_symbols(module) + return False + + class LxSymbols(gdb.Command): """(Re-)load symbols of Linux kernel and currently loaded modules. @@ -30,6 +54,8 @@ lx-symbols command.""" module_paths = [] module_files = [] module_files_updated = False + loaded_modules = [] + breakpoint = None def __init__(self): super(LxSymbols, self).__init__("lx-symbols", gdb.COMMAND_FILES, @@ -87,6 +113,8 @@ lx-symbols command.""" addr=module_addr, sections=self._section_arguments(module)) gdb.execute(cmdline, to_string=True) + if not module_name in self.loaded_modules: + self.loaded_modules.append(module_name) else: gdb.write("no module object found for '{0}'\n".format(module_name)) @@ -104,6 +132,7 @@ lx-symbols command.""" gdb.execute("symbol-file", to_string=True) gdb.execute("symbol-file vmlinux") + self.loaded_modules = [] module_list = modules.ModuleList() if not module_list: gdb.write("no modules found\n") @@ -123,5 +152,15 @@ lx-symbols command.""" self.load_all_symbols() + if hasattr(gdb, 'Breakpoint'): + if not self.breakpoint is None: + self.breakpoint.delete() + self.breakpoint = None + self.breakpoint = LoadModuleBreakpoint( + "kernel/module.c:do_init_module", self) + else: + gdb.write("Note: symbol update on module loading not supported " + "with this gdb version\n") + LxSymbols() _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.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