The patch titled Subject: scripts/gdb: improve types abstraction for gdb python scripts has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is scripts-gdb-improve-types-abstraction-for-gdb-python-scripts.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/scripts-gdb-improve-types-abstraction-for-gdb-python-scripts.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/scripts-gdb-improve-types-abstraction-for-gdb-python-scripts.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: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: scripts/gdb: improve types abstraction for gdb python scripts Change the read_u16 function so it accepts both 'str' and 'byte' as type for the arguments. When calling read_memory() from gdb API, depending on if it was built with 2.7 or 3.X, the format used to return the data will differ ( 'str' for 2.7, and 'byte' for 3.X ). Add a function read_memoryview() to be able to get a 'memoryview' object back from read_memory() both with python 2.7 and 3.X . Tested with python 3.4 and 2.7 Tested with gdb 7.7 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/73621f564503137a002a639d174e4fb35f73f462.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@xxxxxxxxxxx> (Py2.7,Py3.4,GDB10) Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py~scripts-gdb-improve-types-abstraction-for-gdb-python-scripts scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py~scripts-gdb-improve-types-abstraction-for-gdb-python-scripts +++ a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py @@ -87,11 +87,24 @@ def get_target_endianness(): return target_endianness +def read_memoryview(inf, start, length): + return memoryview(inf.read_memory(start, length)) + + def read_u16(buffer): + value = [0, 0] + + if type(buffer[0]) is str: + value[0] = ord(buffer[0]) + value[1] = ord(buffer[1]) + else: + value[0] = buffer[0] + value[1] = buffer[1] + if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN: - return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8) + return value[0] + (value[1] << 8) else: - return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8) + return value[1] + (value[0] << 8) def read_u32(buffer): _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from buzdelabuz2+git@xxxxxxxxx are scripts-gdb-improve-types-abstraction-for-gdb-python-scripts.patch scripts-gdb-fix-issue-with-dmesgpy-and-python-3x.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