Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753794Ab2KEQKR (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:10:17 -0500 Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:23914 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752998Ab2KEQJ1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:09:27 -0500 From: Jan Kiszka To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jason Wessel , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, Andi Kleen Subject: [PATCH 02/13] scripts/gdb: Add container_of helper and convenience function Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:08:55 +0100 Message-Id: <00ecc4dccf572094587e9c3bef1f523d141dd0da.1352131730.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.4 In-Reply-To: References: In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2769 Lines: 91 Provide an internal helper with container_of semantics. As type lookups are very slow in gdb-python and we need a type "long" for this, cache the reference to this type object. Then export the helper also as a convenience function form use at the gdb command line. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka --- scripts/gdb/utils.py | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py | 2 + 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/utils.py diff --git a/scripts/gdb/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/utils.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74682c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/gdb/utils.py @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +# +# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging +# +# common utilities +# +# Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Siemens AG +# +# Authors: +# Jan Kiszka +# +# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2. +# + +import gdb + +long_type = None + +def get_type(type_name): + t = gdb.lookup_type(type_name) + if t == None: + raise gdb.GdbError("cannot resolve type '%s'" % type_name) + return t + +def get_long_type(): + global long_type + if long_type == None: + long_type = get_type("long") + return long_type + + +def offset_of(typeobj, field): + element = gdb.Value(0).cast(typeobj) + return int(str(element[field].address).split()[0], 16) + +def container_of(ptr, typeobj, member): + return (ptr.cast(get_long_type()) - + offset_of(typeobj, member)).cast(typeobj) + + +class ContainerOf(gdb.Function): + __doc__ = "Return pointer to containing data structure.\n" \ + "\n" \ + "$container_of(PTR, \"TYPE\", \"ELEMENT\"): Given PTR, return a pointer to the\n" \ + "data structure of the type TYPE in which PTR is the address of ELEMENT.\n" \ + "Note that TYPE and ELEMENT have to be quoted as strings." + + def __init__(self): + super(ContainerOf, self).__init__("container_of") + + def invoke(self, ptr, typename, elementname): + return container_of(ptr, + gdb.lookup_type(typename.string()).pointer(), + elementname.string()) + +ContainerOf() diff --git a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py index 00df617..62c30b8 100644 --- a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py +++ b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py @@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ sys.path = [ os.path.dirname(__file__) + "/scripts/gdb" ] + sys.path if not gdb.VERSION >= "7.1": print "NOTE: gdb 7.1 or later required for Linux helper scripts " \ "to work." +else: + import utils -- 1.7.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/