Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753605Ab2KEQLb (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:11:31 -0500 Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:23910 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752901Ab2KEQJ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 11:09:26 -0500 From: Jan Kiszka To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jason Wessel , kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net, Andi Kleen , "David S. Miller" , Fenghua Yu , Kay Sievers , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck Subject: [PATCH 00/13] Add gdb python scripts as kernel debugging helpers Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:08:53 +0100 Message-Id: X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3827 Lines: 92 Version 2 of this series is a rebase over 3.7-rc4 to resolve some minor collision in the top-level makefile. Moreover, this implements automatic symbol loading for kernel modules using silent breakpoints. See patch 3 for details. Unless someone complains over this series or suggests a better workflow, I'm planning to send a pull to Linus during the next merge window. Here is the original intro for reference: This adds the infrastructure and first tools that make kernel debugging through gdb more comfortable. Since 7.0, gdb supports python scripting. And this opens the doors to automate steps like the tedious loading of module symbols at the right address, resolving per-cpu variables or even retrieving the current kernel log without resuming an stopped target. Many of the helpers naturally depend on the layout of structures or internal mechanics of the kernel. So the best place to maintain such things, keeping them consistent with the corresponding kernel is, well, the kernel itself. While these scripts have been originally developed for debugging via QEMU/KVM, I've now also added the required bits for KGDB. Works fine, but as QEMU/KVM tends to outperform KGDB it remains the recommendation - when available. There are two architecture dependencies so far, one regarding per-cpu, the other regarding thread_info calculation. None of them I was able to test on a target, so I'm counting on review/testing by the corresponding communities. This series should be considered the foundation of much more kernel state exploration helper, e.g. around tasks, timers, locks, sockets - I guess people will have even more ideas. Hope it's useful! PS: Also available via git://git.kiszka.org/linux.git queues/gdb-scripts CC: "David S. Miller" CC: Fenghua Yu CC: Kay Sievers CC: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org CC: Michal Marek CC: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org CC: Tony Luck Jan Kiszka (13): scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure scripts/gdb: Add container_of helper and convenience function scripts/gdb: Add lx-symbols command scripts/gdb: Add get_target_endianness helper scripts/gdb: Add read_u16/32/64 helpers scripts/gdb: Add lx-dmesg command scripts/gdb: Add task iteration helper scripts/gdb: Add helper and convenience function to look up tasks scripts/gdb: Add is_target_arch helper scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info scripts/gdb: Add get_gdbserver_type helper scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function for per-cpu lookup scripts/gdb: Add lx_current convenience function Makefile | 5 +- scripts/Makefile | 3 +- scripts/gdb/Makefile | 9 +++ scripts/gdb/dmesg.py | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/gdb/percpu.py | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/gdb/symbols.py | 133 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/gdb/task.py | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/gdb/utils.py | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py | 26 +++++++++ 9 files changed, 555 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/Makefile create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/dmesg.py create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/percpu.py create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/symbols.py create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/task.py create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/utils.py create mode 100644 scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py -- 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/