Merge tag 'v4.0-rc2' into x86/asm, to refresh the tree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 100 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py
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+#
+# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging
+#
+#  task & thread tools
+#
+# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2011-2013
+#
+# Authors:
+#  Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
+#
+# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
+#
+
+import gdb
+
+from linux import utils
+
+
+task_type = utils.CachedType("struct task_struct")
+
+def task_lists():
+    global task_type
+    task_ptr_type = task_type.get_type().pointer()
+    init_task = gdb.parse_and_eval("init_task").address
+    t = g = init_task
+
+    while True:
+        while True:
+            yield t
+
+            t = utils.container_of(t['thread_group']['next'],
+                                   task_ptr_type, "thread_group")
+            if t == g:
+                break
+
+        t = g = utils.container_of(g['tasks']['next'],
+                                   task_ptr_type, "tasks")
+        if t == init_task:
+            return
+
+def get_task_by_pid(pid):
+    for task in task_lists():
+        if int(task['pid']) == pid:
+            return task
+    return None
+
+
+class LxTaskByPidFunc(gdb.Function):
+    """Find Linux task by PID and return the task_struct variable.
+
+$lx_task_by_pid(PID): Given PID, iterate over all tasks of the target and
+return that task_struct variable which PID matches."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(LxTaskByPidFunc, self).__init__("lx_task_by_pid")
+
+    def invoke(self, pid):
+        task = get_task_by_pid(pid)
+        if task:
+            return task.dereference()
+        else:
+            raise gdb.GdbError("No task of PID " + str(pid))
+
+
+LxTaskByPidFunc()
+
+
+thread_info_type = utils.CachedType("struct thread_info")
+
+ia64_task_size = None
+
+
+def get_thread_info(task):
+    global thread_info_type
+    thread_info_ptr_type = thread_info_type.get_type().pointer()
+    if utils.is_target_arch("ia64"):
+        global ia64_task_size
+        if ia64_task_size is None:
+            ia64_task_size = gdb.parse_and_eval("sizeof(struct task_struct)")
+        thread_info_addr = task.address + ia64_task_size
+        thread_info = thread_info_addr.cast(thread_info_ptr_type)
+    else:
+        thread_info = task['stack'].cast(thread_info_ptr_type)
+    return thread_info.dereference()
+
+
+class LxThreadInfoFunc (gdb.Function):
+    """Calculate Linux thread_info from task variable.
+
+$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()