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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
	kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
	Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/13] scripts/gdb: Add lx-symbols command
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:19:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130121211920.GP30577@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2ce8613114b7af6da0b55bdab8c38c69024fbd13.1358787929.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 06:06:10PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This is probably the most useful helper when debugging kernel modules:
> lx-symbols will first reload vmlinux. Then it searches recursively for
> *.ko files in the specified paths and the current directory. Finally it
> walks the kernel's module list, issuing the necessary add-symbol-file
> command for each loaded module so that gdb know which module symbol
> correspond to which address.

Yes sounds very useful. I usually have to build everything
statically for gdb debugging. Would definitely use it if it was
in the standard tree.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-21 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-21 17:06 [PATCH v4 00/13] Add gdb python scripts as kernel debugging helpers Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure Jan Kiszka
2013-01-23 11:41   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-23 11:44     ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-23 12:01       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-23 12:04         ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] scripts/gdb: Add container_of helper and convenience function Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] scripts/gdb: Add lx-symbols command Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 21:19   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] scripts/gdb: Add get_target_endianness helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] scripts/gdb: Add read_u16/32/64 helpers Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 06/13] scripts/gdb: Add lx-dmesg command Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 21:20   ` Andi Kleen
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] scripts/gdb: Add task iteration helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 08/13] scripts/gdb: Add helper and convenience function to look up tasks Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] scripts/gdb: Add is_target_arch helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] scripts/gdb: Add get_gdbserver_type helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 12/13] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function for per-cpu lookup Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 17:06 ` [PATCH v4 13/13] scripts/gdb: Add lx_current convenience function Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] Add gdb python scripts as kernel debugging helpers Andi Kleen
2013-01-21 21:21   ` Andi Kleen
2013-01-22  8:36   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-22  8:36     ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-22  8:36     ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-21 22:06 ` Ben Widawsky
2013-01-21 22:06   ` Ben Widawsky
2013-01-21 22:15 ` Andi Kleen
2013-01-21 22:15   ` Andi Kleen
2013-01-22  8:44   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-22  8:44     ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-22  8:44     ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-23 11:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-23 11:32   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-23 11:40   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-23 11:40     ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-24 20:18 ` [PATCH v4 14/13] scripts/gdb: Add basic documentation Jan Kiszka

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