From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 01/28] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:59:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CB640B.4030707@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dac94f3b72cb0de147e679a605eec64528b8bf76.1422602696.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
On 2015-01-30 08:24, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This provides the basic infrastructure to load kernel-specific python
> helper scripts when debugging the kernel in gdb.
>
> The loading mechanism is based on gdb loading for <objfile>-gdb.py when
> opening <objfile>. Therefore, this places a corresponding link to the
> main helper script into the output directory that contains vmlinux.
>
> The main scripts will pull in submodules containing Linux specific gdb
> commands and functions. To avoid polluting the source directory with
> compiled python modules, we link to them from the object directory.
>
> Due to gdb.parse_and_eval and string redirection for gdb.execute, we
> depend on gdb >= 7.2.
>
> This feature is enabled via CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS.
>
> CC: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
> CC: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> ---
> Makefile | 5 ++++-
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 11 +++++++++++
> scripts/Makefile | 1 +
> scripts/gdb/Makefile | 1 +
> scripts/gdb/linux/Makefile | 11 +++++++++++
For the kbuild stuff:
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-30 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-30 7:24 [PATCH v12 00/28] Add gdb python scripts as kernel debugging helpers Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 01/28] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 10:59 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2015-02-04 6:49 ` [PATCH v13 " Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 02/28] scripts/gdb: Add cache for type objects Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 03/28] scripts/gdb: Add container_of helper and convenience function Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 04/28] scripts/gdb: Add module iteration class Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 05/28] scripts/gdb: Add lx-symbols command Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 06/28] module: Do not inline do_init_module Jan Kiszka
2015-02-10 23:59 ` Rusty Russell
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 07/28] scripts/gdb: Add automatic symbol reloading on module insertion Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 08/28] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to look up a module Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 09/28] scripts/gdb: Add get_target_endianness helper Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 10/28] scripts/gdb: Add read_u16/32/64 helpers Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 11/28] scripts/gdb: Add lx-dmesg command Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 12/28] scripts/gdb: Add task iteration class Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 13/28] scripts/gdb: Add helper and convenience function to look up tasks Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 14/28] scripts/gdb: Add is_target_arch helper Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 15/28] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 16/28] scripts/gdb: Add get_gdbserver_type helper Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 17/28] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function for per-cpu lookup Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 18/28] scripts/gdb: Add lx_current convenience function Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 19/28] scripts/gdb: Add class to iterate over CPU masks Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 20/28] scripts/gdb: Add lx-lsmod command Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 21/28] scripts/gdb: Add basic documentation Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 22/28] scripts/gdb: Port to python3 / gdb7.7 Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 23/28] scripts/gdb: Ignore byte-compiled python files Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 24/28] scripts/gdb: Use a generator instead of iterator for task list Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 25/28] scripts/gdb: Convert ModuleList to generator function Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 26/28] scripts/gdb: Convert CpuList " Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 27/28] scripts/gdb: Define maintainer Jan Kiszka
2015-01-30 7:24 ` [PATCH v12 28/28] scripts/gdb: Disable pagination while printing from breakpoint handler Jan Kiszka
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