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authorKieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>2016-05-24 02:24:42 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-24 03:04:14 +0300
commita84be61d0e38034634e7cbe076179cc6f1c16d22 (patch)
treeffc357244227cef67eb8330b37bce98e88798d61 /scripts/gdb
parentf197d75fcad125f41cc6e2fdf1b3ea733db995f1 (diff)
downloadlinux-a84be61d0e38034634e7cbe076179cc6f1c16d22.tar.xz
scripts/gdb: provide kernel list item generators
Facilitate linked-list items by providing a generator to return the dereferenced, and type-cast objects from a kernel linked list Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b0998564e6e5abe53585d466f87e491331fd2a4.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/gdb')
-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py
index 3a3775bc162b..2f335fbd86fd 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py
@@ -18,6 +18,27 @@ from linux import utils
list_head = utils.CachedType("struct list_head")
+def list_for_each(head):
+ if head.type == list_head.get_type().pointer():
+ head = head.dereference()
+ elif head.type != list_head.get_type():
+ raise gdb.GdbError("Must be struct list_head not {}"
+ .format(head.type))
+
+ node = head['next'].dereference()
+ while node.address != head.address:
+ yield node.address
+ node = node['next'].dereference()
+
+
+def list_for_each_entry(head, gdbtype, member):
+ for node in list_for_each(head):
+ if node.type != list_head.get_type().pointer():
+ raise TypeError("Type {} found. Expected struct list_head *."
+ .format(node.type))
+ yield utils.container_of(node, gdbtype, member)
+
+
def list_check(head):
nb = 0
if (head.type == list_head.get_type().pointer()):