From cf7492e933c0df200f8fa46c3684e8bd20890ab2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kiszka Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:47:15 -0800 Subject: scripts/gdb: add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info Add the internal helper get_thread_info that calculates the thread_info from a given task variable. Also export this service as a convenience function. Note: ia64 version is untested. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Jason Wessel Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Ben Widawsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) (limited to 'scripts/gdb') diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py index 13bb97cd3312..63cd6c517e6d 100644 --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py @@ -71,3 +71,38 @@ return that task_struct variable which PID matches.""" 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() -- cgit v1.2.3