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1#
2# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging
3#
4# common utilities
5#
6# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2011-2013
7#
8# Authors:
9# Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
10#
11# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
12#
13
14import gdb
15
16
17class CachedType:
18 def __init__(self, name):
19 self._type = None
20 self._name = name
21
22 def _new_objfile_handler(self, event):
23 self._type = None
24 gdb.events.new_objfile.disconnect(self._new_objfile_handler)
25
26 def get_type(self):
27 if self._type is None:
28 self._type = gdb.lookup_type(self._name)
29 if self._type is None:
30 raise gdb.GdbError(
31 "cannot resolve type '{0}'".format(self._name))
32 if hasattr(gdb, 'events') and hasattr(gdb.events, 'new_objfile'):
33 gdb.events.new_objfile.connect(self._new_objfile_handler)
34 return self._type
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35
36
37long_type = CachedType("long")
38
39
40def get_long_type():
41 global long_type
42 return long_type.get_type()
43
44
45def offset_of(typeobj, field):
46 element = gdb.Value(0).cast(typeobj)
47 return int(str(element[field].address).split()[0], 16)
48
49
50def container_of(ptr, typeobj, member):
51 return (ptr.cast(get_long_type()) -
52 offset_of(typeobj, member)).cast(typeobj)
53
54
55class ContainerOf(gdb.Function):
56 """Return pointer to containing data structure.
57
58$container_of(PTR, "TYPE", "ELEMENT"): Given PTR, return a pointer to the
59data structure of the type TYPE in which PTR is the address of ELEMENT.
60Note that TYPE and ELEMENT have to be quoted as strings."""
61
62 def __init__(self):
63 super(ContainerOf, self).__init__("container_of")
64
65 def invoke(self, ptr, typename, elementname):
66 return container_of(ptr, gdb.lookup_type(typename.string()).pointer(),
67 elementname.string())
68
494dbe02 69
b0fecd8c 70ContainerOf()
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71
72
73BIG_ENDIAN = 0
74LITTLE_ENDIAN = 1
75target_endianness = None
76
77
78def get_target_endianness():
79 global target_endianness
80 if target_endianness is None:
81 endian = gdb.execute("show endian", to_string=True)
82 if "little endian" in endian:
83 target_endianness = LITTLE_ENDIAN
84 elif "big endian" in endian:
85 target_endianness = BIG_ENDIAN
86 else:
a2e73c48 87 raise gdb.GdbError("unknown endianness '{0}'".format(str(endian)))
7f994963 88 return target_endianness
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89
90
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91def read_memoryview(inf, start, length):
92 return memoryview(inf.read_memory(start, length))
93
94
78e87817 95def read_u16(buffer):
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96 value = [0, 0]
97
98 if type(buffer[0]) is str:
99 value[0] = ord(buffer[0])
100 value[1] = ord(buffer[1])
101 else:
102 value[0] = buffer[0]
103 value[1] = buffer[1]
104
78e87817 105 if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
321958d9 106 return value[0] + (value[1] << 8)
78e87817 107 else:
321958d9 108 return value[1] + (value[0] << 8)
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109
110
111def read_u32(buffer):
112 if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
113 return read_u16(buffer[0:2]) + (read_u16(buffer[2:4]) << 16)
114 else:
115 return read_u16(buffer[2:4]) + (read_u16(buffer[0:2]) << 16)
116
117
118def read_u64(buffer):
119 if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
120 return read_u32(buffer[0:4]) + (read_u32(buffer[4:8]) << 32)
121 else:
122 return read_u32(buffer[4:8]) + (read_u32(buffer[0:4]) << 32)
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123
124
125target_arch = None
126
127
128def is_target_arch(arch):
129 if hasattr(gdb.Frame, 'architecture'):
130 return arch in gdb.newest_frame().architecture().name()
131 else:
132 global target_arch
133 if target_arch is None:
134 target_arch = gdb.execute("show architecture", to_string=True)
135 return arch in target_arch
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136
137
138GDBSERVER_QEMU = 0
139GDBSERVER_KGDB = 1
140gdbserver_type = None
141
142
143def get_gdbserver_type():
144 def exit_handler(event):
145 global gdbserver_type
146 gdbserver_type = None
147 gdb.events.exited.disconnect(exit_handler)
148
149 def probe_qemu():
150 try:
151 return gdb.execute("monitor info version", to_string=True) != ""
494dbe02 152 except gdb.error:
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153 return False
154
155 def probe_kgdb():
156 try:
157 thread_info = gdb.execute("info thread 2", to_string=True)
158 return "shadowCPU0" in thread_info
494dbe02 159 except gdb.error:
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160 return False
161
162 global gdbserver_type
163 if gdbserver_type is None:
164 if probe_qemu():
165 gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_QEMU
166 elif probe_kgdb():
167 gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_KGDB
6ad18b73 168 if gdbserver_type is not None and hasattr(gdb, 'events'):
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169 gdb.events.exited.connect(exit_handler)
170 return gdbserver_type
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171
172
173def gdb_eval_or_none(expresssion):
174 try:
175 return gdb.parse_and_eval(expresssion)
494dbe02 176 except gdb.error:
e78f3d70 177 return None
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178
179
180def dentry_name(d):
181 parent = d['d_parent']
182 if parent == d or parent == 0:
183 return ""
184 p = dentry_name(d['d_parent']) + "/"
185 return p + d['d_iname'].string()