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| author | Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org> | 2016-05-23 16:24:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -0700 |
| commit | a84be61d0e38034634e7cbe076179cc6f1c16d22 (patch) | |
| tree | ffc357244227cef67eb8330b37bce98e88798d61 /scripts/gdb | |
| parent | f197d75fcad125f41cc6e2fdf1b3ea733db995f1 (diff) | |
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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.py | 21 |
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()): |