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-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py28
-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py1
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8a733dd99580
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#
+# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging
+#
+# Kernel proc information reader
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2016 Linaro Ltd
+#
+# Authors:
+# Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
+#
+# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
+#
+
+import gdb
+
+
+class LxVersion(gdb.Command):
+ """ Report the Linux Version of the current kernel.
+ Equivalent to cat /proc/version on a running target"""
+
+ def __init__(self):
+ super(LxVersion, self).__init__("lx-version", gdb.COMMAND_DATA)
+
+ def invoke(self, arg, from_tty):
+ # linux_banner should contain a newline
+ gdb.write(gdb.parse_and_eval("linux_banner").string())
+
+LxVersion()
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
index ce82bf5c3943..d5943eca19cd 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
@@ -29,3 +29,4 @@ else:
import linux.tasks
import linux.cpus
import linux.lists
+ import linux.proc