linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 10/21] scripts/gdb: Add read

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Message-Id: <c509d486dad4e1344419e2d187401891f49d4b05.1384240478.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:14:28 +0100
From:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Tom Tromey <tromey@...hat.com>,
	Ben Widawsky <ben@...dawsk.net>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Tatiana Al-Chueyr Martins <tatiana.alchueyr@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 10/21] scripts/gdb: Add read_u16/32/64 helpers

Add helpers for reading integers from target memory buffers. Required
when caching the memory access is more efficient than reading individual
values via gdb.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
---
 scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
index 10a227b..808a265 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
@@ -85,3 +85,24 @@ def get_target_endianness():
         else:
             raise gdb.GdgError("unknown endianness '{0}'".format(endian))
     return target_endianness
+
+
+def read_u16(buffer):
+    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8)
+    else:
+        return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8)
+
+
+def read_u32(buffer):
+    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        return read_u16(buffer[0:2]) + (read_u16(buffer[2:4]) << 16)
+    else:
+        return read_u16(buffer[2:4]) + (read_u16(buffer[0:2]) << 16)
+
+
+def read_u64(buffer):
+    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        return read_u32(buffer[0:4]) + (read_u32(buffer[4:8]) << 32)
+    else:
+        return read_u32(buffer[4:8]) + (read_u32(buffer[0:4]) << 32)
-- 
1.8.1.1.298.ge7eed54

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