linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 08/21] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to look up a module

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Message-Id: <37b0912dabd0dc7e7d4d4dd33be24e9024f03468.1384240478.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:14:26 +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 08/21] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to look up a module

Add the internal helper get_module_by_name to obtain the module
structure corresponding to the given name. Also export this service as a
convenience function.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
---
 scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py   |  1 +
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
index 8a65c3d..531f763 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
@@ -37,3 +37,31 @@ class ModuleList:
             return utils.container_of(entry, self.module_ptr_type, "list")
         else:
             raise StopIteration
+
+
+def find_module_by_name(name):
+    for module in ModuleList():
+        if module['name'].string() == name:
+            return module
+    return None
+
+
+class LxModule(gdb.Function):
+    """Find module by name and return the module variable.
+
+$lx_module("MODULE"): Given the name MODULE, iterate over all loaded modules
+of the target and return that module variable which MODULE matches."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(LxModule, self).__init__("lx_module")
+
+    def invoke(self, mod_name):
+        mod_name = mod_name.string()
+        module = find_module_by_name(mod_name)
+        if module:
+            return module.dereference()
+        else:
+            raise gdb.GdbError("Unable to find MODULE " + mod_name)
+
+
+LxModule()
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
index 0b0faa4..cf2e716 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ except:
 else:
     import linux.utils
     import linux.symbols
+    import linux.modules
-- 
1.8.1.1.298.ge7eed54

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