linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 09/21] scripts/gdb: Add get_target

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Message-Id: <877dea27436bbf4265a9444745fa7059bc50d4e3.1384240478.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:14:27 +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 09/21] scripts/gdb: Add get_target_endianness helper

Parse the target endianness from the output of "show endian" and cache
the result to return it via the new helper get_target_endiannes. We will
need it for reading integers from buffers that contain target memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
---
 scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
index c9d705b..10a227b 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
@@ -67,3 +67,21 @@ Note that TYPE and ELEMENT have to be quoted as strings."""
                             elementname.string())
 
 ContainerOf()
+
+
+BIG_ENDIAN = 0
+LITTLE_ENDIAN = 1
+target_endianness = None
+
+
+def get_target_endianness():
+    global target_endianness
+    if target_endianness is None:
+        endian = gdb.execute("show endian", to_string=True)
+        if "little endian" in endian:
+            target_endianness = LITTLE_ENDIAN
+        elif "big endian" in endian:
+            target_endianness = BIG_ENDIAN
+        else:
+            raise gdb.GdgError("unknown endianness '{0}'".format(endian))
+    return target_endianness
-- 
1.8.1.1.298.ge7eed54

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