linux-kernel - [PATCH v9 15/23] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread

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Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:21:30 +0200
From:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	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>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v9 15/23] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info

Add the internal helper get_thread_info that calculates the thread_info
from a given task variable. Also export this service as a convenience
function.

Note: ia64 version is untested.

CC: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
CC: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
CC: linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
---
 scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py
index 13bb97c..63cd6c5 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/tasks.py
@@ -71,3 +71,38 @@ return that task_struct variable which PID matches."""
 
 
 LxTaskByPidFunc()
+
+
+thread_info_type = utils.CachedType("struct thread_info")
+
+ia64_task_size = None
+
+
+def get_thread_info(task):
+    global thread_info_type
+    thread_info_ptr_type = thread_info_type.get_type().pointer()
+    if utils.is_target_arch("ia64"):
+        global ia64_task_size
+        if ia64_task_size is None:
+            ia64_task_size = gdb.parse_and_eval("sizeof(struct task_struct)")
+        thread_info_addr = task.address + ia64_task_size
+        thread_info = thread_info_addr.cast(thread_info_ptr_type)
+    else:
+        thread_info = task['stack'].cast(thread_info_ptr_type)
+    return thread_info.dereference()
+
+
+class LxThreadInfoFunc (gdb.Function):
+    """Calculate Linux thread_info from task variable.
+
+$lx_thread_info(TASK): Given TASK, return the corresponding thread_info
+variable."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(LxThreadInfoFunc, self).__init__("lx_thread_info")
+
+    def invoke(self, task):
+        return get_thread_info(task)
+
+
+LxThreadInfoFunc()
-- 
1.8.1.1.298.ge7eed54

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