linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Handle split debug for vmlinux

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Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:00:01 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
        Kieran Bingham <kbingham@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Handle split debug for vmlinux

Quoting Douglas Anderson (2021-10-28 14:08:49)
> This is related to two previous changes. Commit dfe4529ee4d3
> ("scripts/gdb: find vmlinux where it was before") and commit
> da036ae14762 ("scripts/gdb: handle split debug").
>
> Although Chrome OS has been using the debug suffix for modules for a
> while, it has just recently started using it for vmlinux as well. That
> means we've now got to improve the detection of "vmlinux" to also
> handle that it might end with ".debug".
>
> Cc: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
> ---
>
>  scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py | 3 ++-
>  scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py   | 0
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  mode change 100644 => 100755 scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
>
> diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
> index 08d264ac328b..46f7542db08c 100644
> --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
> +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
> @@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ lx-symbols command."""
>          # drop all current symbols and reload vmlinux
>          orig_vmlinux = 'vmlinux'
>          for obj in gdb.objfiles():
> -            if obj.filename.endswith('vmlinux'):
> +            if (obj.filename.endswith('vmlinux') or
> +                obj.filename.endswith('vmlinux.debug')):

Looks good.

>                  orig_vmlinux = obj.filename
>          gdb.execute("symbol-file", to_string=True)
>          gdb.execute("symbol-file {0}".format(orig_vmlinux))
> diff --git a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
> old mode 100644
> new mode 100755

Is this mode change important?