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authorKieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>2016-03-22 14:27:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-22 15:36:02 -0700
commit2d061d999424efd99e30fa4115c7dced07533223 (patch)
tree1459a037fc955e97e92e18d18609c95a18524382
parent5c9a8750a6409c63a0f01d51a9024861022f6593 (diff)
scripts/gdb: add version command
lx-version Report the Linux Version of the current kernel. Add a command to identify the version specified by the banner in the debugged kernel. This lets the user identify the kernel of the running kernel, and will let later scripts compare the banner of the attached kernel against the banner in the vmlinux symbols files to verify that the files are correct. [jan.kiszka@siemens.com: remove blank line from help output and fix pep8 warning] Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py28
-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py1
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8a733dd99580
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#
+# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging
+#
+# Kernel proc information reader
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2016 Linaro Ltd
+#
+# Authors:
+# Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
+#
+# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
+#
+
+import gdb
+
+
+class LxVersion(gdb.Command):
+ """ Report the Linux Version of the current kernel.
+ Equivalent to cat /proc/version on a running target"""
+
+ def __init__(self):
+ super(LxVersion, self).__init__("lx-version", gdb.COMMAND_DATA)
+
+ def invoke(self, arg, from_tty):
+ # linux_banner should contain a newline
+ gdb.write(gdb.parse_and_eval("linux_banner").string())
+
+LxVersion()
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
index ce82bf5c3943..d5943eca19cd 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
@@ -29,3 +29,4 @@ else:
import linux.tasks
import linux.cpus
import linux.lists
+ import linux.proc