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Subject[PATCH v7 15/21] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info
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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@intel.com>
CC: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
CC: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.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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