kernel/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py

   1 #
   2 # gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging
   3 #
   4 #  common utilities
   5 #
   6 # Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2011-2013
   7 #
   8 # Authors:
   9 #  Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
  10 #
  11 # This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
  12 #
  13
  14 import gdb
  15
  16
  17 class CachedType:
  18     def __init__(self, name):
  19         self._type = None
  20         self._name = name
  21
  22     def _new_objfile_handler(self, event):
  23         self._type = None
  24         gdb.events.new_objfile.disconnect(self._new_objfile_handler)
  25
  26     def get_type(self):
  27         if self._type is None:
  28             self._type = gdb.lookup_type(self._name)
  29             if self._type is None:
  30                 raise gdb.GdbError(
  31                     "cannot resolve type '{0}'".format(self._name))
  32             if hasattr(gdb, 'events') and hasattr(gdb.events, 'new_objfile'):
  33                 gdb.events.new_objfile.connect(self._new_objfile_handler)
  34         return self._type
  35
  36
  37 long_type = CachedType("long")
  38
  39
  40 def get_long_type():
  41     global long_type
  42     return long_type.get_type()
  43
  44
  45 def offset_of(typeobj, field):
  46     element = gdb.Value(0).cast(typeobj)
  47     return int(str(element[field].address).split()[0], 16)
  48
  49
  50 def container_of(ptr, typeobj, member):
  51     return (ptr.cast(get_long_type()) -
  52             offset_of(typeobj, member)).cast(typeobj)
  53
  54
  55 class ContainerOf(gdb.Function):
  56     """Return pointer to containing data structure.
  57
  58 $container_of(PTR, "TYPE", "ELEMENT"): Given PTR, return a pointer to the
  59 data structure of the type TYPE in which PTR is the address of ELEMENT.
  60 Note that TYPE and ELEMENT have to be quoted as strings."""
  61
  62     def __init__(self):
  63         super(ContainerOf, self).__init__("container_of")
  64
  65     def invoke(self, ptr, typename, elementname):
  66         return container_of(ptr, gdb.lookup_type(typename.string()).pointer(),
  67                             elementname.string())
  68
  69 ContainerOf()
  70
  71
  72 BIG_ENDIAN = 0
  73 LITTLE_ENDIAN = 1
  74 target_endianness = None
  75
  76
  77 def get_target_endianness():
  78     global target_endianness
  79     if target_endianness is None:
  80         endian = gdb.execute("show endian", to_string=True)
  81         if "little endian" in endian:
  82             target_endianness = LITTLE_ENDIAN
  83         elif "big endian" in endian:
  84             target_endianness = BIG_ENDIAN
  85         else:
  86             raise gdb.GdgError("unknown endianness '{0}'".format(str(endian)))
  87     return target_endianness
  88
  89
  90 def read_u16(buffer):
  91     if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
  92         return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8)
  93     else:
  94         return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8)
  95
  96
  97 def read_u32(buffer):
  98     if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
  99         return read_u16(buffer[0:2]) + (read_u16(buffer[2:4]) << 16)
 100     else:
 101         return read_u16(buffer[2:4]) + (read_u16(buffer[0:2]) << 16)
 102
 103
 104 def read_u64(buffer):
 105     if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
 106         return read_u32(buffer[0:4]) + (read_u32(buffer[4:8]) << 32)
 107     else:
 108         return read_u32(buffer[4:8]) + (read_u32(buffer[0:4]) << 32)
 109
 110
 111 target_arch = None
 112
 113
 114 def is_target_arch(arch):
 115     if hasattr(gdb.Frame, 'architecture'):
 116         return arch in gdb.newest_frame().architecture().name()
 117     else:
 118         global target_arch
 119         if target_arch is None:
 120             target_arch = gdb.execute("show architecture", to_string=True)
 121         return arch in target_arch
 122
 123
 124 GDBSERVER_QEMU = 0
 125 GDBSERVER_KGDB = 1
 126 gdbserver_type = None
 127
 128
 129 def get_gdbserver_type():
 130     def exit_handler(event):
 131         global gdbserver_type
 132         gdbserver_type = None
 133         gdb.events.exited.disconnect(exit_handler)
 134
 135     def probe_qemu():
 136         try:
 137             return gdb.execute("monitor info version", to_string=True) != ""
 138         except:
 139             return False
 140
 141     def probe_kgdb():
 142         try:
 143             thread_info = gdb.execute("info thread 2", to_string=True)
 144             return "shadowCPU0" in thread_info
 145         except:
 146             return False
 147
 148     global gdbserver_type
 149     if gdbserver_type is None:
 150         if probe_qemu():
 151             gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_QEMU
 152         elif probe_kgdb():
 153             gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_KGDB
 154         if not gdbserver_type is None and hasattr(gdb, 'events'):
 155             gdb.events.exited.connect(exit_handler)
 156     return gdbserver_type