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authorJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>2015-02-17 13:47:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-17 14:34:54 -0800
commit116b47b4da037547585cebe4e3275ef68905d509 (patch)
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scripts/gdb: add lx_current convenience function
This is a shorthand for *$lx_per_cpu("current_task"), i.e. a convenience function to retrieve the currently running task of the active context. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py
index 18337e0..b683da9 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py
@@ -66,3 +66,20 @@ Note that VAR has to be quoted as string."""
PerCpu()
+
+
+class LxCurrentFunc(gdb.Function):
+ """Return current task.
+
+$lx_current([CPU]): Return the per-cpu task variable for the given CPU
+number. If CPU is omitted, the CPU of the current context is used."""
+
+ def __init__(self):
+ super(LxCurrentFunc, self).__init__("lx_current")
+
+ def invoke(self, cpu=-1):
+ var_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("&current_task")
+ return per_cpu(var_ptr, cpu).dereference()
+
+
+LxCurrentFunc()
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