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-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py28
-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py1
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
index 8a65c3d..531f763 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
@@ -37,3 +37,31 @@ class ModuleList:
return utils.container_of(entry, self.module_ptr_type, "list")
else:
raise StopIteration
+
+
+def find_module_by_name(name):
+ for module in ModuleList():
+ if module['name'].string() == name:
+ return module
+ return None
+
+
+class LxModule(gdb.Function):
+ """Find module by name and return the module variable.
+
+$lx_module("MODULE"): Given the name MODULE, iterate over all loaded modules
+of the target and return that module variable which MODULE matches."""
+
+ def __init__(self):
+ super(LxModule, self).__init__("lx_module")
+
+ def invoke(self, mod_name):
+ mod_name = mod_name.string()
+ module = find_module_by_name(mod_name)
+ if module:
+ return module.dereference()
+ else:
+ raise gdb.GdbError("Unable to find MODULE " + mod_name)
+
+
+LxModule()
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
index 0b0faa4..cf2e716 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ except:
else:
import linux.utils
import linux.symbols
+ import linux.modules
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