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>

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..8a733dd
--- /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 ce82bf5c394321674d40d1cb247ea2a0afcf10bd..d5943eca19cd63ca1b57f2737e3507ba0879aebf 100644 (file)
--- 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