scripts/gdb: provide a dentry_name VFS path helper
authorKieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Mon, 23 May 2016 23:24:53 +0000 (16:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 24 May 2016 00:04:14 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
Walk the VFS entries, pre-pending the iname strings to generate a full
VFS path name from a dentry.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4328fdb2d15ba7f1b21ad21c2eecc38d9cfc4d13.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py

index dbe2ad78048cb6908d357847463b4cf50eff45f8..de03a6b505bbe0707d588350c6f3f1d6bd3dae9f 100644 (file)
@@ -161,3 +161,11 @@ def gdb_eval_or_none(expresssion):
         return gdb.parse_and_eval(expresssion)
     except:
         return None
+
+
+def dentry_name(d):
+    parent = d['d_parent']
+    if parent == d or parent == 0:
+        return ""
+    p = dentry_name(d['d_parent']) + "/"
+    return p + d['d_iname'].string()