From e78f3d70b3f5b045173961cb9cda16d005ecafa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kieran Bingham Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 16:24:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: provide exception catching parser If we attempt to read a value that is not available to GDB, an exception is raised. Most of the time, this is a good thing; however on occasion we will want to be able to determine if a symbol is available. By catching the exception to simply return None, we can determine if we tried to read an invalid value, without the exception taking our execution context away from us Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c72b25c06fc66e1d68371154097e2cbb112555d8.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py index 0893b326a28b..dbe2ad78048c 100644 --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py @@ -154,3 +154,10 @@ def get_gdbserver_type(): if gdbserver_type is not None and hasattr(gdb, 'events'): gdb.events.exited.connect(exit_handler) return gdbserver_type + + +def gdb_eval_or_none(expresssion): + try: + return gdb.parse_and_eval(expresssion) + except: + return None -- 2.20.1