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1#
2# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging
3#
4#  common utilities
5#
6# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2011-2013
7#
8# Authors:
9#  Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
10#
11# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
12#
13
14import gdb
15
16
17class CachedType:
18    def __init__(self, name):
19        self._type = None
20        self._name = name
21
22    def _new_objfile_handler(self, event):
23        self._type = None
24        gdb.events.new_objfile.disconnect(self._new_objfile_handler)
25
26    def get_type(self):
27        if self._type is None:
28            self._type = gdb.lookup_type(self._name)
29            if self._type is None:
30                raise gdb.GdbError(
31                    "cannot resolve type '{0}'".format(self._name))
32            if hasattr(gdb, 'events') and hasattr(gdb.events, 'new_objfile'):
33                gdb.events.new_objfile.connect(self._new_objfile_handler)
34        return self._type
35
36
37long_type = CachedType("long")
38
39
40def get_long_type():
41    global long_type
42    return long_type.get_type()
43
44
45def offset_of(typeobj, field):
46    element = gdb.Value(0).cast(typeobj)
47    return int(str(element[field].address).split()[0], 16)
48
49
50def container_of(ptr, typeobj, member):
51    return (ptr.cast(get_long_type()) -
52            offset_of(typeobj, member)).cast(typeobj)
53
54
55class ContainerOf(gdb.Function):
56    """Return pointer to containing data structure.
57
58$container_of(PTR, "TYPE", "ELEMENT"): Given PTR, return a pointer to the
59data structure of the type TYPE in which PTR is the address of ELEMENT.
60Note that TYPE and ELEMENT have to be quoted as strings."""
61
62    def __init__(self):
63        super(ContainerOf, self).__init__("container_of")
64
65    def invoke(self, ptr, typename, elementname):
66        return container_of(ptr, gdb.lookup_type(typename.string()).pointer(),
67                            elementname.string())
68
69ContainerOf()
70
71
72BIG_ENDIAN = 0
73LITTLE_ENDIAN = 1
74target_endianness = None
75
76
77def get_target_endianness():
78    global target_endianness
79    if target_endianness is None:
80        endian = gdb.execute("show endian", to_string=True)
81        if "little endian" in endian:
82            target_endianness = LITTLE_ENDIAN
83        elif "big endian" in endian:
84            target_endianness = BIG_ENDIAN
85        else:
86            raise gdb.GdbError("unknown endianness '{0}'".format(str(endian)))
87    return target_endianness
88
89
90def read_u16(buffer):
91    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
92        return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8)
93    else:
94        return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8)
95
96
97def read_u32(buffer):
98    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
99        return read_u16(buffer[0:2]) + (read_u16(buffer[2:4]) << 16)
100    else:
101        return read_u16(buffer[2:4]) + (read_u16(buffer[0:2]) << 16)
102
103
104def read_u64(buffer):
105    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
106        return read_u32(buffer[0:4]) + (read_u32(buffer[4:8]) << 32)
107    else:
108        return read_u32(buffer[4:8]) + (read_u32(buffer[0:4]) << 32)
109
110
111target_arch = None
112
113
114def is_target_arch(arch):
115    if hasattr(gdb.Frame, 'architecture'):
116        return arch in gdb.newest_frame().architecture().name()
117    else:
118        global target_arch
119        if target_arch is None:
120            target_arch = gdb.execute("show architecture", to_string=True)
121        return arch in target_arch
122
123
124GDBSERVER_QEMU = 0
125GDBSERVER_KGDB = 1
126gdbserver_type = None
127
128
129def get_gdbserver_type():
130    def exit_handler(event):
131        global gdbserver_type
132        gdbserver_type = None
133        gdb.events.exited.disconnect(exit_handler)
134
135    def probe_qemu():
136        try:
137            return gdb.execute("monitor info version", to_string=True) != ""
138        except:
139            return False
140
141    def probe_kgdb():
142        try:
143            thread_info = gdb.execute("info thread 2", to_string=True)
144            return "shadowCPU0" in thread_info
145        except:
146            return False
147
148    global gdbserver_type
149    if gdbserver_type is None:
150        if probe_qemu():
151            gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_QEMU
152        elif probe_kgdb():
153            gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_KGDB
154        if gdbserver_type is not None and hasattr(gdb, 'events'):
155            gdb.events.exited.connect(exit_handler)
156    return gdbserver_type
157