Commit 4ebc417e authored by Jan Kiszka's avatar Jan Kiszka Committed by Andrew Morton
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scripts/gdb: fix aarch64 userspace detection in get_current_task 

At least recent gdb releases (seen with 14.2) return SP_EL0 as signed long
which lets the right-shift always return 0.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dcd2fabc-9131-4b48-8419-6444e2d67454@siemens.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent a479b078

scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py

+1 −1
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@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def get_current_task(cpu): 
            var_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("&pcpu_hot.current_task")

            return per_cpu(var_ptr, cpu).dereference()

    elif utils.is_target_arch("aarch64"):

        current_task_addr = gdb.parse_and_eval("$SP_EL0")

        current_task_addr = gdb.parse_and_eval("(unsigned long)$SP_EL0")

        if (current_task_addr >> 63) != 0:

            current_task = current_task_addr.cast(task_ptr_type)

            return current_task.dereference()