Commit 6d51363d authored by Glenn Washburn's avatar Glenn Washburn Committed by Andrew Morton
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scripts/gdb: support getting current task struct in UML 

A running x86 UML kernel reports with architecture "i386:x86-64" as it is
a sub-architecture.  However, a difference with bare-metal x86 kernels is
in how it manages tasks and the current task struct.  To identify that the
inferior is a UML kernel and not bare-metal, check for the existence of
the UML specific symbol "cpu_tasks" which contains the current task
struct.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b839d611e2906ccef2725c34d8e353fab35fe75e.1677469905.git.development@efficientek.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGlenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@kot-begemot.co.uk>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 56fe4870

scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py

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@@ -163,6 +163,12 @@ def get_current_task(cpu): 
    task_ptr_type = task_type.get_type().pointer()



    if utils.is_target_arch("x86"):

        if gdb.lookup_global_symbol("cpu_tasks"):

            # This is a UML kernel, which stores the current task

            # differently than other x86 sub architectures

            var_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("(struct task_struct *)cpu_tasks[0].task")

            return var_ptr.dereference()

        else:

            var_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("&pcpu_hot.current_task")

            return per_cpu(var_ptr, cpu).dereference()

    elif utils.is_target_arch("aarch64"):