scripts/gdb: add version command

lx-version Report the Linux Version of the current kernel. Add a command to identify the version specified by the banner in the debugged kernel. This lets the user identify the kernel of the running kernel, and will let later scripts compare the banner of the attached kernel against the banner in the vmlinux symbols files to verify that the files are correct. [[email protected]: remove blank line from help output and fix pep8 warning] Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> Cc: Jason Wessel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
dabrace · Mar 22, 2016 · 2d061d9 · 2d061d9
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diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#
+# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging
+#
+#  Kernel proc information reader
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2016 Linaro Ltd
+#
+# Authors:
+#  Kieran Bingham <[email protected]>
+#
+# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
+#
+
+import gdb
+
+
+class LxVersion(gdb.Command):
+    """ Report the Linux Version of the current kernel.
+        Equivalent to cat /proc/version on a running target"""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(LxVersion, self).__init__("lx-version", gdb.COMMAND_DATA)
+
+    def invoke(self, arg, from_tty):
+        # linux_banner should contain a newline
+        gdb.write(gdb.parse_and_eval("linux_banner").string())
+
+LxVersion()
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py b/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
@@ -29,3 +29,4 @@
     import linux.tasks
     import linux.cpus
     import linux.lists
+    import linux.proc