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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py | 13 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst index 1586901b683c..8e0f1fe8d17a 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Examples of using the Linux-provided gdb helpers [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009fc00-0x000000000009ffff] reserved .... -- Examine fields of the current task struct(supported by x86 only):: +- Examine fields of the current task struct(supported by x86 and arm64 only):: (gdb) p $lx_current().pid $1 = 4998 diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py index f382762509d3..15fc4626d236 100644 --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ import gdb from linux import tasks, utils +task_type = utils.CachedType("struct task_struct") + + MAX_CPUS = 4096 @@ -157,9 +160,19 @@ Note that VAR has to be quoted as string.""" PerCpu() def get_current_task(cpu): + task_ptr_type = task_type.get_type().pointer() + if utils.is_target_arch("x86"): var_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("¤t_task") return per_cpu(var_ptr, cpu).dereference() + elif utils.is_target_arch("aarch64"): + current_task_addr = gdb.parse_and_eval("$SP_EL0") + if((current_task_addr >> 63) != 0): + current_task = current_task_addr.cast(task_ptr_type) + return current_task.dereference() + else: + raise gdb.GdbError("Sorry, obtaining the current task is not allowed " + "while running in userspace(EL0)") else: raise gdb.GdbError("Sorry, obtaining the current task is not yet " "supported with this arch") |