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authorDom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@gmail.com>2016-05-23 16:25:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-23 17:04:14 -0700
commit321958d9710c33e74ec98c0f3c96aa2a5dbe3008 (patch)
tree42b41280311a6afb47f0a9a5a3b9cb1e28f60c95 /scripts/gdb
parent9f66dee720984edcbc6ea07ad70fe5b8f0421c04 (diff)
downloadlinux-321958d9710c33e74ec98c0f3c96aa2a5dbe3008.tar.bz2
scripts/gdb: improve types abstraction for gdb python scripts
Change the read_u16 function so it accepts both 'str' and 'byte' as type for the arguments. When calling read_memory() from gdb API, depending on if it was built with 2.7 or 3.X, the format used to return the data will differ ( 'str' for 2.7, and 'byte' for 3.X ). Add a function read_memoryview() to be able to get a 'memoryview' object back from read_memory() both with python 2.7 and 3.X . Tested with python 3.4 and 2.7 Tested with gdb 7.7 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/73621f564503137a002a639d174e4fb35f73f462.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com Signed-off-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@gmail.com> Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz> (Py2.7,Py3.4,GDB10) Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/gdb')
-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py17
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
index de03a6b505bb..50805874cfc3 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
@@ -87,11 +87,24 @@ def get_target_endianness():
return target_endianness
+def read_memoryview(inf, start, length):
+ return memoryview(inf.read_memory(start, length))
+
+
def read_u16(buffer):
+ value = [0, 0]
+
+ if type(buffer[0]) is str:
+ value[0] = ord(buffer[0])
+ value[1] = ord(buffer[1])
+ else:
+ value[0] = buffer[0]
+ value[1] = buffer[1]
+
if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
- return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8)
+ return value[0] + (value[1] << 8)
else:
- return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8)
+ return value[1] + (value[0] << 8)
def read_u32(buffer):