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authorJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>2015-02-17 13:47:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-17 14:34:54 -0800
commitb24e2d21ac6efd23a67652870fac0cfb943d2264 (patch)
tree49bdec5b6c0bd6685ab2f7e2782659d3552689d0 /scripts
parent4752871081ba4fbb3c539488a95e77d8011bfe49 (diff)
scripts/gdb: add is_target_arch helper
This helper caches to result of "show architecture" and matches the provided arch (sub-)string against that output. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
index 808a26596827..71ee48ceb2b2 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
@@ -106,3 +106,16 @@ def read_u64(buffer):
return read_u32(buffer[0:4]) + (read_u32(buffer[4:8]) << 32)
else:
return read_u32(buffer[4:8]) + (read_u32(buffer[0:4]) << 32)
+
+
+target_arch = None
+
+
+def is_target_arch(arch):
+ if hasattr(gdb.Frame, 'architecture'):
+ return arch in gdb.newest_frame().architecture().name()
+ else:
+ global target_arch
+ if target_arch is None:
+ target_arch = gdb.execute("show architecture", to_string=True)
+ return arch in target_arch