scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py- Extension
.py- Size
- 12935 bytes
- Lines
- 339
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- scripts
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: scripts
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
#
# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging
#
# load kernel and module symbols
#
# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2011-2013
#
# Authors:
# Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
#
# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
#
import atexit
import gdb
import os
import re
import struct
from itertools import count
from linux import bpf, constants, modules, utils
if hasattr(gdb, 'Breakpoint'):
class LoadModuleBreakpoint(gdb.Breakpoint):
def __init__(self, spec, gdb_command):
super(LoadModuleBreakpoint, self).__init__(spec, internal=True)
self.silent = True
self.gdb_command = gdb_command
def stop(self):
module = gdb.parse_and_eval("mod")
module_name = module['name'].string()
cmd = self.gdb_command
# enforce update if object file is not found
cmd.module_files_updated = False
# Disable pagination while reporting symbol (re-)loading.
# The console input is blocked in this context so that we would
# get stuck waiting for the user to acknowledge paged output.
with utils.pagination_off():
if module_name in cmd.loaded_modules:
gdb.write("refreshing all symbols to reload module "
"'{0}'\n".format(module_name))
cmd.load_all_symbols()
else:
cmd.load_module_symbols(module)
return False
def get_vmcore_s390():
with utils.qemu_phy_mem_mode():
vmcore_info = 0x0e0c
paddr_vmcoreinfo_note = gdb.parse_and_eval("*(unsigned long long *)" +
hex(vmcore_info))
if paddr_vmcoreinfo_note == 0 or paddr_vmcoreinfo_note & 1:
# In the early boot case, extract vm_layout.kaslr_offset from the
# vmlinux image in physical memory.
if paddr_vmcoreinfo_note == 0:
kaslr_offset_phys = 0
else:
kaslr_offset_phys = paddr_vmcoreinfo_note - 1
with utils.pagination_off():
gdb.execute("symbol-file {0} -o {1}".format(
utils.get_vmlinux(), hex(kaslr_offset_phys)))
kaslr_offset = gdb.parse_and_eval("vm_layout.kaslr_offset")
return "KERNELOFFSET=" + hex(kaslr_offset)[2:]
inferior = gdb.selected_inferior()
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / scripts.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.