scripts/gdb/linux/vmalloc.py
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/gdb/linux/vmalloc.py
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
scripts/gdb/linux/vmalloc.py- Extension
.py- Size
- 2387 bytes
- Lines
- 63
- 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.
- Allocates kernel memory; connect allocation flags and lifetime to context constraints.
- 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
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# Copyright (c) 2023 MediaTek Inc.
#
# Authors:
# Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee@mediatek.com>
#
import gdb
import re
from linux import lists, utils, stackdepot, constants, mm
if constants.LX_CONFIG_MMU:
vmap_area_type = utils.CachedType('struct vmap_area')
vmap_area_ptr_type = vmap_area_type.get_type().pointer()
def is_vmalloc_addr(x):
pg_ops = mm.page_ops().ops
addr = pg_ops.kasan_reset_tag(x)
return addr >= pg_ops.VMALLOC_START and addr < pg_ops.VMALLOC_END
class LxVmallocInfo(gdb.Command):
"""Show vmallocinfo"""
def __init__(self):
super(LxVmallocInfo, self).__init__("lx-vmallocinfo", gdb.COMMAND_DATA)
def invoke(self, arg, from_tty):
if not constants.LX_CONFIG_MMU:
raise gdb.GdbError("Requires MMU support")
nr_vmap_nodes = gdb.parse_and_eval('nr_vmap_nodes')
for i in range(0, nr_vmap_nodes):
vn = gdb.parse_and_eval('&vmap_nodes[%d]' % i)
for vmap_area in lists.list_for_each_entry(vn['busy']['head'], vmap_area_ptr_type, "list"):
if not vmap_area['vm']:
gdb.write("0x%x-0x%x %10d vm_map_ram\n" % (vmap_area['va_start'], vmap_area['va_end'],
vmap_area['va_end'] - vmap_area['va_start']))
continue
v = vmap_area['vm']
gdb.write("0x%x-0x%x %10d" % (v['addr'], v['addr'] + v['size'], v['size']))
if v['caller']:
gdb.write(" %s" % str(v['caller']).split(' ')[-1])
if v['nr_pages']:
gdb.write(" pages=%d" % v['nr_pages'])
if v['phys_addr']:
gdb.write(" phys=0x%x" % v['phys_addr'])
if v['flags'] & constants.LX_VM_IOREMAP:
gdb.write(" ioremap")
if v['flags'] & constants.LX_VM_ALLOC:
gdb.write(" vmalloc")
if v['flags'] & constants.LX_VM_MAP:
gdb.write(" vmap")
if v['flags'] & constants.LX_VM_USERMAP:
gdb.write(" user")
if v['flags'] & constants.LX_VM_DMA_COHERENT:
gdb.write(" dma-coherent")
if is_vmalloc_addr(v['pages']):
gdb.write(" vpages")
gdb.write("\n")
LxVmallocInfo()
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.