scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py- Extension
.py- Size
- 1314 bytes
- Lines
- 53
- 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.
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
#
# loader module
#
# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2012, 2013
#
# Authors:
# Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
#
# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
#
import os
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + "/scripts/gdb")
try:
gdb.parse_and_eval("0")
gdb.execute("", to_string=True)
except:
gdb.write("NOTE: gdb 7.2 or later required for Linux helper scripts to "
"work.\n")
else:
import linux.constants
if linux.constants.LX_CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED:
raise gdb.GdbError("Reduced debug information will prevent GDB "
"from having complete types.\n")
import linux.utils
import linux.symbols
import linux.modules
import linux.dmesg
import linux.tasks
import linux.config
import linux.cpus
import linux.lists
import linux.rbtree
import linux.proc
import linux.timerlist
import linux.clk
import linux.genpd
import linux.device
import linux.vfs
import linux.pgtable
import linux.radixtree
import linux.interrupts
import linux.mm
import linux.stackdepot
import linux.page_owner
import linux.slab
import linux.vmalloc
import linux.kasan
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.