scripts/gdb: add container_of helper and convenience function
authorJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:46:41 +0000 (13:46 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:34:53 +0000 (14:34 -0800)
commitb0fecd8c570310c5041035a94eda7a4610402ace
tree12b69ee5e9d3aa56d72491a212aff3aa47dd7aa6
parent2b514827ef06fd69e1739e7f367712619dee7784
scripts/gdb: add container_of helper and convenience function

Provide an internal helper with container_of semantics.  As type lookups
are very slow in gdb-python and we need a type "long" for this, cache the
reference to this type object.  Then export the helper also as a
convenience function form use at the gdb command line.

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>
scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py