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  1. Feb 17, 2015
    • Jan Kiszka's avatar
      scripts/gdb: add infrastructure · 3ee7b3fa
      Jan Kiszka authored
      
      This provides the basic infrastructure to load kernel-specific python
      helper scripts when debugging the kernel in gdb.
      
      The loading mechanism is based on gdb loading for <objfile>-gdb.py when
      opening <objfile>.  Therefore, this places a corresponding link to the
      main helper script into the output directory that contains vmlinux.
      
      The main scripts will pull in submodules containing Linux specific gdb
      commands and functions.  To avoid polluting the source directory with
      compiled python modules, we link to them from the object directory.
      
      Due to gdb.parse_and_eval and string redirection for gdb.execute, we
      depend on gdb >= 7.2.
      
      This feature is enabled via CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
      Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>		[kbuild stuff]
      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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3ee7b3fa
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