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Date:   Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:27:44 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     aftermath digital <aftermath.digital0@gmail.com>
Cc:     stable@vger.kernel.org, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, kbingham@kernel.org
Subject: Re: vmlinux-gdb unable to parse_and_eval("hrtimer_resolution") on
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 08:57:47PM +0100, aftermath digital wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tested the below on both linux-6.5.7 and mainline linux-6.6-rc6,
> both of which seem to have the same issue.
> 
> GDB 13.2 isn't able to load vmlinux-gdb.py as it throws the following:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/user/debug_kernel/linux-6.6-rc6/vmlinux-gdb.py", line
> 25, in <module>
>     import linux.constants
>   File "/home/user/debug_kernel/linux-6.6-rc6/scripts/gdb/linux/constants.py",
> line 11, in <module>
>     LX_hrtimer_resolution = gdb.parse_and_eval("hrtimer_resolution")
> gdb.error: 'hrtimer_resolution' has unknown type; cast it to its declared type
> 
> I've built-linux like so:
> 
> make defconfig
> scripts/config --disable SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS
> scripts/config --disable SYSTEM_REVOCATION_KEYS
> scripts/config --set-str SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS ""
> scripts/config -e CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO -e CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS -e
> CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
> make -j$(nproc)
> make scripts_gdb
> 
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
> $ gdb --version
> GNU gdb (GDB) 13.2
> 
> This is my first time submitting a bug to the LK mailing list, please
> let me know if this format is not correct or if you need more
> information.

Has this ever worked with any kernel version you have tried?  If so,
what was the last good version?  Can you run 'git bisect' to find the
offending commit?

thanks,

greg k-h