From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>,
Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/20] Add gdb python scripts as kernel debugging helpers
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:15:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130129141518.GI14302@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1359463075.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 01:37:43PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Version 5 comes with the following changes:
> - moved tutorial into Documentation/gdb-kernel-debugging.txt
> - improved caching of gdb.Type objects, ensure they are in sync with
> currently loaded symbols
> - added new functions and commands
> - lx_module -- Find module by name and return the module variable
> - lx_modvar -- Return global variable of a module
> - lx-lsmod -- List currently loaded modules
>
> See http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1210.0/01598.html for
> the original description and
>
> git://git.kiszka.org/linux.git queues/gdb-scripts
>
> for the latest version.
Ok, I've seldomly shown any feelings when acking a patch{,set} besides
maybe "hm, ok, fine" but this patchset is very very cool and it is an
enormous fun playing with it.
So maybe this is the most enthusiasm I've shown sofar:
Emphatically-acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Thanks Jan, very good work!
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-29 12:37 [PATCH v5 00/20] Add gdb python scripts as kernel debugging helpers Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 01/20] scripts/gdb: Add infrastructure Jan Kiszka
2013-02-13 21:43 ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 02/20] scripts/gdb: Add cache for type objects Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 03/20] scripts/gdb: Add container_of helper and convenience function Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 04/20] scripts/gdb: Add module iteration helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 05/20] scripts/gdb: Add lx-symbols command Jan Kiszka
2013-02-14 15:40 ` Tom Tromey
2013-02-14 15:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 06/20] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to look up a module Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 07/20] scripts/gdb: Add lx_modvar convenience function Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 08/20] scripts/gdb: Add get_target_endianness helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 09/20] scripts/gdb: Add read_u16/32/64 helpers Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 10/20] scripts/gdb: Add lx-dmesg command Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 11/20] scripts/gdb: Add task iteration helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 12/20] scripts/gdb: Add helper and convenience function to look up tasks Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 13/20] scripts/gdb: Add is_target_arch helper Jan Kiszka
2013-02-13 21:38 ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 14/20] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function to retrieve thread_info Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 13:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 15/20] scripts/gdb: Add get_gdbserver_type helper Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:37 ` [PATCH v5 16/20] scripts/gdb: Add internal helper and convenience function for per-cpu lookup Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 13:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 13:56 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 14:12 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-29 14:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:38 ` [PATCH v5 17/20] scripts/gdb: Add lx_current convenience function Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:38 ` [PATCH v5 18/20] scripts/gdb: Add helper to iterate over CPU masks Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:38 ` [PATCH v5 19/20] scripts/gdb: Add lx-lsmod command Jan Kiszka
2013-01-29 12:38 ` [PATCH v5 20/20] scripts/gdb: Add basic documentation Jan Kiszka
2013-02-06 9:23 ` [PATCH v6 " Jan Kiszka
2013-02-09 16:15 ` [PATCH v5 " Rob Landley
2013-01-29 14:15 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
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