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scripts/gdb: add kernel config dumping command

lx-configdump <file> dumps the contents of the gzipped .config to a text
file when the config is included in the kernel with CONFIG_IKCONFIG. By
default, the file written is called config.txt, but it can be any user
supplied filename as well. If the kernel config is in a module
(configs.ko), then it can be loaded along with symbols for the module
loaded with 'lx-symbols' and then this command will still work.

Obviously if you have the whole vmlinux then this can also be achieved
with scripts/extract-ikconfig, but this gdb script can be useful to
confirm that the memory contents of the config in memory and the vmlinux
contents on disk match what is expected.

[swboyd@chromium.org: v2]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190329220844.38234-3-swboyd@chromium.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325184522.260535-3-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Stephen Boyd and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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scripts/gdb/linux/config.py
··· 1 + # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 + # 3 + # Copyright 2019 Google LLC. 4 + 5 + import gdb 6 + import zlib 7 + 8 + from linux import utils 9 + 10 + 11 + class LxConfigDump(gdb.Command): 12 + """Output kernel config to the filename specified as the command 13 + argument. Equivalent to 'zcat /proc/config.gz > config.txt' on 14 + a running target""" 15 + 16 + def __init__(self): 17 + super(LxConfigDump, self).__init__("lx-configdump", gdb.COMMAND_DATA, 18 + gdb.COMPLETE_FILENAME) 19 + 20 + def invoke(self, arg, from_tty): 21 + if len(arg) == 0: 22 + filename = "config.txt" 23 + else: 24 + filename = arg 25 + 26 + try: 27 + py_config_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("kernel_config_data + 8") 28 + py_config_size = gdb.parse_and_eval( 29 + "sizeof(kernel_config_data) - 1 - 8 * 2") 30 + except gdb.error as e: 31 + raise gdb.GdbError("Can't find config, enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG?") 32 + 33 + inf = gdb.inferiors()[0] 34 + zconfig_buf = utils.read_memoryview(inf, py_config_ptr, 35 + py_config_size).tobytes() 36 + 37 + config_buf = zlib.decompress(zconfig_buf, 16) 38 + with open(filename, 'wb') as f: 39 + f.write(config_buf) 40 + 41 + gdb.write("Dumped config to " + filename + "\n") 42 + 43 + 44 + LxConfigDump()
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scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
··· 27 27 import linux.modules 28 28 import linux.dmesg 29 29 import linux.tasks 30 + import linux.config 30 31 import linux.cpus 31 32 import linux.lists 32 33 import linux.proc