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2022-07-21scripts/gdb: fix 'lx-dmesg' on 32 bits archAntonio Borneo1-6/+3
The type atomic_long_t can have size 4 or 8 bytes, depending on CONFIG_64BIT; it's only content, the field 'counter', is either an int or a s64 value. Current code incorrectly uses the fixed size utils.read_u64() to read the field 'counter' inside atomic_long_t. On 32 bits architectures reading the last element 'tail_id' of the struct prb_desc_ring: struct prb_desc_ring { ... atomic_long_t tail_id; }; causes the utils.read_u64() to access outside the boundary of the struct and the gdb command 'lx-dmesg' exits with error: Python Exception <class 'IndexError'>: index out of range Error occurred in Python: index out of range Query the really used atomic_long_t counter type size. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220617143758.137307-1-antonio.borneo@foss.st.com Fixes: e60768311af8 ("scripts/gdb: update for lockless printk ringbuffer") Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@foss.st.com> [pmladek@suse.com: Query the really used atomic_long_t counter type size] Tested-by: Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@foss.st.com> Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220719122831.19890-1-pmladek@suse.com
2021-12-16scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: read records individuallyJohn Ogness1-17/+18
For the gdb command lx-dmesg, the entire descriptor, info, and text data regions are read into memory before printing any records. For large kernel log buffers, this not only causes a huge delay before seeing any records, but it may also lead to python errors of too much memory allocation. Rather than reading in all these regions in advance, read them as needed and only read the regions for the particular record that is being printed. The gdb macro "dmesg" in Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/gdbmacros.txt already prints out the kernel log buffer like this. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/874k79c3a9.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
2020-09-22printk: move dictionary keys to dev_printk_infoJohn Ogness1-5/+11
Dictionaries are only used for SUBSYSTEM and DEVICE properties. The current implementation stores the property names each time they are used. This requires more space than otherwise necessary. Also, because the dictionary entries are currently considered optional, it cannot be relied upon that they are always available, even if the writer wanted to store them. These issues will increase should new dictionary properties be introduced. Rather than storing the subsystem and device properties in the dict ring, introduce a struct dev_printk_info with separate fields to store only the property values. Embed this struct within the struct printk_info to provide guaranteed availability. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mu1jl6ne.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
2020-09-15printk: ringbuffer: add finalization/extension supportJohn Ogness1-1/+2
Add support for extending the newest data block. For this, introduce a new finalization state (desc_finalized) denoting a committed descriptor that cannot be extended. Until a record is finalized, a writer can reopen that record to append new data. Reopening a record means transitioning from the desc_committed state back to the desc_reserved state. A writer can explicitly finalize a record if there is no intention of extending it. Also, records are automatically finalized when a new record is reserved. This relieves writers of needing to explicitly finalize while also making such records available to readers sooner. (Readers can only traverse finalized records.) Four new memory barrier pairs are introduced. Two of them are insignificant additions (data_realloc:A/desc_read:D and data_realloc:A/data_push_tail:B) because they are alternate path memory barriers that exactly match the purpose, pairing, and context of the two existing memory barrier pairs they provide an alternate path for. The other two new memory barrier pairs are significant additions: desc_reopen_last:A / _prb_commit:B - When reopening a descriptor, ensure the state transitions back to desc_reserved before fully trusting the descriptor data. _prb_commit:B / desc_reserve:D - When committing a descriptor, ensure the state transitions to desc_committed before checking the head ID to see if the descriptor needs to be finalized. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914123354.832-6-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2020-09-15printk: ringbuffer: change representation of statesJohn Ogness1-5/+6
Rather than deriving the state by evaluating bits within the flags area of the state variable, assign the states explicit values and set those values in the flags area. Introduce macros to make it simple to read and write state values for the state variable. Although the functionality is preserved, the binary representation for the states is changed. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914123354.832-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2020-09-08scripts/gdb: update for lockless printk ringbufferJohn Ogness1-37/+102
With the introduction of the lockless printk ringbuffer, the data structure for the kernel log buffer was changed. Update the gdb scripts to be able to parse/print the new log buffer structure. Fixes: 896fbe20b4e2333fb55 ("printk: use the lockless ringbuffer") Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: A typo fix.] Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814212525.6118-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2019-10-19scripts/gdb: fix lx-dmesg when CONFIG_PRINTK_CALLER is setJoel Colledge1-4/+12
When CONFIG_PRINTK_CALLER is set, struct printk_log contains an additional member caller_id. This affects the offset of the log text. Account for this by using the type information from gdb to determine all the offsets instead of using hardcoded values. This fixes following error: (gdb) lx-dmesg Python Exception <class 'ValueError'> embedded null character: Error occurred in Python command: embedded null character The read_u* utility functions now take an offset argument to make them easier to use. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011142500.2339-1-joel.colledge@linbit.com Signed-off-by: Joel Colledge <joel.colledge@linbit.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org> Cc: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-12scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: use explicit encoding=utf8 errors=replaceLeonard Crestez1-3/+10
Use errors=replace because it is never desirable for lx-dmesg to fail on string decoding errors, not even if the log buffer is corrupt and we show incorrect info. The kernel will sometimes print utf8, for example the copyright symbol from jffs2. In order to make this work specify 'utf8' everywhere because python2 otherwise defaults to 'ascii'. In theory the second errors='replace' is not be required because everything that can be decoded as utf8 should also be encodable back to utf8. But it's better to be extra safe here. It's worth noting that this is definitely not true for encoding='ascii', unknown characters are replaced with U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER and they fail to encode back to ascii. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/acee067f3345954ed41efb77b80eebdc038619c6.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com> Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Kieran Bingham <kieran@ksquared.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-12scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: cast log_buf to void* for addr fetchLeonard Crestez1-1/+1
In some cases it is possible for the str() conversion here to throw encoding errors because log_buf might not point to valid ascii. For example: (gdb) python print str(gdb.parse_and_eval("log_buf")) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0303' in position 24: ordinal not in range(128) Avoid this by explicitly casting to (void *) inside the gdb expression. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ba6f85dbb02ca980ebd0e2399b0649423399b565.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Kieran Bingham <kieran@ksquared.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-02scripts/gdb: make lx-dmesg command work (reliably)André Draszik1-4/+5
lx-dmesg needs access to the log_buf symbol from printk.c. Unfortunately, the symbol log_buf also exists in BPF's verifier.c and hence gdb can pick one or the other. If it happens to pick BPF's log_buf, lx-dmesg doesn't work: (gdb) lx-dmesg Python Exception <class 'gdb.MemoryError'> Cannot access memory at address 0x0: Error occurred in Python command: Cannot access memory at address 0x0 (gdb) p log_buf $15 = 0x0 Luckily, GDB has a way to deal with this, see https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Symbols.html (gdb) info variables ^log_buf$ All variables matching regular expression "^log_buf$": File <linux.git>/kernel/bpf/verifier.c: static char *log_buf; File <linux.git>/kernel/printk/printk.c: static char *log_buf; (gdb) p 'verifier.c'::log_buf $1 = 0x0 (gdb) p 'printk.c'::log_buf $2 = 0x811a6aa0 <__log_buf> "" (gdb) p &log_buf $3 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 <log_buf> (gdb) p &'verifier.c'::log_buf $4 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 <log_buf> (gdb) p &'printk.c'::log_buf $5 = (char **) 0x8048b7d0 <log_buf> By being explicit about the location of the symbol, we can make lx-dmesg work again. While at it, do the same for the other symbols we need from printk.c Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526112222.3414-1-git@andred.net Signed-off-by: André Draszik <git@andred.net> Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz> Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-23scripts/gdb: decode bytestream on dmesg for Python3Kieran Bingham1-2/+2
The recent fixes to lx-dmesg, now allow the command to print successfully on Python3, however the python interpreter wraps the bytes for each line with a b'<text>' marker. To remove this, we need to decode the line, where .decode() will default to 'UTF-8' Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d67ccf93f2479c94cb3399262b9b796e0dbefcf2.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz> Acked-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2@gmail.com> Tested-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-23scripts/gdb: fix issue with dmesg.py and python 3.XDom Cote1-3/+4
When built against Python 3, GDB differs in the return type for its read_memory function, causing the lx-dmesg command to fail. Now that we have an improved read_16() we can use the new read_memoryview() abstraction to make lx-dmesg return valid data on both current Python APIs Tested with python 3.4 and 2.7 Tested with gdb 7.7 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/28477b727ff7fe3101fd4e426060e8a68317a639.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com Signed-off-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@gmail.com> [kieran@bingham.xyz: Adjusted commit log to better reflect code changes] Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz> (Py2.7,Py3.4,GDB10) Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-30scripts/gdb: fix PEP8 complianceThiébaud Weksteen1-1/+0
Signed-off-by: Thiébaud Weksteen <thiebaud@weksteen.fr> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-17scripts/gdb: port to python3 / gdb7.7Pantelis Koukousoulas1-1/+2
I tried to use these scripts in an ubuntu 14.04 host (gdb 7.7 compiled against python 3.3) but there were several errors. I believe this patch fixes these issues so that the commands now work (I tested lx-symbols, lx-dmesg, lx-lsmod). Main issues that needed to be resolved: * In python 2 iterators have a "next()" method. In python 3 it is __next__() instead (so let's just add both). * In older python versions there was an implicit conversion in object.__format__() (used when an object is in string.format()) where it was converting the object to str first and then calling str's __format__(). This has now been removed so we must explicitly convert to str the objects for which we need to keep this behavior. * In dmesg.py: in python 3 log_buf is now a "memoryview" object which needs to be converted to a string in order to use string methods like "splitlines()". Luckily memoryview exists in python 2.7.6 as well, so we can convert log_buf to memoryview and use the same code in both python 2 and python 3. This version of the patch has now been tested with gdb 7.7 and both python 3.4 and python 2.7.6 (I think asking for at least python 2.7.6 is a reasonable requirement instead of complicating the code with version checks etc). Signed-off-by: Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss@gmail.com> 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>
2015-02-17scripts/gdb: add lx-dmesg commandJan Kiszka1-0/+64
This pokes into the log buffer of the debugged kernel, dumping it to the gdb console. Helping in case the target should or can no longer execute dmesg itself. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> 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>