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| author | Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> | 2015-06-30 14:58:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-06-30 19:44:58 -0700 |
| commit | 433296b32b39bd2f8a8717ccb2385b4c8654017d (patch) | |
| tree | 21dfdb7b2953052ad5198dd3c5f3571f423bf9b7 /scripts/gdb | |
| parent | 084f6b1ec65170c2f8e38688bc83ff15b9a963e0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-433296b32b39bd2f8a8717ccb2385b4c8654017d.tar.gz lwn-433296b32b39bd2f8a8717ccb2385b4c8654017d.zip | |
scripts/gdb: also allow list_head pointer as lx-list-check paramter
This makes the usage more flexible.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Thiébaud Weksteen <thiebaud@weksteen.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/gdb')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py index 2a94b5462d06..71fba6afcb55 100644 --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py @@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ list_head = utils.CachedType("struct list_head") def list_check(head): nb = 0 + if (head.type == list_head.get_type().pointer()): + head = head.dereference() + elif (head.type != list_head.get_type()): + raise gdb.GdbError('argument must be of type (struct list_head [*])') c = head - if (c.type != list_head.get_type()): - raise gdb.GdbError('The argument should be of type (struct list_head)') try: gdb.write("Starting with: {}\n".format(c)) except gdb.MemoryError: |