scripts/gdb: add lx_current convenience function

This is a shorthand for *$lx_per_cpu("current_task"), i.e.  a convenience
function to retrieve the currently running task of the active context.

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>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py
index 18337e01ddef..b683da92f194 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/cpus.py
@@ -66,3 +66,20 @@ Note that VAR has to be quoted as string."""
 
 
 PerCpu()
+
+
+class LxCurrentFunc(gdb.Function):
+    """Return current task.
+
+$lx_current([CPU]): Return the per-cpu task variable for the given CPU
+number. If CPU is omitted, the CPU of the current context is used."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(LxCurrentFunc, self).__init__("lx_current")
+
+    def invoke(self, cpu=-1):
+        var_ptr = gdb.parse_and_eval("&current_task")
+        return per_cpu(var_ptr, cpu).dereference()
+
+
+LxCurrentFunc()