scripts/gdb: improve types abstraction for gdb python scripts
authorDom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@gmail.com>
Mon, 23 May 2016 23:25:16 +0000 (16:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 24 May 2016 00:04:14 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
commit321958d9710c33e74ec98c0f3c96aa2a5dbe3008
tree42b41280311a6afb47f0a9a5a3b9cb1e28f60c95
parent9f66dee720984edcbc6ea07ad70fe5b8f0421c04
scripts/gdb: improve types abstraction for gdb python scripts

Change the read_u16 function so it accepts both 'str' and 'byte' as type
for the arguments.

When calling read_memory() from gdb API, depending on if it was built
with 2.7 or 3.X, the format used to return the data will differ ( 'str'
for 2.7, and 'byte' for 3.X ).

Add a function read_memoryview() to be able to get a 'memoryview' object
back from read_memory() both with python 2.7 and 3.X .

Tested with python 3.4 and 2.7
Tested with gdb 7.7

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/73621f564503137a002a639d174e4fb35f73f462.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@gmail.com>
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>
scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py