From da036ae147624b70f7d3784ff3a53bd4fda20d2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Douglas Anderson Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:47:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: handle split debug Some systems (like Chrome OS) may use "split debug" for kernel modules. That means that the debug symbols are in a different file than the main elf file. Let's handle that by also searching for debug symbols that end in ".ko.debug". This is a packaging topic. You can take a normal elf file and split the debug out of it using objcopy. Try "man objcopy" and then take a look at the "--only-keep-debug" option. It'll give you a whole recipe for doing splitdebug. The suffix used for the debug symbols is arbitrary. If people have other another suffix besides ".ko.debug" then we could presumably support that too... For portage (which is the packaging system used by Chrome OS) split debug is supported by default (and the suffix is .ko.debug). ...and so in Chrome OS we always get the installed elf files stripped and then the symbols stashed away. At the moment we don't actually use the normal portage magic to do this for the kernel though since it affects our ability to get good stack dumps in the kernel. We instead pass a script as "strip" [1]. [1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/overlays/chromiumos-overlay/+/refs/heads/master/eclass/cros-kernel/strip_splitdebug Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190730234052.148744-1-dianders@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka Cc: Kieran Bingham Cc: Jason Wessel Cc: Daniel Thompson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py index 2f5b95f09fa0..34e40e96dee2 100644 --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/symbols.py @@ -77,12 +77,12 @@ lx-symbols command.""" gdb.write("scanning for modules in {0}\n".format(path)) for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path): for name in files: - if name.endswith(".ko"): + if name.endswith(".ko") or name.endswith(".ko.debug"): self.module_files.append(root + "/" + name) self.module_files_updated = True def _get_module_file(self, module_name): - module_pattern = ".*/{0}\.ko$".format( + module_pattern = ".*/{0}\.ko(?:.debug)?$".format( module_name.replace("_", r"[_\-]")) for name in self.module_files: if re.match(module_pattern, name) and os.path.exists(name): -- 2.30.2