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+#
+# gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging
+#
+#  common utilities
+#
+# Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2011-2013
+#
+# Authors:
+#  Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
+#
+# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
+#
+
+import gdb
+
+
+class CachedType:
+    def __init__(self, name):
+        self._type = None
+        self._name = name
+
+    def _new_objfile_handler(self, event):
+        self._type = None
+        gdb.events.new_objfile.disconnect(self._new_objfile_handler)
+
+    def get_type(self):
+        if self._type is None:
+            self._type = gdb.lookup_type(self._name)
+            if self._type is None:
+                raise gdb.GdbError(
+                    "cannot resolve type '{0}'".format(self._name))
+            if hasattr(gdb, 'events') and hasattr(gdb.events, 'new_objfile'):
+                gdb.events.new_objfile.connect(self._new_objfile_handler)
+        return self._type
+
+
+long_type = CachedType("long")
+
+
+def get_long_type():
+    global long_type
+    return long_type.get_type()
+
+
+def offset_of(typeobj, field):
+    element = gdb.Value(0).cast(typeobj)
+    return int(str(element[field].address).split()[0], 16)
+
+
+def container_of(ptr, typeobj, member):
+    return (ptr.cast(get_long_type()) -
+            offset_of(typeobj, member)).cast(typeobj)
+
+
+class ContainerOf(gdb.Function):
+    """Return pointer to containing data structure.
+
+$container_of(PTR, "TYPE", "ELEMENT"): Given PTR, return a pointer to the
+data structure of the type TYPE in which PTR is the address of ELEMENT.
+Note that TYPE and ELEMENT have to be quoted as strings."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super(ContainerOf, self).__init__("container_of")
+
+    def invoke(self, ptr, typename, elementname):
+        return container_of(ptr, gdb.lookup_type(typename.string()).pointer(),
+                            elementname.string())
+
+ContainerOf()
+
+
+BIG_ENDIAN = 0
+LITTLE_ENDIAN = 1
+target_endianness = None
+
+
+def get_target_endianness():
+    global target_endianness
+    if target_endianness is None:
+        endian = gdb.execute("show endian", to_string=True)
+        if "little endian" in endian:
+            target_endianness = LITTLE_ENDIAN
+        elif "big endian" in endian:
+            target_endianness = BIG_ENDIAN
+        else:
+            raise gdb.GdgError("unknown endianness '{0}'".format(str(endian)))
+    return target_endianness
+
+
+def read_u16(buffer):
+    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8)
+    else:
+        return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8)
+
+
+def read_u32(buffer):
+    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        return read_u16(buffer[0:2]) + (read_u16(buffer[2:4]) << 16)
+    else:
+        return read_u16(buffer[2:4]) + (read_u16(buffer[0:2]) << 16)
+
+
+def read_u64(buffer):
+    if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN:
+        return read_u32(buffer[0:4]) + (read_u32(buffer[4:8]) << 32)
+    else:
+        return read_u32(buffer[4:8]) + (read_u32(buffer[0:4]) << 32)
+
+
+target_arch = None
+
+
+def is_target_arch(arch):
+    if hasattr(gdb.Frame, 'architecture'):
+        return arch in gdb.newest_frame().architecture().name()
+    else:
+        global target_arch
+        if target_arch is None:
+            target_arch = gdb.execute("show architecture", to_string=True)
+        return arch in target_arch
+
+
+GDBSERVER_QEMU = 0
+GDBSERVER_KGDB = 1
+gdbserver_type = None
+
+
+def get_gdbserver_type():
+    def exit_handler(event):
+        global gdbserver_type
+        gdbserver_type = None
+        gdb.events.exited.disconnect(exit_handler)
+
+    def probe_qemu():
+        try:
+            return gdb.execute("monitor info version", to_string=True) != ""
+        except:
+            return False
+
+    def probe_kgdb():
+        try:
+            thread_info = gdb.execute("info thread 2", to_string=True)
+            return "shadowCPU0" in thread_info
+        except:
+            return False
+
+    global gdbserver_type
+    if gdbserver_type is None:
+        if probe_qemu():
+            gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_QEMU
+        elif probe_kgdb():
+            gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_KGDB
+        if not gdbserver_type is None and hasattr(gdb, 'events'):
+            gdb.events.exited.connect(exit_handler)
+    return gdbserver_type