[PATCH] scripts/gdb: fix 'lx-lsmod' show the wrong size

Kuan-Ying Lee (李冠穎) Kuan-Ying.Lee at mediatek.com
Mon Jul 10 01:51:50 PDT 2023


On Tue, 2023-07-04 at 14:11 +0200, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
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>  > 'lsmod' shows total core layout size, so we need to
> > sum up all the sections in core layout in gdb scripts.
> > 
> > / # lsmod
> > kasan_test 200704 0 - Live 0xffff80007f640000
> > 
> > Before patch:
> > (gdb) lx-lsmod
> > Address            Module                  Size  Used by
> > 0xffff80007f640000 kasan_test             36864  0
> > 
> > After patch:
> > (gdb) lx-lsmod
> > Address            Module                  Size  Used by
> > 0xffff80007f640000 kasan_test            200704  0
> > 
> > Fixes: b4aff7513df3 ("scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout
> to get the module address")
> > Signed-off-by: Kuan-Ying Lee <Kuan-Ying.Lee at mediatek.com>
> > ---
> 
> Just one minor comment, but apart from that, feel free to add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav at samsung.com>
> 
> > diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
> b/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
> > index 261f28640f4c..84933c4c1083 100644
> > --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
> > +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
> > @@ -73,11 +73,17 @@ class LxLsmod(gdb.Command):
> >                  "        " if utils.get_long_type().sizeof == 8
> else ""))
> >  
> >          for module in module_list():
> > -            layout = module['mem'][constants.LX_MOD_TEXT]
> > +            total_size = 0
> > +            for i in range(constants.LX_MOD_TEXT,
> constants.LX_MOD_RO_AFTER_INIT + 1):
> > +                layout = module['mem'][i]
> > +                if i == constants.LX_MOD_TEXT:
> > +                    text_addr = str(layout['base']).split()[0]
> > +                total_size += layout['size']
> > +
> >              gdb.write("{address} {name:<19}
> {size:>8}  {ref}".format(
> > -                address=str(layout['base']).split()[0],
> > +                address=text_addr,
> >                  name=module['name'].string(),
> > -                size=str(layout['size']),
> > +                size=str(total_size),
> >                  ref=str(module['refcnt']['counter'] - 1)))
> >  
> >              t = self._module_use_type.get_type().pointer()
> 
> We could slightly modify the code to remove the special condition
> with `i == constants.LX_MOD_TEXT`:
> 
> (I made changes on top of your patch)

Thanks for your suggestion.
I will upload v2.

> 
> diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
> b/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
> index 84933c4c1083..f76a43bfa15f 100644
> --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
> +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/modules.py
> @@ -73,12 +73,12 @@ class LxLsmod(gdb.Command):
>                  "        " if utils.get_long_type().sizeof == 8 else
> ""))
> 
>          for module in module_list():
> +            text = module['mem'][constants.LX_MOD_TEXT]
> +            text_addr = str(text['base']).split()[0]
>              total_size = 0
> +
>              for i in range(constants.LX_MOD_TEXT,
> constants.LX_MOD_RO_AFTER_INIT + 1):
> -                layout = module['mem'][i]
> -                if i == constants.LX_MOD_TEXT:
> -                    text_addr = str(layout['base']).split()[0]
> -                total_size += layout['size']
> +                total_size += module['mem'][i]['size']
> 
>              gdb.write("{address} {name:<19}
> {size:>8}  {ref}".format(
>                  address=text_addr,


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