scripts/gdb: also allow list_head pointer as lx-list-check paramter

This makes the usage more flexible.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Thiébaud Weksteen <thiebaud@weksteen.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Kiszka 2015-06-30 14:58:10 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 084f6b1ec6
commit 433296b32b

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@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ list_head = utils.CachedType("struct list_head")
def list_check(head):
nb = 0
if (head.type == list_head.get_type().pointer()):
head = head.dereference()
elif (head.type != list_head.get_type()):
raise gdb.GdbError('argument must be of type (struct list_head [*])')
c = head
if (c.type != list_head.get_type()):
raise gdb.GdbError('The argument should be of type (struct list_head)')
try:
gdb.write("Starting with: {}\n".format(c))
except gdb.MemoryError: