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scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: read records individually
authorJohn Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:10:22 +0000 (16:16 +0106)
committerPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:52:38 +0000 (15:52 +0100)
commit80755e151cb53402abeee936a0f89df0ae2a42c6
tree6819bcd9d613ef494328fc414d173412429316ef
parent37eb16d28454a0bfb545ea3550cb66ec6a44645f
scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: read records individually

For the gdb command lx-dmesg, the entire descriptor, info, and text
data regions are read into memory before printing any records. For
large kernel log buffers, this not only causes a huge delay before
seeing any records, but it may also lead to python errors of too
much memory allocation.

Rather than reading in all these regions in advance, read them as
needed and only read the regions for the particular record that is
being printed.

The gdb macro "dmesg" in Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/gdbmacros.txt
already prints out the kernel log buffer like this.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/874k79c3a9.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py