scripts/gdb: provide a dentry_name VFS path helper

Walk the VFS entries, pre-pending the iname strings to generate a full VFS path name from a dentry. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4328fdb2d15ba7f1b21ad21c2eecc38d9cfc4d13.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
josf · May 24, 2016 · 74627cf · 74627cf
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diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
@@ -161,3 +161,11 @@ def gdb_eval_or_none(expresssion):
         return gdb.parse_and_eval(expresssion)
     except:
         return None
+
+
+def dentry_name(d):
+    parent = d['d_parent']
+    if parent == d or parent == 0:
+        return ""
+    p = dentry_name(d['d_parent']) + "/"
+    return p + d['d_iname'].string()