commit 433296b32b39bd2f8a8717ccb2385b4c8654017d
author Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Tue Jun 30 14:58:10 2015 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tue Jun 30 19:44:58 2015 -0700
tree 21dfdb7b2953052ad5198dd3c5f3571f423bf9b7
parent 084f6b1ec65170c2f8e38688bc83ff15b9a963e0

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>

scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py
index 2a94b54..71fba6a 100644
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/lists.py
@@ -20,9 +20,11 @@
 
 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: