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| author | Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> | 2018-03-14 16:38:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> | 2018-03-21 15:02:00 +0100 |
| commit | 4b17bc933fc26f7a4a306a43597f4d97e3c2dc38 (patch) | |
| tree | aa793e460bb78bdcfce3b73bc1dc97c492fc5d1e /scripts/dump-guest-memory.py | |
| parent | 0c33659d09f4a8ab926846295538d6a67e8c2c63 (diff) | |
dump-guest-memory: more descriptive lookup_type failure
We've seen a few reports of
(gdb) source /usr/share/qemu-kvm/dump-guest-memory.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/qemu-kvm/dump-guest-memory.py", line 19, in <module>
UINTPTR_T = gdb.lookup_type("uintptr_t")
gdb.error: No type named uintptr_t.
This occurs when symbols haven't been loaded first, i.e. neither a
QEMU binary was loaded nor a QEMU process was attached first. Let's
better inform the user of how to fix the issue themselves in order
to avoid more reports.
Acked-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180314153820.18426-1-drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/dump-guest-memory.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/dump-guest-memory.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py b/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py index 51acfcd0c0..276eebf0c2 100644 --- a/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py +++ b/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py @@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ the COPYING file in the top-level directory. import ctypes import struct -UINTPTR_T = gdb.lookup_type("uintptr_t") +try: + UINTPTR_T = gdb.lookup_type("uintptr_t") +except Exception as inst: + raise gdb.GdbError("Symbols must be loaded prior to sourcing dump-guest-memory.\n" + "Symbols may be loaded by 'attach'ing a QEMU process id or by " + "'load'ing a QEMU binary.") TARGET_PAGE_SIZE = 0x1000 TARGET_PAGE_MASK = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFF000 |