On 14.03.2018 15:21, Andrew Jones wrote:
> 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.
Oh yeah, I remember that particular error.
Acked-by: Janosch Frank <fran...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com>
> ---
> scripts/dump-guest-memory.py | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py b/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py
> index 51acfcd0c053..e56fff6d7e82 100644
> --- a/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py
> +++ b/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py
> @@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ 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 first 'attach'ing a QEMU
> process id or by 'load'ing a QEMU binary.")>
> TARGET_PAGE_SIZE = 0x1000
> TARGET_PAGE_MASK = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFF000
>
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