From nobody Sun Oct 26 00:03:05 2025 Delivered-To: importer@patchew.org Received-SPF: pass (zoho.com: domain of gnu.org designates 208.118.235.17 as permitted sender) client-ip=208.118.235.17; envelope-from=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; helo=lists.gnu.org; Authentication-Results: mx.zohomail.com; spf=pass (zoho.com: domain of gnu.org designates 208.118.235.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; dmarc=fail(p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Return-Path: Received: from lists.gnu.org (208.118.235.17 [208.118.235.17]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 15216432047059.754475352380155; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 07:40:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([::1]:55485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyeuB-0005Cn-Mi for importer@patchew.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:39:55 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyesT-0003qN-D9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:38:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyesQ-000187-I0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:38:09 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:56752 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eyesQ-00017m-EG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:38:06 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01BF1401DEC6; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:38:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (ovpn-112-73.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.73]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E5A200BC7B; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:38:05 +0000 (UTC) From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:37:54 +0100 Message-Id: <20180321143754.5606-3-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20180321143754.5606-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> References: <20180321143754.5606-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.4 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.6]); Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:38:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.6]); Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:38:06 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.4' DOMAIN:'int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'marcandre.lureau@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 66.187.233.73 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/2] dump-guest-memory: more descriptive lookup_type failure X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, Andrew Jones , =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" X-ZohoMail: RSF_0 Z_629925259 SPT_0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Andrew Jones 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 UINTPTR_T =3D 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones Message-Id: <20180314153820.18426-1-drjones@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng Tested-by: Fam Zheng Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek Reviewed-by: Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau Signed-off-by: Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau --- scripts/dump-guest-memory.py | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 =20 -UINTPTR_T =3D gdb.lookup_type("uintptr_t") +try: + UINTPTR_T =3D gdb.lookup_type("uintptr_t") +except Exception as inst: + raise gdb.GdbError("Symbols must be loaded prior to sourcing dump-gues= t-memory.\n" + "Symbols may be loaded by 'attach'ing a QEMU proces= s id or by " + "'load'ing a QEMU binary.") =20 TARGET_PAGE_SIZE =3D 0x1000 TARGET_PAGE_MASK =3D 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFF000 --=20 2.16.2.521.g9aa15f885a