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authorMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>2017-12-12 17:27:58 +0100
committerMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>2018-01-02 14:49:54 +0100
commitc3b1642b9b6b3ba4314d6be3be509d396372cfd5 (patch)
treee068590df7c404eed261e319f797cc0e38450947 /hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c
parentc983ca845782bf91171b5ec4e59d122a21229745 (diff)
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dump-guest-memory.py: fix "You can't do that without a process to debug"
If the script is run with a core (no running process), it produces an
error:

(gdb)  dump-guest-memory /tmp/vmcore X86_64
guest RAM blocks:
target_start     target_end       host_addr        message count
---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ------- -----
0000000000000000 00000000000a0000 00007f7935800000 added       1
00000000000a0000 00000000000b0000 00007f7934200000 added       2
00000000000c0000 00000000000ca000 00007f79358c0000 added       3
00000000000ca000 00000000000cd000 00007f79358ca000 joined      3
00000000000cd000 00000000000e8000 00007f79358cd000 joined      3
00000000000e8000 00000000000f0000 00007f79358e8000 joined      3
00000000000f0000 0000000000100000 00007f79358f0000 joined      3
0000000000100000 0000000080000000 00007f7935900000 joined      3
00000000fd000000 00000000fe000000 00007f7934200000 added       4
00000000fffc0000 0000000100000000 00007f7935600000 added       5
Python Exception <class 'gdb.error'> You can't do that without a process to debug.:
Error occurred in Python command: You can't do that without a process
to debug.

Replace the object_resolve_path_type() function call with a local
volatile variable.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c')
-rw-r--r--hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c b/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c
index 31db57ab44..a2805527cb 100644
--- a/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c
+++ b/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ static void vmcoreinfo_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
 {
     VMCoreInfoState *s = VMCOREINFO(dev);
     FWCfgState *fw_cfg = fw_cfg_find();
+    /* for gdb script dump-guest-memory.py */
+    static VMCoreInfoState * volatile vmcoreinfo_state G_GNUC_UNUSED;
 
     /* Given that this function is executing, there is at least one VMCOREINFO
      * device. Check if there are several.
@@ -56,6 +58,7 @@ static void vmcoreinfo_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
                              &s->vmcoreinfo, sizeof(s->vmcoreinfo), false);
 
     qemu_register_reset(vmcoreinfo_reset, dev);
+    vmcoreinfo_state = s;
 }
 
 static const VMStateDescription vmstate_vmcoreinfo = {