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From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:39:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 41/41] dump-guest-memory.py: fix "You can't do that without a
 process to debug"
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RH-Author: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-id: <20171213133912.26176-42-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 78391
O-Subject: [RHEL-7.5 qemu-kvm PATCH v3 41/41] dump-guest-memory.py: fix "You can't do that without a process to debug"
Bugzilla: 1411490
RH-Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>

Upstream-status: <20171212172208.13588-1-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
(reviewed, pending for release and merge window to open)

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>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
---
 hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c         | 3 +++
 scripts/dump-guest-memory.py | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c b/hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c
index fa5f610..65b5755 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.
@@ -57,6 +59,7 @@ static void vmcoreinfo_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
                              false);
 
     qemu_register_reset(vmcoreinfo_reset, dev);
+    vmcoreinfo_state = s;
 }
 
 static const VMStateDescription vmstate_vmcoreinfo = {
diff --git a/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py b/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py
index 12b9b7d..8a13db0 100644
--- a/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py
+++ b/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py
@@ -546,8 +546,7 @@ shape and this command should mostly work."""
         return None
 
     def add_vmcoreinfo(self):
-        vmci = '(VMCoreInfoState *)' + \
-               'object_resolve_path_type("", "vmcoreinfo", 0)'
+        vmci = 'vmcoreinfo_realize::vmcoreinfo_state'
         if not gdb.parse_and_eval("%s" % vmci) \
            or not gdb.parse_and_eval("(%s)->has_vmcoreinfo" % vmci):
             return
-- 
1.8.3.1