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 <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Andrew Jones <[email protected]>

---
v2: Not quite so long a long line (< 90 only generates warnings)
Pick up Janosch's ack

 scripts/dump-guest-memory.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

scripts/dump-guest-memory.py +6 -1

index 51acfcd0c053..276eebf0c27e 100644
@@ -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

Signature · 1 line

2.13.6

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 <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Andrew Jones <[email protected]>

---
v2: Not quite so long a long line (< 90 only generates warnings)
Pick up Janosch's ack

 scripts/dump-guest-memory.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

scripts/dump-guest-memory.py +0 -0

index 51acfcd0c053..276eebf0c27e 100644
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
 import ctypes
 import struct