dump-guest-memory.py: fix "You can't do that without a process to debug"
commitc3b1642b9b6b3ba4314d6be3be509d396372cfd5
authorMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:27:58 +0000 (12 17:27 +0100)
committerMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:49:54 +0000 (2 14:49 +0100)
treee068590df7c404eed261e319f797cc0e38450947
parentc983ca845782bf91171b5ec4e59d122a21229745
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>
hw/misc/vmcoreinfo.c
scripts/dump-guest-memory.py