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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Split out dump-guest-memory memory mapping


From: Ekaterina Tumanova
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Split out dump-guest-memory memory mapping code
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:07:57 +0400
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On 04/23/2013 07:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 04/23/2013 09:30 AM, Jens Freimann wrote:
Split out dump-guest-memory memory mapping code to allow dumping without
memory mapping

The qemu dump.c code currently requires CONFIG_HAVE_CORE_DUMP as well as
CONFIG_HAVE_GET_MEMORY_MAPPING. This allows for dumping with and without paging.
Some architectures will provide only the non-paging case. This patch allows an
architecture to provide dumping even when CONFIG_HAVE_GET_MEMORY_MAPPING is not
available. To do that, we split out the common code and provide stub functions
for the non-paging case. If -p is specified on a target that doesn't support it,
we will pass an error to the calling code.

Signed-off-by: Ekaterina Tumanova <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <address@hidden>
---
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qerror.h
@@ -249,4 +249,7 @@ void assert_no_error(Error *err);
  #define QERR_SOCKET_CREATE_FAILED \
      ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, "Failed to create socket"
+#define QERR_UNSUPPORTED_COMMAND_OPTION \
+    ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, "Option(s) %s of %s command not supported for 
%s"
Rather than adding a new QERR_* constant here, just use error_setg() in
qmp_dump_guest_memory() in the first place.

This raises an interesting question about introspection - how will
management apps (such as libvirt) be able to determine whether the
paging command is supported for a given architecture?  Do we need to
expand the 'MachineInfo' QMP datatype so that 'query-machines' can tell
us whether a given machine will support or reject attempts to set
'paging':true during 'dump-guest-memory'?

as far as I understand libvirt doesn't actually use -p dump-guest-memory parameter.
and virsh dump doesn't have paging param




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