[libvirt] [PATCH v7 0/4] support dumping guest memory in compressed format

[qiaonuohan at cn.fujitsu.com]

Hello,

Do you have some comments?

On 03/18/2014 03:12 PM, Qiao, Nuohan/乔 诺涵 wrote:
> dumping guest's memory is introduced without compression supported, but now
> qemu can dump guest's memory in kdump-compressed format. This patchset is used
> to add support in libvirt side to let qemu do the dump in compressed format and
> please refer the following address to see implementation of the qemu side, the
> lastest version of qemu side is v9.
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-02/msg03016.html
>
> ChangLog:
> Changes from v6 to v7:
> 1. revert changing dumpformat of virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat back to an enum
>
> Changes from v5 to v6:
> 1. add qemuMonitorGetDumpGuestMemoryCapability API to check the available dump
>     format
>
> Changes from v4 to v5:
> 1. modify some restriction check
>
> Changes from v3 to v4:
> 1. dropping patch "add dump_memory_format in qemu.conf"
> 2. fix to follow some conventions
>
> Changes from v2 to v3:
> 1. address Jiri Denemark's comment about adding a new public API instead of
>     changing an old one.
>
> Changes from v1 to v2:
> 1. address Daniel P. Berrange's comment about using a new parameter to replace
>     flags like VIR_DUMP_COMPRESS_ZLIB.
>
>
> qiaonuohan (4):
>    add new virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat API
>    qemu: add qemuMonitorGetDumpGuestMemoryCapability
>    qemu: add support for virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat API
>    allow "virsh dump --memory-only" specify dump format
>
>   include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in | 31 ++++++++++++++
>   src/driver.h                 |  7 ++++
>   src/libvirt.c                | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   src/libvirt_public.syms      |  5 +++
>   src/qemu/qemu_driver.c       | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>   src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c      | 27 ++++++++++--
>   src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h      |  6 ++-
>   src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h |  6 ++-
>   src/remote/remote_driver.c   |  1 +
>   src/remote/remote_protocol.x | 15 ++++++-
>   src/remote_protocol-structs  |  7 ++++
>   src/test/test_driver.c       | 22 ++++++++--
>   tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c  |  2 +-
>   tools/virsh-domain.c         | 45 ++++++++++++++++++--
>   tools/virsh.pod              |  5 +++
>   16 files changed, 391 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>


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Regards
Qiao Nuohan