[libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/2] make qemu dump memory in kdump-compressed format

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Tue Feb 25 10:56:35 UTC 2014


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 17:54:30 +0800, Qiao Nuohan wrote:
> --memory-only option is introduced without compression supported. Therefore,
> this is a freature regression of virsh dump. Now qemu has support dumping memory
> in kdump-compressed format. This patch is used to add "--compress" and
> "[--compression-format] <string>" to "virsh dump --memory-only" and send
> dump-guest-memory command to qemu with dump format specified to one of elf,
> kdump-zlib, kdump-lzo and kdump-snappy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qiao Nuohan <qiaonuohan at cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>   include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>   src/driver.h                 |  3 ++-
>   src/libvirt.c                | 10 ++++++++--
>   src/qemu/qemu_driver.c       | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
>   src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c      |  6 +++---
>   src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h      |  3 ++-
>   src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c |  4 +++-
>   src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h |  3 ++-
>   src/remote/remote_protocol.x |  1 +
>   src/test/test_driver.c       | 12 +++++++++++-
>   tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c  |  2 +-
>   tools/virsh-domain.c         | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   12 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
> index 295d551..aae3c49 100644
> --- a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
> +++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
> @@ -1180,6 +1180,18 @@ typedef enum {
>       VIR_DUMP_MEMORY_ONLY  = (1 << 4), /* use dump-guest-memory */
>   } virDomainCoreDumpFlags;
> 
> +typedef enum {
> +    VIR_MEMORY_DUMP_COMPRESS_ZLIB   = 1, /* dump guest memory in
> +                                            kdump-compressed format, with
> +                                            zlib-compressed */
> +    VIR_MEMORY_DUMP_COMPRESS_LZO    = 2, /* dump guest memory in
> +                                            kdump-compressed format, with
> +                                            lzo-compressed */
> +    VIR_MEMORY_DUMP_COMPRESS_SNAPPY = 3, /* dump guest memory in
> +                                            kdump-compressed format, with
> +                                            snappy-compressed */
> +} virMemoryDumpFormat;
> +
>   /* Domain migration flags. */
>   typedef enum {
>       VIR_MIGRATE_LIVE              = (1 << 0), /* live migration */
> @@ -1728,7 +1740,8 @@ int 
> virDomainManagedSaveRemove(virDomainPtr dom,
>    */
>   int                     virDomainCoreDump       (virDomainPtr domain,
>                                                    const char *to,
> -                                                 unsigned int flags);
> +                                                 unsigned int flags,
> +                                                 const unsigned int 
> memory_dump_format);

This is not allowed and I believe "make syntax-check" should fail on the
corresponding change to remote_protocol.x. If you want to add a new
parameter to an existing API, you have keep the API as is and instead
create a new API with a different name that will have all the parameters
you need.

Jirka




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