From ddb97f1debbb6be8d871f3b565f7b8befebf0f4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Baron Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:44:16 -0400 Subject: memory: add -machine dump-guest-core=on|off Add a new '[,dump-guest-core=on|off]' option to the '-machine' option. When 'dump-guest-core=off' is specified, guest memory is omitted from the core dump. The default behavior continues to be to include guest memory when a core dump is triggered. In my testing, this brought the core dump size down from 384MB to 6MB on a 2GB guest. Is anything additional required to preserve this setting for migration or savevm? I don't believe so. Changelog: v3: Eliminate globals as per Anthony's suggestion set no dump from qemu_ram_remap() as well v2: move the option from -m to -machine, rename option dump -> dump-guest-core Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori --- osdep.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'osdep.h') diff --git a/osdep.h b/osdep.h index d4b887d542..cb213e0295 100644 --- a/osdep.h +++ b/osdep.h @@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ void qemu_vfree(void *ptr); #else #define QEMU_MADV_MERGEABLE QEMU_MADV_INVALID #endif +#ifdef MADV_DONTDUMP +#define QEMU_MADV_DONTDUMP MADV_DONTDUMP +#else +#define QEMU_MADV_DONTDUMP QEMU_MADV_INVALID +#endif #elif defined(CONFIG_POSIX_MADVISE) @@ -110,6 +115,7 @@ void qemu_vfree(void *ptr); #define QEMU_MADV_DONTNEED POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED #define QEMU_MADV_DONTFORK QEMU_MADV_INVALID #define QEMU_MADV_MERGEABLE QEMU_MADV_INVALID +#define QEMU_MADV_DONTDUMP QEMU_MADV_INVALID #else /* no-op */ @@ -117,6 +123,7 @@ void qemu_vfree(void *ptr); #define QEMU_MADV_DONTNEED QEMU_MADV_INVALID #define QEMU_MADV_DONTFORK QEMU_MADV_INVALID #define QEMU_MADV_MERGEABLE QEMU_MADV_INVALID +#define QEMU_MADV_DONTDUMP QEMU_MADV_INVALID #endif -- cgit v1.2.1