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From: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: aik@ozlabs.ru, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Skip vfio mmap bar regions during memory dump
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:00:12 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a965w2q3.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410497830.2982.394.camel@ul30vt.home>

Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 10:12 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>> The PCI MMIO might be disabled or the device in the reset state.
>> Make sure we do not dump these memory regions.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>
> If you don't want to dump a memory region then add the ability to set a
> no-dump flag on the region and have vfio call it, don't make something
> as specific as a vfio mmap region.  Thanks,

Sure, do you want me to separate it to two patches:

1) Adding skip_dump flag and accessors
2) VFIO using the accessors?

Regards,
Nikunj

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-12 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-12  4:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Skip vfio mmap bar regions during memory dump Nikunj A Dadhania
2014-09-12  4:57 ` Alex Williamson
2014-09-12 10:30   ` Nikunj A Dadhania [this message]

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