From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: qemu core dump and filtering guest pages Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 11:37:42 +0300 Message-ID: <4FBCA1D6.1070905@redhat.com> References: <4FBBFFB5.3010605@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , KVM list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Oleg Nesterov To: Christian Borntraeger Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4FBBFFB5.3010605@de.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 05/23/2012 12:05 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Folks, > > today we discussed the situation of a qemu crash (with coredump) and big guests. > Quite often the guest pages are not needed but make the core file pretty big. > > The most appealing proposal that we had was to adopt the core file code in the > kernel to have an option for discarding guest pages (e.g. /proc/sys/core_guest). > do_corefile would have a callback into the kvm module that could use its memory > slot infrastructure to decide if this page should be saved or not. > > Would you consider such a change be ok? Any better idea? There's MADV_DONTDUMP which can be used to control this on a per-guest basis. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function