From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erRLL-0006Hf-1U for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:46:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erRLJ-00011P-Nm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:46:07 -0500 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:52438 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erRLJ-00010v-JC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:46:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 18:46:04 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <1519922735-29054-10-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1519922735-29054-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1519922735-29054-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 09/13] docs/vmcoreinfo: detail unsupported host format behaviour List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Peter Maydell , =?utf-8?Q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9?= Lureau From: Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt index 8212610..bcbca6f 100644 --- a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt +++ b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ processing of entry values. A write of 0 in guest_format will disable further processing of vmcoreinfo entry values & content. =20 +You may write a guest_format that is not supported by the host, in +which case the entry data can be ignored by qemu (but you may still +access it through a debugger, via vmcoreinfo_realize::vmcoreinfo_state). + Format & content **************** =20 --=20 MST