Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/9] Make 'dump-guest-memory' dump in kdump-compressed format

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:23:08 +0200
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Qiao,
> 
> On 07/31/13 11:26, Qiao Nuohan wrote:
> > Hello Luiz and Amos,
> > 
> > My patches are waiting for introspection. But now I cannot quite catch
> > the situation of introspection, so I hope to get some information about
> > current state from you. It will be very appreciated.

QMP introspection didn't make it for 1.6. I'd say it's the same for this
series at this point in time, unless you have a compelling reason to
include this (but then you'd have to add this as a new command).

> I wasn't aware that you've been working on dump changes.
> 
> I'm afraid this series of yours, and my series
> 
>   [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] dump-guest-memory: correct the vmcores
>   http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-07/msg05469.html
> 
> are going to conflict violently.
> 
> Since my series is a bugfix for existing, non-compressed functionality
> (--> vmcores dumped for 3.5G+ guests are corrupt), *and* you look like a
> vmcore/dump expert, could you please give it a look? :)
> 
> Normally, your series *should* take priority, because it's been on the
> list for much longer. However considering the 1.6 hard freeze, my
> series, being a bugfix, might go in earlier. Do you think you could
> rebase your work on mine (if it is accepted, that is)?

That's my thinking too.