Re: [PATCH v3 qemu 2/3] dump: Allow directly outputting raw kdump format

["Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>]

Hi Stephen

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 3:32 AM Stephen Brennan
<stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> The flattened format (currently output by QEMU) is used by makedumpfile
> only when it is outputting a vmcore to a file which is not seekable. The
> flattened format functions essentially as a set of instructions of the
> form "seek to the given offset, then write the given bytes out".
>
> The flattened format can be reconstructed using makedumpfile -R, or
> makedumpfile-R.pl, but it is a slow process because it requires copying
> the entire vmcore. The flattened format can also be directly read by
> crash, but still, it requires a lengthy reassembly phase.
>
> To sum up, the flattened format is not an ideal one: it should only be
> used on files which are actually not seekable. This is the exact
> strategy which makedumpfile uses, as seen in the implementation of
> "write_buffer()" in makedumpfile [1]. However, QEMU has always used the
> flattened format. For compatibility it is best not to change the default
> output format without warning. So, add a flag to DumpState which changes
> the output to use the normal (i.e. raw) format. This flag will be added
> to the QMP and HMP commands in the next change.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile/blob/f23bb943568188a2746dbf9b6692668f5a2ac3b6/makedumpfile.c#L5008-L5040
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>
> ---
>  dump/dump.c           | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  include/sysemu/dump.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/dump/dump.c b/dump/dump.c
> index 74071a1565..10aa2c79e0 100644
> --- a/dump/dump.c
> +++ b/dump/dump.c
> @@ -814,6 +814,10 @@ static int write_start_flat_header(DumpState *s)
>      MakedumpfileHeader *mh;
>      int ret = 0;
>
> +    if (s->kdump_raw) {
> +        return 0;
> +    }
> +
>      QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof *mh > MAX_SIZE_MDF_HEADER);
>      mh = g_malloc0(MAX_SIZE_MDF_HEADER);
>
> @@ -837,6 +841,10 @@ static int write_end_flat_header(DumpState *s)
>  {
>      MakedumpfileDataHeader mdh;
>
> +    if (s->kdump_raw) {
> +        return 0;
> +    }
> +
>      mdh.offset = END_FLAG_FLAT_HEADER;
>      mdh.buf_size = END_FLAG_FLAT_HEADER;
>
> @@ -853,13 +861,21 @@ static int write_buffer(DumpState *s, off_t offset, const void *buf, size_t size
>  {
>      size_t written_size;
>      MakedumpfileDataHeader mdh;
> +    loff_t seek_loc;

Any reason to use loff_t over off_t here? It fails to compile on win32
for ex. I can touch on PR commit otherwise.

>
> -    mdh.offset = cpu_to_be64(offset);
> -    mdh.buf_size = cpu_to_be64(size);
> +    if (s->kdump_raw) {
> +        seek_loc = lseek(s->fd, offset, SEEK_SET);
> +        if (seek_loc == (off_t) -1) {
> +            return -1;
> +        }
> +    } else {
> +        mdh.offset = cpu_to_be64(offset);
> +        mdh.buf_size = cpu_to_be64(size);
>
> -    written_size = qemu_write_full(s->fd, &mdh, sizeof(mdh));
> -    if (written_size != sizeof(mdh)) {
> -        return -1;
> +        written_size = qemu_write_full(s->fd, &mdh, sizeof(mdh));
> +        if (written_size != sizeof(mdh)) {
> +            return -1;
> +        }
>      }
>
>      written_size = qemu_write_full(s->fd, buf, size);
> @@ -1775,7 +1791,8 @@ static void vmcoreinfo_update_phys_base(DumpState *s)
>
>  static void dump_init(DumpState *s, int fd, bool has_format,
>                        DumpGuestMemoryFormat format, bool paging, bool has_filter,
> -                      int64_t begin, int64_t length, Error **errp)
> +                      int64_t begin, int64_t length, bool kdump_raw,
> +                      Error **errp)
>  {
>      ERRP_GUARD();
>      VMCoreInfoState *vmci = vmcoreinfo_find();
> @@ -1786,6 +1803,7 @@ static void dump_init(DumpState *s, int fd, bool has_format,
>      s->has_format = has_format;
>      s->format = format;
>      s->written_size = 0;
> +    s->kdump_raw = kdump_raw;
>
>      /* kdump-compressed is conflict with paging and filter */
>      if (has_format && format != DUMP_GUEST_MEMORY_FORMAT_ELF) {
> @@ -2168,7 +2186,7 @@ void qmp_dump_guest_memory(bool paging, const char *file,
>      dump_state_prepare(s);
>
>      dump_init(s, fd, has_format, format, paging, has_begin,
> -              begin, length, errp);
> +              begin, length, false, errp);
>      if (*errp) {
>          qatomic_set(&s->status, DUMP_STATUS_FAILED);
>          return;
> diff --git a/include/sysemu/dump.h b/include/sysemu/dump.h
> index e27af8fb34..d702854853 100644
> --- a/include/sysemu/dump.h
> +++ b/include/sysemu/dump.h
> @@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ typedef struct DumpState {
>      MemoryMappingList list;
>      bool resume;
>      bool detached;
> +    bool kdump_raw;
>      hwaddr memory_offset;
>      int fd;
>
> --
> 2.39.3
>


-- 
Marc-André Lureau