memory: add -machine dump-guest-core=on|off
Add a new '[,dump-guest-core=on|off]' option to the '-machine' option. When
'dump-guest-core=off' is specified, guest memory is omitted from the core dump.
The default behavior continues to be to include guest memory when a core dump is
triggered. In my testing, this brought the core dump size down from 384MB to 6MB
on a 2GB guest.
Is anything additional required to preserve this setting for migration or
savevm? I don't believe so.
Changelog:
v3:
Eliminate globals as per Anthony's suggestion
set no dump from qemu_ram_remap() as well
v2:
move the option from -m to -machine, rename option dump -> dump-guest-core
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
diff --git a/qemu-config.c b/qemu-config.c
index 5c3296b..6700de0 100644
--- a/qemu-config.c
+++ b/qemu-config.c
@@ -595,6 +595,10 @@
.name = "dt_compatible",
.type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
.help = "Overrides the \"compatible\" property of the dt root node",
+ }, {
+ .name = "dump-guest-core",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+ .help = "Include guest memory in a core dump",
},
{ /* End of list */ }
},