Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/9 v2] Add API to manipulate dump_bitmap

[Andreas Färber]

Am 15.05.2013 04:29, schrieb Qiao Nuohan:
> Struct dump_bitmap is associated with a tmp file, and the tmp file can be used
> to save data of bitmap in kdump-compressed format temporarily.
> The following patch will use these functions to get the data of bitmap and 
> cache
> them into tmp files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qiao Nuohan <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Zhang Xiaohe <address@hidden>
> ---
>  Makefile.target       |    2 +-
>  dump_bitmap.c         |  171 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/dump_bitmap.h |   60 +++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 dump_bitmap.c
>  create mode 100644 include/dump_bitmap.h
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile.target b/Makefile.target
> index ce4391f..00d4f13 100644
> --- a/Makefile.target
> +++ b/Makefile.target
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FDT) += device_tree.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_KVM) += kvm-all.o
>  obj-y += memory.o savevm.o cputlb.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_GET_MEMORY_MAPPING) += memory_mapping.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_CORE_DUMP) += dump.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_CORE_DUMP) += dump.o dump_bitmap.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_NO_GET_MEMORY_MAPPING) += memory_mapping-stub.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_NO_CORE_DUMP) += dump-stub.o
>  LIBS+=$(libs_softmmu)
[snip]

Jens and me have been working towards removing the dependency on
CONFIG_HAVE_CORE_DUMP. Would there be any issue building this code
unconditionally using obj-y += dump_bitmap.o ?

Regards,
Andreas

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