Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/13] Make 'dump-guest-memory' dump in kdump-compressed format

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:00:56 -0500
Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:21:53 +0800
> qiaonuohan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, all
> > 
> > The last version is here:
> > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-01/msg00209.html
> > 
> > Command 'dump-guest-memory' was introduced to dump guest's memory. But the
> > vmcore's format is only elf32 or elf64. The message is here:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-04/msg03379.html
> > 
> > Compared with migration, the missing of compression feature means regression
> > to 'dump-guest-memory'. So we post these patches to make 
> > 'dump-guest-memory' be
> > able to dump guest's in kdump-compressed format. Then vmcore can be much
> > smaller, and easily to be delivered.
> > 
> > The kdump-compressed format is *linux specific* *linux standard* crash dump
> > format used in kdump framework. The kdump-compressed format is readable only
> > with the crash utility, and it can be smaller than the ELF format because of
> > the compression support. To get more detailed information about
> > kdump-compressed format, please refer to the following URL:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/
> 
> I did what was requested by Paolo. I applied patches 1 to 12 and will wait
> for the rework on patch 13.

Unfortunately this series doesn't build on 32-bit hosts, so I had to drop it
from my queue (see error below). Can you please do the following:

1. Fix the build
2. Add new patch 13/13 to the series
3. Add Ekaterina's patch to your series

Thanks. Here's the error message:

ar: creating libfdt/libfdt.a
/root/qmp-unstable/dump.c: In function ‘write_dump_pages’:
/root/qmp-unstable/dump.c:1356:21: error: passing argument 2 of ‘compress2’ 
from incompatible pointer type [-Werror]
                     Z_BEST_SPEED) == Z_OK) && (size_out < s->page_size)) {
                     ^
In file included from /root/qmp-unstable/dump.c:28:0:
/usr/include/zlib.h:1174:21: note: expected ‘uLongf *’ but argument is of type 
‘size_t *’
 ZEXTERN int ZEXPORT compress2 OF((Bytef *dest,   uLongf *destLen,
                     ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[1]: *** [dump.o] Error 1
make: *** [subdir-aarch64-softmmu] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
/root/qmp-unstable/dump.c: In function ‘write_dump_pages’:
/root/qmp-unstable/dump.c:1356:21: error: passing argument 2 of ‘compress2’ 
from incompatible pointer type [-Werror]
                     Z_BEST_SPEED) == Z_OK) && (size_out < s->page_size)) {
                     ^
In file included from /root/qmp-unstable/dump.c:28:0:
/usr/include/zlib.h:1174:21: note: expected ‘uLongf *’ but argument is of type 
‘size_t *’
 ZEXTERN int ZEXPORT compress2 OF((Bytef *dest,   uLongf *destLen,
                     ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[1]: *** [dump.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [subdir-alpha-softmmu] Error 2