[PATCH 0/4] Export offsets of VMCS fields as note information for kdump

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Wed Apr 18 07:56:39 EDT 2012


On 04/18/2012 12:49 PM, zhangyanfei wrote:
> >>
> > 
> > What type of resource?  Can you give an example?
> > 
> Sorry. No concrete example for now.
>
> We are developing this on a conservative policy and I have put the vmcs processing
> in a new module in patch set v2 as you required. The new module is auto-loaded when
> the vmx cpufeature is detected and it depends on module kvm-intel. Loading and unloading
> this module will have no side effect on the running guests.
>
> And one thing I have to stress is that, we can see guest image as crash dump from
> guest machine's view if we have the vmcsinfo, this itself is useful.

Why is it useful?  Without a concrete example, it's hard to justify the
code bloat.

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