[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] python script for extracting bitmap from a binary file

[Sanidhya Kashyap]

No particular functional change. This file does not need to be included in
the Makefile as it will be only useful once the user has generated the bitmap
file via bitmap dump process.

Signed-off-by: Sanidhya Kashyap <address@hidden>
---
 scripts/extract-bitmap.py | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 scripts/extract-bitmap.py

diff --git a/scripts/extract-bitmap.py b/scripts/extract-bitmap.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f5ca341
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/extract-bitmap.py
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# This python script helps in extracting the dirty bitmap present
+# in the file after executing the log-dirty-bitmap command either
+# from the qmp or hmp interface. This file only processes binary
+# file obtained via command.
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2014 Sanidhya Kashyap <address@hidden>
+#
+# Authors:
+#       Sanidhya Kashyap
+#
+#
+# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+
+import struct
+import argparse
+from functools import partial
+
+long_bytes = 8
+complete_bitmap_list = []
+
+def get_unsigned_long_integer(value):
+    return struct.unpack('<Q', value)[0]
+
+def get_long_integer(value):
+    return struct.unpack('<q',value)[0]
+
+def dump_bitmap(infile, bitmap_length):
+    count = 1
+    bitmap_list = []
+    for value in iter(partial(infile.read, long_bytes), ''):
+        if (count % bitmap_length):
+            count += 1
+            bitmap_list.append(hex(get_unsigned_long_integer(value)))
+        else:
+            complete_bitmap_list.append(bitmap_list)
+            count = 1
+            bitmap_list = []
+    # currently, the complete list is printed. It is up to the user to decide 
about
+    # the usage of the bitmap as the bitmap provides the writable working set 
of the
+    # VM for a particular duration.
+    print complete_bitmap_list
+
+def main():
+    extracter = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Extract dirty bitmap from 
binary file.')
+    extracter.add_argument('infile', help='Input file to extract the bitmap')
+    args = extracter.parse_args()
+    print 'The filename is {}'.format(args.infile)
+
+    infile = open(format(args.infile), 'rb')
+
+    ram_bitmap_pages = get_long_integer(infile.read(long_bytes))
+    print ram_bitmap_pages
+    bitmap_length = ram_bitmap_pages / long_bytes
+    if ram_bitmap_pages % long_bytes != 0:
+        bitmap_length += 1
+    print bitmap_length
+
+    dump_bitmap(infile, bitmap_length);
+
+    infile.close()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
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