Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 05/14 v9] Add API to get memory mapping

[HATAYAMA Daisuke]

From: Wen Congyang <address@hidden>
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 05/14 v9] Add API to get memory mapping
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:07:48 +0800

> Add API to get all virtual address and physical address mapping.
> If the guest doesn't use paging, the virtual address is equal to the phyical
> address. The virtual address and physical address mapping is for gdb's user, 
> and
> it does not include the memory that is not referenced by the page table. So if
> you want to use crash to anaylze the vmcore, please do not specify -p option.

It's necessary to write the reason why the -p option is not default
explicitly: guest machine in a catastrophic state can have corrupted
memory, which we cannot trust.

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke