Re: [PATCH v3 qemu 0/3] Allow dump-guest-memory to output standard kdump format

[Stephen Brennan]

Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi
>
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 3:32 AM Stephen Brennan
> <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> This is the third version of the kdump patch series, the first and
>> second revisions being visible at [1] and [2] respectively. You can see
>> the history and motivation for the patch series described in the cover
>> letter of [2].
>>
>> Thank you for your continued feedback and review.
>> Stephen
>>
>> Changes from v2 to v3:
>> - Rather than use "reassembled" flag in QMP API, represent each kdump
>>   format "kdump-X" with a new enumerator "kdump-raw-X". (The HMP
>>   interface retains the -R option)
>> - Return an error if the file descriptor passed in is not seekable, yet
>>   the requested dump format is kdump-raw-*
>>
>> Changes from v1 to v2:
>> - Keep the default as the flattened format
>> - Add QMP / HMP arguments for "reassembled"
>>
>> [1]: 
>> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230717163855.7383-1-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com/
>> [2]: 
>> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230914010315.945705-1-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com/
>>
>> Stephen Brennan (3):
>>   dump: Pass DumpState to write_ functions
>>   dump: Allow directly outputting raw kdump format
>>   dump: Add command interface for kdump-raw formats
>>
>>  dump/dump-hmp-cmds.c  | 21 +++++++--
>>  dump/dump.c           | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>  hmp-commands.hx       |  9 +++-
>>  include/sysemu/dump.h |  3 +-
>>  qapi/dump.json        | 24 +++++++++--
>>  5 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.39.3
>>
>
> For the series:
> Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>
> -- 
> Marc-André Lureau

Hello,

Will this be queued for version 8.2? I see here[1] that the feature
freeze is November 7. I'm not really familiar with QEMU development so I
didn't know if there was a "linux-next" equivalent I could check.

[1]: https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/8.2

Thanks,
Stephen