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[PULL,09/13] docs/vmcoreinfo: detail unsupported host format behaviour

Message ID 1519922735-29054-10-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com
State New
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Series [PULL,01/13] vhost-user: fix memory leak | expand

Commit Message

Michael S. Tsirkin March 1, 2018, 4:46 p.m. UTC 
From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>

Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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 docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt
index 8212610..bcbca6f 100644
--- a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@  processing of entry values.
 A write of 0 in guest_format will disable further processing of
 vmcoreinfo entry values & content.
 
+You may write a guest_format that is not supported by the host, in
+which case the entry data can be ignored by qemu (but you may still
+access it through a debugger, via vmcoreinfo_realize::vmcoreinfo_state).
+
 Format & content
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