Add support for limiting guest coredump

Sometimes when guest machine crashes, coredump can get huge due to the
guest memory. This can be limited using madvise(2) system call and is
being used in QEMU hypervisor. This patch adds an option for configuring
that in the domain XML and related documentation.

5 files changed, 52 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index a403ba8c5..f05350e80 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -515,9 +515,15 @@
         However, the value will be rounded up to the nearest kibibyte
         by libvirt, and may be further rounded to the granularity
         supported by the hypervisor.  Some hypervisors also enforce a
-        minimum, such as
-        4000KiB. <span class='since'><code>unit</code> since
-        0.9.11</span></dd>
+        minimum, such as 4000KiB.
+
+        In the case of crash, optional attribute <code>dumpCore</code>
+        can be used to control whether the guest memory should be
+        included in the generated coredump or not (values "on", "off").
+
+        <span class='since'><code>unit</code> since 0.9.11</span>,
+        <span class='since'><code>dumpCore</code> since 0.10.2
+        (QEMU only)</span></dd>
       <dt><code>currentMemory</code></dt>
       <dd>The actual allocation of memory for the guest. This value can
         be less than the maximum allocation, to allow for ballooning
diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index afa6bbd19..75afac2e1 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -470,6 +470,14 @@
     <interleave>
       <element name="memory">
         <ref name='scaledInteger'/>
+        <optional>
+          <attribute name="dumpCore">
+            <choice>
+              <value>on</value>
+              <value>off</value>
+            </choice>
+          </attribute>
+        </optional>
       </element>
       <optional>
         <element name="currentMemory">
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index d6f2ebfe2..4b20b72f3 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -381,6 +381,11 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainSoundModel, VIR_DOMAIN_SOUND_MODEL_LAST,
               "ac97",
               "ich6")
 
+VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainMemDump, VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_DUMP_LAST,
+              "default",
+              "on",
+              "off")
+
 VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainMemballoonModel, VIR_DOMAIN_MEMBALLOON_MODEL_LAST,
               "virtio",
               "xen",
@@ -8524,6 +8529,18 @@ static virDomainDefPtr virDomainDefParseXML(virCapsPtr caps,
                              &def->mem.cur_balloon, false) < 0)
         goto error;
 
+    /* and info about it */
+    tmp = virXPathString("string(./memory[1]/@dumpCore)", ctxt);
+    if (tmp) {
+        def->mem.dump_core = virDomainMemDumpTypeFromString(tmp);
+
+        if (def->mem.dump_core <= 0) {
+            virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, _("Bad value '%s'"), tmp);
+            goto error;
+        }
+        VIR_FREE(tmp);
+    }
+
     if (def->mem.cur_balloon > def->mem.max_balloon) {
         /* Older libvirt could get into this situation due to
          * rounding; if the discrepancy is less than 1MiB, we silently
@@ -13266,8 +13283,13 @@ virDomainDefFormatInternal(virDomainDefPtr def,
         xmlIndentTreeOutput = oldIndentTreeOutput;
     }
 
-    virBufferAsprintf(buf, "  <memory unit='KiB'>%llu</memory>\n",
+    virBufferAddLit(buf, "  <memory");
+    if (def->mem.dump_core)
+        virBufferAsprintf(buf, " dumpCore='%s'",
+                          virDomainMemDumpTypeToString(def->mem.dump_core));
+    virBufferAsprintf(buf, " unit='KiB'>%llu</memory>\n",
                       def->mem.max_balloon);
+
     virBufferAsprintf(buf, "  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>%llu</currentMemory>\n",
                       def->mem.cur_balloon);
 
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index d719d57da..fae699f7d 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -1320,6 +1320,14 @@ struct _virDomainRedirFilterDef {
     virDomainRedirFilterUsbDevDefPtr *usbdevs;
 };
 
+enum virDomainMemDump {
+    VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_DUMP_DEFAULT = 0,
+    VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_DUMP_ON,
+    VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_DUMP_OFF,
+
+    VIR_DOMAIN_MEM_DUMP_LAST,
+};
+
 enum {
     VIR_DOMAIN_MEMBALLOON_MODEL_VIRTIO,
     VIR_DOMAIN_MEMBALLOON_MODEL_XEN,
@@ -1641,6 +1649,7 @@ struct _virDomainDef {
         unsigned long long max_balloon; /* in kibibytes */
         unsigned long long cur_balloon; /* in kibibytes */
         bool hugepage_backed;
+        int dump_core; /* enum virDomainMemDump */
         unsigned long long hard_limit; /* in kibibytes */
         unsigned long long soft_limit; /* in kibibytes */
         unsigned long long min_guarantee; /* in kibibytes */
@@ -2177,6 +2186,7 @@ VIR_ENUM_DECL(virDomainChrTcpProtocol)
 VIR_ENUM_DECL(virDomainChrSpicevmc)
 VIR_ENUM_DECL(virDomainSoundCodec)
 VIR_ENUM_DECL(virDomainSoundModel)
+VIR_ENUM_DECL(virDomainMemDump)
 VIR_ENUM_DECL(virDomainMemballoonModel)
 VIR_ENUM_DECL(virDomainSmbiosMode)
 VIR_ENUM_DECL(virDomainWatchdogModel)
diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
index 0b538950e..0b6068d44 100644
--- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
+++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
@@ -426,6 +426,8 @@ virDomainLiveConfigHelperMethod;
 virDomainLoadAllConfigs;
 virDomainMemballoonModelTypeFromString;
 virDomainMemballoonModelTypeToString;
+virDomainMemDumpTypeFromString;
+virDomainMemDumpTypeToString;
 virDomainNetDefFree;
 virDomainNetFind;
 virDomainNetGetActualBandwidth;