On 08/02/2021 16:25, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Olaf Hering writes ("[PATCH v20210111 08/39] xl: fix description of migrate
> --debug"):
>> xl migrate --debug used to track every pfn in every batch of pages.
>> But these times are gone. Adjust the help text to tell what --debug
>> is supposed to do today.
> ...
>> -Display huge (!) amount of debug information during the migration process.
>> +Verify transferred domU page data. All memory will be transferred one more
>> +time to the destination host while the domU is paused, and compared with
>> +the result of the inital transfer while the domU was still running.
> Andy, as our expert on migration, can you confirm whether this is
> accurate ?
>
> Docs (including usage message) so
>
> Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <i...@xenproject.org>
Yeah - I totally changed what --debug did in migration v2, and this is
stale. The legacy behaviour was unhelpful on any non-trivial guest.
It is possibly worth noting that you typically do see changed data when
using --debug, because of how the front/back pairs work. This was a bit
of a curveball during development.
~Andrew
