In practice the entry argument is always known at creation time, and
it is confusing that sometimes qemu_coroutine_enter is used with a
non-NULL argument to re-enter a coroutine (this happens in
block/sheepdog.c and tests/test-coroutine.c). So pass the opaque value
at creation time, for consistency with e.g. aio_bh_new.
Mostly done with the following semantic patch:
@ entry1 @
expression entry, arg, co;
@@
- co = qemu_coroutine_create(entry);
+ co = qemu_coroutine_create(entry, arg);
...
- qemu_coroutine_enter(co, arg);
+ qemu_coroutine_enter(co);
@ entry2 @
expression entry, arg;
identifier co;
@@
- Coroutine *co = qemu_coroutine_create(entry);
+ Coroutine *co = qemu_coroutine_create(entry, arg);
...
- qemu_coroutine_enter(co, arg);
+ qemu_coroutine_enter(co);
@ entry3 @
expression entry, arg;
@@
- qemu_coroutine_enter(qemu_coroutine_create(entry), arg);
+ qemu_coroutine_enter(qemu_coroutine_create(entry, arg));
@ reentry @
expression co;
@@
- qemu_coroutine_enter(co, NULL);
+ qemu_coroutine_enter(co);
except for the aforementioned few places where the semantic patch
stumbled (as expected) and for test_co_queue, which would otherwise
produce an uninitialized variable warning.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
No code changes, just moved from one file to another.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Using int for values that are only used as booleans is confusing.
While at it, rearrange a couple of members so that all the bools
are contiguous.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
It makes more sense to have ALL block size limit constraints
in the same struct. Improve the documentation while at it.
Simplify a couple of conditionals, now that we have audited and
documented that request_alignment is always non-zero.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We want to eventually stick request_alignment alongside other
BlockLimits, but first, we must ensure it is populated at the
same time as all other limits, rather than being a special case
that is set only when a block is first opened.
Now that all drivers have been updated to supply an override
of request_alignment during their .bdrv_refresh_limits(), as
needed, the block layer itself can defer setting the default
alignment until part of the overall bdrv_refresh_limits().
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
error_propagate() already ignores local_err==NULL, so there's no
need to check it before calling.
Coccinelle patch used to perform the changes added to
scripts/coccinelle/error_propagate_null.cocci.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1465855078-19435-2-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
It's possible that an AioContext notifier user was close to finishing
when .detach_aio_context() or .attached_aio_context() is called. In
that case they may call bdrv_remove_aio_context_notifier() during the
callback.
Use safe iteration to avoid crashing when the notifier list is modified
during iteration. We must not only handle the case where the current
aio notifier is removed during a callback but also the one where any
other aio notifier is removed.
The next patch adds an AioContext notifier for block jobs and they
really could be terminating just as .detach_aio_context() is invoked.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1466096189-6477-6-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com
Currently, we are trying to move the backing BDS from the source to the
target in bdrv_replace_in_backing_chain() which is called from
mirror_exit(). However, mirror_complete() already tries to open the
target's backing chain with a call to bdrv_open_backing_file().
First, we should only set the target's backing BDS once. Second, the
mirroring block job has a better idea of what to set it to than the
generic code in bdrv_replace_in_backing_chain() (in fact, the latter's
conditions on when to move the backing BDS from source to target are not
really correct).
Therefore, remove that code from bdrv_replace_in_backing_chain() and
leave it to mirror_complete().
Depending on what kind of mirroring is performed, we furthermore want to
use different strategies to open the target's backing chain:
- If blockdev-mirror is used, we can assume the user made sure that the
target already has the correct backing chain. In particular, we should
not try to open a backing file if the target does not have any yet.
- If drive-mirror with mode=absolute-paths is used, we can and should
reuse the already existing chain of nodes that the source BDS is in.
In case of sync=full, no backing BDS is required; with sync=top, we
just link the source's backing BDS to the target, and with sync=none,
we use the source BDS as the target's backing BDS.
We should not try to open these backing files anew because this would
lead to two BDSs existing per physical file in the backing chain, and
we would like to avoid such concurrent access.
- If drive-mirror with mode=existing is used, we have to use the
information provided in the physical image file which means opening
the target's backing chain completely anew, just as it has been done
already.
If the target's backing chain shares images with the source, this may
lead to multiple BDSs per physical image file. But since we cannot
reliably ascertain this case, there is nothing we can do about it.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20160610185750.30956-3-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
change_parent_backing_link() asserts that the BDS to be replaced is not
used as a backing file. However, we may want to replace a BDS by its
overlay in which case that very link should not be redirected.
For instance, when doing a sync=none drive-mirror operation, we may have
the following BDS/BB forest before block job completion:
target
base <- source <- BlockBackend
During job completion, we want to establish the source BDS as the
target's backing node:
target
|
v
base <- source <- BlockBackend
This makes the target a valid replacement for the source:
target <- BlockBackend
|
v
base <- source
Without this modification to change_parent_backing_link() we have to
inject the target into the graph before the source is its backing node,
thus temporarily creating a wrong graph:
target <- BlockBackend
base <- source
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20160610185750.30956-2-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
snapshot=on creates a temporary overlay that is always opened with
cache=unsafe (the cache mode specified by the user is only for the
actual image file and its children). This means that we must not inherit
the BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO flag for the temporary overlay because trying to
use Linux AIO with cache=unsafe results in an error.
Reproducer without this patch:
$ x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/tmp/test.qcow2,cache=none,aio=native,snapshot=on
qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/tmp/test.qcow2,cache=none,aio=native,snapshot=on: aio=native was
specified, but it requires cache.direct=on, which was not specified.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
It is always true for open images now.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
If block drivers say that they can do an alignment < 512 bytes, let's
just suppose they mean it. raw-posix used to be an offender with respect
to this, but it can actually deal with byte-aligned requests now.
The default is still 512 bytes for any drivers that only implement
sector-based interfaces, but it is 1 now for drivers that implement
.bdrv_co_preadv.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
at least bdrv_co_preadv/pwritev expect this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
So far, bdrv_close_all() first removed all root BlockDriverStates of
BlockBackends and monitor owned BDSes, and then assumed that the
remaining BDSes must be related to jobs and cancelled these jobs.
This order doesn't work that well any more when block jobs use
BlockBackends internally because then they will lose their BDS before
being cancelled.
This patch changes bdrv_close_all() to first cancel all jobs and then
remove all root BDSes from the remaining BBs.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
When draining intermediate nodes (i.e. nodes that aren't the root node
for at least one of their parents; with node references, the user can
always configure the graph to create this situation), we need to
propagate the .drained_begin/end callbacks all the way up to the root
for the drain to be effective.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
When changing the BlockDriverState that a BdrvChild points to while the
node is currently drained, we must call the .drained_end() parent
callback. Conversely, when this means attaching a new node that is
already drained, we need to call .drained_begin().
bdrv_root_attach_child() takes now an opaque parameter, which is needed
because the callbacks must also be called if we're attaching a new child
to the BlockBackend when the root node is already drained, and they need
a way to identify the BlockBackend. Previously, child->opaque was set
too late and the callbacks would still see it as NULL.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
This adds a common function that is called when attaching a new child to
a parent, removing a child from a parent and when reconfiguring the
graph so that an existing child points to a different node now.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
bdrv_close() now asserts that the BDS's refcount is 0, therefore it
cannot have any parents and the bdrv_parent_cb_change_media() call is a
no-op.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The only caller of bdrv_close() left is bdrv_delete(). We may as well
assert that, in a way (there are some things in bdrv_close() that make
more sense under that assumption, such as the call to
bdrv_release_all_dirty_bitmaps() which in turn assumes that no frozen
bitmaps are attached to the BDS).
In addition, being called only in bdrv_delete() means that we can drop
bdrv_close()'s forward declaration at the top of block.c.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
There are no callers to bdrv_open() or bdrv_open_inherit() left that
pass a pointer to a non-NULL BDS pointer as the first argument of these
functions, so we can finally drop that parameter and just make them
return the new BDS.
Generally, the following pattern is applied:
bs = NULL;
ret = bdrv_open(&bs, ..., &local_err);
if (ret < 0) {
error_propagate(errp, local_err);
...
}
by
bs = bdrv_open(..., errp);
if (!bs) {
ret = -EINVAL;
...
}
Of course, there are only a few instances where the pattern is really
pure.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
It is unused now, so we may just as well drop it.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
If bdrv_open_inherit() creates a snapshot BDS and *pbs is NULL, that
snapshot BDS should be returned instead of the BDS under it.
This has worked so far because (nearly) all users of BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT use
blk_new_open() to create the BDS tree. bdrv_append() (which is called by
bdrv_append_temp_snapshot()) redirects pointers from parents (i.e. the
BB in this case) to the newly appended child (i.e. the overlay),
therefore, while bdrv_open_inherit() did not return the root BDS, the BB
still pointed to it.
The only instance where BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT is used but blk_new_open() is
not is in blockdev_init() if no BDS tree is created, and instead
blk_new() is used and the flags are stored in the BB root state.
However, qmp_blockdev_change_medium() filters the BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT flag
before invoking bdrv_open(), so it will not have any effect.
In any case, it would be nicer if bdrv_open_inherit() could just always
return the root of the BDS tree that has been created.
To this end, bdrv_append_temp_snapshot() now returns the snapshot BDS
instead of just appending it on top of the snapshotted BDS. Also, it
calls bdrv_ref() before bdrv_append() (which bdrv_open_inherit() has to
undo if not returning the overlay).
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
bdrv_append_temp_snapshot() uses bdrv_new() to create an empty BDS
before invoking bdrv_open() on that BDS. This is probably a relict from
when it used to do some modifications on that empty BDS, but now that is
unnecessary, so we can just set bs_snapshot to NULL and let bdrv_open()
do the rest.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The bdrv_next() users all leaked the BdrvNextIterator after completing
the iteration. Simply changing bdrv_next() to free the iterator before
returning NULL at the end of list doesn't work because some callers exit
the loop before looking at all BDSes.
This patch moves the BdrvNextIterator from the heap to the stack of
the caller and switches to a bdrv_first()/bdrv_next() interface for
initialising the iterator.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Instead of propagating any change of a BDS's AioContext only to its file
and backing children and letting driver-specific code do the rest, just
propagate it to all and drop the thus superfluous implementations of
bdrv_{at,de}tach_aio_context() in Quorum, blkverify and VMDK.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This patch removes the remaining users of bs->blk, which will allow us
to have multiple BBs on top of a single BDS. In the meantime, all checks
that are currently in place to prevent the user from creating such
setups can be switched to bdrv_has_blk() instead of accessing BDS.blk.
Future patches can allow them and e.g. enable users to mirror to a block
device that already has a BlockBackend on it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
We need to introduce a separate BdrvNextIterator struct that can keep
more state than just the current BDS in order to avoid using the bs->blk
pointer.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
In order to get rid of bs->blk for bdrv_get_device_name() and
bdrv_get_device_or_node_name(), ask all parents for their name and
simply pick the first one.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
We want to get rid of BlockDriverState.blk in order to allow multiple
BlockBackends per BDS. Converting the device callbacks in block.c (which
assume a single BlockBackend) to per-child callbacks gets us rid of the
first few instances.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 76b223200e.
Now that I/O throttling is fully done on the BlockBackend level, there
is no reason any more to block I/O throttling for nodes with multiple
parents as the parents don't influence each other any more.
Conflicts:
block.c
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
bdrv_move_feature_fields() and swap_feature_fields() are empty now, they
can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This moves the throttling related part of the BDS life cycle management
to BlockBackend. The throttling group reference is now kept even when no
medium is inserted.
With this commit, throttling isn't disabled and then re-enabled any more
during graph reconfiguration. This fixes the temporary breakage of I/O
throttling when used with live snapshots or block jobs that manipulate
the graph.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This patch changes where the throttling state is stored (used to be the
BlockDriverState, now it is the BlockBackend), but it doesn't actually
make it a BB level feature yet. For example, throttling is still
disabled when the BDS is detached from the BB.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
It was already true in principle that a throttled BDS always has a BB
attached, except that the order of operations while attaching or
detaching a BDS to/from a BB wasn't careful enough.
This commit breaks graph manipulations while I/O throttling is enabled.
It would have been possible to keep things working with some temporary
hacks, but quite cumbersome, so it's not worth the hassle. We'll fix
things again in a minute.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
In some cases, we want to take a quorum child offline, and take
another child online.
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Changlong Xie <xiecl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: 1462865799-19402-2-git-send-email-xiecl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Currently we only inactivate the top BDS. Actually bdrv_inactivate
should be the opposite of bdrv_invalidate_cache.
Recurse into the whole subtree instead.
Because a node may have multiple parents, and because once
BDRV_O_INACTIVE is set for a node, further writes are not allowed, we
cannot interleave flag settings and .bdrv_inactivate calls (that may
submit write to other nodes in a graph) within a single pass. Therefore
two passes are used here.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Currently we only recurse to bs->file, which will miss the children in quorum
and VMDK.
Recurse into the whole subtree to avoid that.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
There are no block drivers left that implement the old .bdrv_read/write
interface, so it can be removed now. This gets us rid of the
corresponding emulation functions, too.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Extract the handling of throttling from bdrv_flush_io_queue. These
new functions will soon become BdrvChildRole callbacks, as they can
be generalized to "beginning of drain" and "end of drain".
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
As the patches to move I/O throttling to BlockBackend didn't make it in
time for the 2.6 release, but the release adds new ways of configuring
VMs whose behaviour would change once the move is done, we need to
outlaw such configurations temporarily.
The problem exists whenever a BDS has more users than just its BB, for
example it is used as a backing file for another node. (This wasn't
possible in 2.5 yet as we introduced node references to specify a
backing file only recently.) In these cases, the throttling would
apply to these other users now, but after moving throttling to the
BlockBackend the other users wouldn't be throttled any more.
This patch prevents making new references to a throttled node as well as
using monitor commands to throttle a node with multiple parents.
Compared to 2.5 this changes behaviour in some corner cases where
references were allowed before, like bs->file or Quorum children. It
seems reasonable to assume that users didn't use I/O throttling on such
low level nodes. With the upcoming move of throttling into BlockBackend,
such configurations won't be possible anyway.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The only remaining users were block jobs (mirror and backup) which
unconditionally enabled WCE on the BlockBackend of the target image. As
these block jobs don't go through BlockBackend for their I/O requests,
they aren't affected by this setting anyway but always get a writeback
mode, so that call can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The previous patches have successively made blk->enable_write_cache the
true source for the information whether a writethrough mode must be
implemented. The corresponding BDRV_O_CACHE_WB is only useless baggage
we're carrying around, so now's the time to remove it.
At the same time, we remove the 'cache.writeback' option parsing on the
BDS level as the only effect was setting the BDRV_O_CACHE_WB flag.
This change requires test cases that explicitly enabled the option to
drop it. Other than that and the change of the error message when
writethrough is enabled on the BDS level (from "Can't set writethrough
mode" to "doesn't support the option"), there should be no change in
behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
We must forbid changing the WCE flag in bdrv_reopen() in the same patch,
as otherwise the behaviour would change so that the flag takes
precedence over the explicitly specified option.
The correct value of the WCE flag depends on the BlockBackend user (e.g.
guest device) and isn't a decision that the QMP client makes, so this
change is what we want.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Now that WCE is handled on the BlockBackend level, the flag is
meaningless for BDSes. As the schema requires us to fill the field,
we return an enabled write cache for them.
Note that this means that querying the BlockBackend name may return
writethrough as the cache information, whereas querying the node-name of
the root of that same BlockBackend will return writeback.
This may appear odd at first, but it actually makes sense because it
correctly repesents the layer that implements the WCE handling. This
becomes more apparent when you consider nodes that are the root node of
multiple BlockBackends, where each BB can have its own WCE setting.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Whether a write cache is used or not is a decision that concerns the
user (e.g. the guest device) rather than the backend. It was already
logically part of the BB level as bdrv_move_feature_fields() always kept
it on top of the BDS tree; with this patch, the core of it (the actual
flag and the additional flushes) is also implemented there.
Direct callers of bdrv_open() must pass BDRV_O_CACHE_WB now if bs
doesn't have a BlockBackend attached.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
