According to the NBD spec, a server that advertises
NBD_FLAG_CAN_MULTI_CONN promises that multiple client connections will
not see any cache inconsistencies: when properly separated by a single
flush, actions performed by one client will be visible to another
client, regardless of which client did the flush.
We always satisfy these conditions in qemu - even when we support
multiple clients, ALL clients go through a single point of reference
into the block layer, with no local caching. The effect of one client
is instantly visible to the next client. Even if our backend were a
network device, we argue that any multi-path caching effects that
would cause inconsistencies in back-to-back actions not seeing the
effect of previous actions would be a bug in that backend, and not the
fault of caching in qemu. As such, it is safe to unconditionally
advertise CAN_MULTI_CONN for any qemu NBD server situation that
supports parallel clients.
Note, however, that we don't want to advertise CAN_MULTI_CONN when we
know that a second client cannot connect (for historical reasons,
qemu-nbd defaults to a single connection while nbd-server-add and QMP
commands default to unlimited connections; but we already have
existing means to let either style of NBD server creation alter those
defaults). This is visible by no longer advertising MULTI_CONN for
'qemu-nbd -r' without -e, as in the iotest nbd-qemu-allocation.
The harder part of this patch is setting up an iotest to demonstrate
behavior of multiple NBD clients to a single server. It might be
possible with parallel qemu-io processes, but I found it easier to do
in python with the help of libnbd, and help from Nir and Vladimir in
writing the test.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Nir Soffer <nsoffer@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <v.sementsov-og@mail.ru>
Message-Id: <20220512004924.417153-3-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Hi all! Current logic of relying on search through backing chain is not
safe neither convenient.
Sometimes it leads to necessity of extra bitmap copying. Also, we are
going to add "snapshot-access" driver, to access some snapshot state
through NBD. And this driver is not formally a filter, and of course
it's not a COW format driver. So, searching through backing chain will
not work. Instead of widening the workaround of bitmap searching, let's
extend the interface so that user can select bitmap precisely.
Note, that checking for bitmap active status is not copied to the new
API, I don't see a reason for it, user should understand the risks. And
anyway, bitmap from other node is unrelated to this export being
read-only or read-write.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@openvz.org>
Message-Id: <20220314213226.362217-3-v.sementsov-og@mail.ru>
[eblake: Adjust S-o-b to Vladimir's new email, with permission]
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
@hide and @soft are potential additions which fits the TODO section
perfectly.
The main motivation is to avoid this whole block of comment entering
the wrong section in the python parser.
Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220328140604.41484-2-victortoso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Fix long line introduced in commit bb01ea7311 ("qapi/block:
Restrict vhost-user-blk to CONFIG_VHOST_USER_BLK_SERVER").
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20220119121439.214821-1-f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
When building QEMU with --disable-vhost-user and using introspection,
query-qmp-schema lists vhost-user-blk even though it's not actually
available:
{ "execute": "query-qmp-schema" }
{
"return": [
...
{
"name": "312",
"members": [
{
"name": "nbd"
},
{
"name": "vhost-user-blk"
}
],
"meta-type": "enum",
"values": [
"nbd",
"vhost-user-blk"
]
},
Restrict vhost-user-blk in BlockExportType when
CONFIG_VHOST_USER_BLK_SERVER is disabled, so it
doesn't end listed by query-qmp-schema.
Fixes: 90fc91d50b ("convert vhost-user-blk server to block export API")
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20220107105420.395011-4-f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Change the 'if' condition strings to be C-agnostic. It will accept
'[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*' identifiers. This allows to express configuration
conditions in other languages (Rust or Python for ex) or other more
suitable forms.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210804083105.97531-11-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Rebased with semantic conflict in redefined-event.json]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Without the allow_other mount option, no user (not even root) but the
one who started qemu/the storage daemon can access the export. Allow
users to configure the export such that such accesses are possible.
While allow_other is probably what users want, we cannot make it an
unconditional default, because passing it is only possible (for non-root
users) if the global fuse.conf configuration file allows it. Thus, the
default is an 'auto' mode, in which we first try with allow_other, and
then fall back to without.
FuseExport.allow_other reports whether allow_other was actually used as
a mount option or not. Currently, this information is not used, but a
future patch will let this field decide whether e.g. an export's UID and
GID can be changed through chmod.
One notable thing about 'auto' mode is that libfuse may print error
messages directly to stderr, and so may fusermount (which it executes).
Our export code cannot really filter or hide them. Therefore, if 'auto'
fails its first attempt and has to fall back, fusermount will print an
error message that mounting with allow_other failed.
This behavior necessitates a change to iotest 308, namely we need to
filter out this error message (because if the first attempt at mounting
with allow_other succeeds, there will be no such message).
Furthermore, common.rc's _make_test_img should use allow-other=off for
FUSE exports, because iotests generally do not need to access images
from other users, so allow-other=on or allow-other=auto have no
advantage. OTOH, allow-other=on will not work on systems where
user_allow_other is disabled, and with allow-other=auto, we get said
error message that we would need to filter out again. Just disabling
allow-other is simplest.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210625142317.271673-3-mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
These will behave more like normal files in that writes beyond the EOF
will automatically grow the export size.
As an optimization, keep the RESIZE permission for growable exports so
we do not have to take it for every post-EOF write. (This permission is
not released when the export is destroyed, because at that point the
BlockBackend is destroyed altogether anyway.)
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201027190600.192171-5-mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
block-export-add type=fuse allows mounting block graph nodes via FUSE on
some existing regular file. That file should then appears like a raw
disk image, and accesses to it result in accesses to the exported BDS.
Right now, we only implement the necessary block export functions to set
it up and shut it down. We do not implement any access functions, so
accessing the mount point only results in errors. This will be
addressed by a followup patch.
We keep a hash table of exported mount points, because we want to be
able to detect when users try to use a mount point twice. This is
because we invoke stat() to check whether the given mount point is a
regular file, but if that file is served by ourselves (because it is
already used as a mount point), then this stat() would have to be served
by ourselves, too, which is impossible to do while we (as the caller)
are waiting for it to settle. Therefore, keep track of mount point
paths to at least catch the most obvious instances of that problem.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201027190600.192171-3-mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We use x.y most of the time, and x.y.0 sometimes. Normalize for
consistency.
Reported-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201118064158.3359056-1-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Allow the server to expose an additional metacontext to be requested
by savvy clients. qemu-nbd adds a new option -A to expose the
qemu:allocation-depth metacontext through NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS; this
can also be set via QMP when using block-export-add.
qemu as client is hacked into viewing the key aspects of this new
context by abusing the already-experimental x-dirty-bitmap option to
collapse all depths greater than 2, which results in a tri-state value
visible in the output of 'qemu-img map --output=json' (yes, that means
x-dirty-bitmap is now a bit of a misnomer, but I didn't feel like
renaming it as it would introduce a needless break of back-compat,
even though we make no compat guarantees with x- members):
unallocated (depth 0) => "zero":false, "data":true
local (depth 1) => "zero":false, "data":false
backing (depth 2+) => "zero":true, "data":true
libnbd as client is probably a nicer way to get at the information
without having to decipher such hacks in qemu as client. ;)
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201027050556.269064-11-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Since 'block-export-add' is new to 5.2, we can still tweak the
interface; there, allowing 'bitmaps':['str'] is nicer than
'bitmap':'str'. This wires up the qapi and qemu-nbd changes to permit
passing multiple bitmaps as distinct metadata contexts that the NBD
client may request, but the actual support for more than one will
require a further patch to the server.
Note that there are no changes made to the existing deprecated
'nbd-server-add' command; this required splitting the QAPI type
BlockExportOptionsNbd, which fortunately does not affect QMP
introspection.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201027050556.269064-5-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Allow the number of queues to be configured using --export
vhost-user-blk,num-queues=N. This setting should match the QEMU --device
vhost-user-blk-pci,num-queues=N setting but QEMU vhost-user-blk.c lowers
its own value if the vhost-user-blk backend offers fewer queues than
QEMU.
The vhost-user-blk-server.c code is already capable of multi-queue. All
virtqueue processing runs in the same AioContext. No new locking is
needed.
Add the num-queues=N option and set the VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ feature bit.
Note that the feature bit only announces the presence of the num_queues
configuration space field. It does not promise that there is more than 1
virtqueue, so we can set it unconditionally.
I tested multi-queue by running a random read fio test with numjobs=4 on
an -smp 4 guest. After the benchmark finished the guest /proc/interrupts
file showed activity on all 4 virtio-blk MSI-X. The /sys/block/vda/mq/
directory shows that Linux blk-mq has 4 queues configured.
An automated test is included in the next commit.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20201001144604.559733-2-stefanha@redhat.com
[Fixed accidental tab characters as suggested by Markus Armbruster
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Make it possible to specify the iothread where the export will run. By
default the block node can be moved to other AioContexts later and the
export will follow. The fixed-iothread option forces strict behavior
that prevents changing AioContext while the export is active. See the
QAPI docs for details.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20200929125516.186715-5-stefanha@redhat.com
[Fix stray '#' character in block-export.json and add missing "(since:
5.2)" as suggested by Eric Blake.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Use the new QAPI block exports API instead of defining our own QOM
objects.
This is a large change because the lifecycle of VuBlockDev needs to
follow BlockExportDriver. QOM properties are replaced by QAPI options
objects.
VuBlockDev is renamed VuBlkExport and contains a BlockExport field.
Several fields can be dropped since BlockExport already has equivalents.
The file names and meson build integration will be adjusted in a future
patch. libvhost-user should probably be built as a static library that
is linked into QEMU instead of as a .c file that results in duplicate
compilation.
The new command-line syntax is:
$ qemu-storage-daemon \
--blockdev file,node-name=drive0,filename=test.img \
--export vhost-user-blk,node-name=drive0,id=export0,unix-socket=/tmp/vhost-user-blk.sock
Note that unix-socket is optional because we may wish to accept chardevs
too in the future.
Markus noted that supported address families are not explicit in the
QAPI schema. It is unlikely that support for more address families will
be added since file descriptor passing is required and few address
families support it. If a new address family needs to be added, then the
QAPI 'features' syntax can be used to advertize them.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20200924151549.913737-12-stefanha@redhat.com
[Skip test on big-endian host architectures because this device doesn't
support them yet (as already mentioned in a code comment).
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
These QMP commands are replaced by block-export-add/del.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-28-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The 'writable' option is a basic option that will probably be applicable
to most if not all export types that we will implement. Move it from NBD
to the generic BlockExport layer.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-26-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This adds a simple QMP command to query the list of block exports.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-25-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Clients may want to know when an export has finally disappeard
(block-export-del returns earlier than that in the general case), so add
a QAPI event for it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-22-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Implement a new QMP command block-export-del and make nbd-server-remove
a wrapper around it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-21-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We'll need an id to identify block exports in monitor commands. This
adds one.
Note that this is different from the 'name' option in the NBD server,
which is the externally visible export name. While block export ids need
to be unique in the whole process, export names must be unique only for
the same server. Different export types or (potentially in the future)
multiple NBD servers can have the same export name externally, but still
need different block export ids internally.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-19-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Every block export needs a block node to export, so add a 'node-name'
option to BlockExportOptions and remove the replaced option 'device'
from BlockExportOptionsNbd.
To maintain compatibility in nbd-server-add, BlockExportOptionsNbd needs
to be wrapped by a new type NbdServerAddOptions that adds 'device' back
because nbd-server-add doesn't use the BlockExportOptions base type at
all (so even without changing it to a 'node-name' option in
block-export-add, this compatibility code would be necessary).
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-16-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
qemu-nbd allows use of writethrough cache modes, which mean that write
requests made through NBD will cause a flush before they complete.
Expose the same functionality in block-export-add.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-10-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This is a QMP equivalent of qemu-nbd's --shared option, limiting the
maximum number of clients that can attach at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-9-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We want to have a common set of commands for all types of block exports.
Currently, this is only NBD, but we're going to add more types.
This patch adds the basic BlockExport and BlockExportDriver structs and
a QMP command block-export-add that creates a new export based on the
given BlockExportOptions.
qmp_nbd_server_add() becomes a wrapper around qmp_block_export_add().
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-5-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The name BlockExport will be used for the struct containing the runtime
state of block exports, so change the name of export creation options.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-4-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Move all block export related types and commands from block-core to the
new QAPI module block-export.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924152717.287415-3-kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
