Commit 5500316 (May 2012) implemented raw_co_is_allocated() as
follows:
1. If defined(CONFIG_FIEMAP), use the FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl
2. Else if defined(SEEK_HOLE) && defined(SEEK_DATA), use lseek()
3. Else pretend there are no holes
Later on, raw_co_is_allocated() was generalized to
raw_co_get_block_status().
Commit 4f11aa8 (May 2014) changed it to try the three methods in order
until success, because "there may be implementations which support
[SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA] but not [FIEMAP] (e.g., NFSv4.2) as well as vice
versa."
Unfortunately, we used FIEMAP incorrectly: we lacked FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC.
Commit 38c4d0a (Sep 2014) added it. Because that's a significant
speed hit, the next commit 7c159037 put SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA first.
As you see, the obvious use of FIEMAP is wrong, and the correct use is
slow. I guess this puts it somewhere between -7 "The obvious use is
wrong" and -10 "It's impossible to get right" on Rusty Russel's Hard
to Misuse scale[*].
"Fortunately", the FIEMAP code is used only when
* SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA aren't defined, but CONFIG_FIEMAP is
Uncommon. SEEK_HOLE had no XFS implementation between 2011 (when it
was introduced for ext4 and btrfs) and 2012.
* SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA and CONFIG_FIEMAP are defined, but lseek() fails
Unlikely.
Thus, the FIEMAP code executes rarely. Makes it a nice hidey-hole for
bugs. Worse, bugs hiding there can theoretically bite even on a host
that has SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA.
I don't want to worry about this crap, not even theoretically. Get
rid of it.
[*] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Missed in commit 705be72.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Instead of generating the full return value thrice in try_fiemap(),
try_seek_hole() and as a fall-back in raw_co_get_block_status() itself,
generate the value only in raw_co_get_block_status().
While at it, also remove the pnum parameter from try_fiemap() and
try_seek_hole().
Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1414148280-17949-3-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
As its comment states, raw_co_get_block_status() should unconditionally
return 0 and set *pnum to 0 for after EOF.
An assertion after lseek(..., SEEK_HOLE) tried to catch this case by
asserting that errno != -ENXIO (which would indicate a position after
the EOF); but it should be errno != ENXIO instead. Regardless of that,
there should be no such assertion at all. If bdrv_getlength() returned
an outdated value and the image has been resized outside of qemu,
lseek() will return with errno == ENXIO. Just return that value as an
error then.
Setting *pnum to 0 and returning 0 should not be done here, as in that
case we should update the device length as well. So, from qemu's
perspective, the file has not been resized; it's just that there was an
error querying sectors beyond a certain point (the actual file size).
Additionally, nb_sectors should be clamped against the image end. This
was probably not an issue if FIEMAP or SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA worked, but
the fallback did not take this case into account.
Reported-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1414148280-17949-2-git-send-email-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Introduce a new flag to mark devices that require requests to be aligned and
replace the usage of BDRV_O_NOCACHE and O_DIRECT with this flag when
appropriate.
If a character device is used as a backend on a FreeBSD host set this flag
unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
I'll use it with block backends shortly, and the name is going to fit
badly there. It's a block layer thing anyway, not just a block driver
thing.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
I'll use BlockDriverAIOCB with block backends shortly, and the name is
going to fit badly there. It's a block layer thing anyway, not just a
block driver thing.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
try_fiemap() uses FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC which has a significant performance
impact.
Prefer seek_hole() over fiemap() to avoid this impact where possible.
seek_hole is more widely used and, arguably, has potential to be
optimised in the kernel.
Reported-By: Michael Steffens <michael_steffens@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Pádraig Brady <pbrady@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Using fiemap without FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC is a known corrupter.
Add the FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC flag to the FS_IOC_FIEMAP ioctl. This has
the downside of significantly reducing performance.
Reported-By: Michael Steffens <michael_steffens@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Pádraig Brady <pbrady@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Check for the presence of posix_fallocate() in configure and only
compile in support for PREALLOC_MODE_FALLOC when it's there.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
This patch adds a new option preallocation for raw format, and implements
falloc and full preallocation.
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
and avoid converting it back later.
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Canet <benoit.canet@nodalink.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Currently the file size requested by user is rounded down to nearest
sector, causing the actual file size could be a bit less than the size
user requested. Since some formats (like qcow2) record virtual disk
size in bytes, this can make the last few bytes cannot be accessed.
This patch fixes it by rounding up file size to nearest sector so that
the actual file size is no less than the requested file size.
Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The following O_DIRECT read from a <512 byte file fails:
$ truncate -s 320 test.img
$ qemu-io -n -c 'read -P 0 0 512' test.img
qemu-io: can't open device test.img: Could not read image for determining its format: Invalid argument
Note that qemu-io completes successfully without the -n (O_DIRECT)
option.
This patch fixes qemu-iotests ./check -nocache -vmdk 059.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
g_new(T, n) is neater than g_malloc(sizeof(T) * n). It's also safer,
for two reasons. One, it catches multiplication overflowing size_t.
Two, it returns T * rather than void *, which lets the compiler catch
more type errors.
Patch created with Coccinelle, with two manual changes on top:
* Add const to bdrv_iterate_format() to keep the types straight
* Convert the allocation in bdrv_drop_intermediate(), which Coccinelle
inexplicably misses
Coccinelle semantic patch:
@@
type T;
@@
-g_malloc(sizeof(T))
+g_new(T, 1)
@@
type T;
@@
-g_try_malloc(sizeof(T))
+g_try_new(T, 1)
@@
type T;
@@
-g_malloc0(sizeof(T))
+g_new0(T, 1)
@@
type T;
@@
-g_try_malloc0(sizeof(T))
+g_try_new0(T, 1)
@@
type T;
expression n;
@@
-g_malloc(sizeof(T) * (n))
+g_new(T, n)
@@
type T;
expression n;
@@
-g_try_malloc(sizeof(T) * (n))
+g_try_new(T, n)
@@
type T;
expression n;
@@
-g_malloc0(sizeof(T) * (n))
+g_new0(T, n)
@@
type T;
expression n;
@@
-g_try_malloc0(sizeof(T) * (n))
+g_try_new0(T, n)
@@
type T;
expression p, n;
@@
-g_realloc(p, sizeof(T) * (n))
+g_renew(T, p, n)
@@
type T;
expression p, n;
@@
-g_try_realloc(p, sizeof(T) * (n))
+g_try_renew(T, p, n)
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Some code in the block layer makes potentially huge allocations. Failure
is not completely unexpected there, so avoid aborting qemu and handle
out-of-memory situations gracefully.
This patch addresses the allocations in the raw-posix block driver.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
If qemu couldn't find out what O_DIRECT alignment to use with a given
file, it would run into assert(bdrv_opt_mem_align(bs) != 0); in block.c
and confuse users. This adds a more descriptive error message for such
cases.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
At least raw-posix relies on this because it can allocate bounce buffers
based on the request length, but access it using all of the qiov entries
later.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
This patch implements .bdrv_io_plug, .bdrv_io_unplug and
.bdrv_flush_io_queue callbacks for linux-aio Block Drivers,
so that submitting I/O as a batch can be supported on linux-aio.
[Unprocessed requests are completed with -EIO instead of a bogus ret
value.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
We got a merry mix of -1 and -errno here.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Add 'nocow' option so that users could have a chance to set NOCOW flag to
newly created files. It's useful on btrfs file system to enhance performance.
Btrfs has low performance when hosting VM images, even more when the guest
in those VM are also using btrfs as file system. One way to mitigate this bad
performance is to turn off COW attributes on VM files. Generally, there are
two ways to turn off NOCOW on btrfs: a) by mounting fs with nodatacow, then
all newly created files will be NOCOW. b) per file. Add the NOCOW file
attribute. It could only be done to empty or new files.
This patch tries the second way, according to the option, it could add NOCOW
per file.
For most block drivers, since the create file step is in raw-posix.c, so we
can do setting NOCOW flag ioctl in raw-posix.c only.
But there are some exceptions, like block/vpc.c and block/vdi.c, they are
creating file by calling qemu_open directly. For them, do the same setting
NOCOW flag ioctl work in them separately.
[Fixed up 082.out due to the new 'nocow' creation option
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Now that all backend drivers are using QemuOpts, remove all
QEMUOptionParameter related codes.
Signed-off-by: Dong Xu Wang <wdongxu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dong Xu Wang <wdongxu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
virtio-blk data-plane now uses the QEMU block layer for I/O. We do not
need raw_get_aio_fd() anymore. It was a layering violation anyway, so
let's get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Hot unplugging -drive aio=native,file=test.img,format=raw images leaves
the Linux AIO event notifier and struct qemu_laio_state allocated.
Luckily nothing will use the event notifier after the BlockDriverState
has been closed so the handler function is never called.
It's still worth fixing this resource leak.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Drop the assumption that we're using the main AioContext for Linux AIO.
Convert the Linux AIO event notifier to use aio_set_event_notifier().
The .bdrv_detach/attach_aio_context() interfaces also need to be
implemented to move the event notifier handler from the old to the new
AioContext.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
In the MacOSX specific code in raw-posix.c we use the define
LONG_LONG_MAX. This is actually a non-standard pre-C99 define;
switch to using the standard LLONG_MAX instead.
This apparently fixes a compilation failure with certain
compiler/OS versions (though it is unclear which).
Reported-by: Peter Bartoli <peter@bartoli.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The current version of raw-posix always uses ioctl(FS_IOC_FIEMAP) if
FIEMAP is available; lseek with SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA are not even
compiled in in this case. However, there may be implementations which
support the latter but not the former (e.g., NFSv4.2) as well as vice
versa.
To cover both cases, try FIEMAP first (as this will return -ENOTSUP if
not supported instead of returning a failsafe value (everything
allocated as a single extent)) and if that does not work, fall back to
SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Instead of having unlink() calls in the generic block layer, where we
aren't even guarateed to have a file name, move them to those block
drivers that are actually used and that always have a filename. Gets us
rid of some #ifdefs as well.
The patch also converts bs->is_temporary to a new BDRV_O_TEMPORARY open
flag so that it is inherited in the protocol layer and the raw-posix and
raw-win32 drivers can unlink the file.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The hdev_create() implementation in block/raw-posix.c is used by the
"host_device", "host_cdrom" and "host_floppy" protocol block drivers
together. Thus, any of the associated prefixes may occur and exactly one
should should be stripped, if it does (thus,
"host_device:host_cdrom:/dev/cdrom" is not shortened to "/dev/cdrom").
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The "host_cdrom" protocol drivers should strip the "host_cdrom:" prefix
from filenames if present.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The "host_floppy" protocol driver should strip the "host_floppy:" prefix
from filenames if present.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The "host_device" protocol driver should strip the "host_device:" prefix
from filenames if present.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The bdrv_create() implementation of the block/raw-posix "file" protocol
driver should strip the "file:" prefix from filenames if present.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The "file" protocol driver should strip the "file:" prefix from
filenames if present.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
error_is_set(&var) is the same as var != NULL, but it takes
whole-program analysis to figure that out. Unnecessarily hard for
optimizers, static checkers, and human readers. Dumb it down to
obvious.
Gets rid of several dozen Coverity false positives.
Note that the obvious form is already used in many places.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Add a bs->request_alignment field that contains the required
offset/length alignment for I/O requests and fill it in the raw block
drivers. Use ioctls if possible, else see what alignment it takes for
O_DIRECT to succeed.
While at it, also expose the memory alignment requirements, which may be
(and in practice are) different from the disk alignment requirements.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
This is a boiler-plate _nofail variant of qemu_opts_create. Remove and
use error_abort in call sites.
null/0 arguments needs to be added for the id and fail_if_exists fields
in affected callsites due to argument inconsistency between the normal and
no_fail variants.
Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
The code is similar to the implementation of discard and write_zeroes
with UNMAP. However, failure must be propagated up to block.c.
The stale page cache problem can be reproduced as follows:
# modprobe scsi-debug lbpws=1 lbprz=1
# ./qemu-io /dev/sdXX
qemu-io> write -P 0xcc 0 2M
qemu-io> write -z 0 1M
qemu-io> read -P 0x00 0 512
Pattern verification failed at offset 0, 512 bytes
qemu-io> read -v 0 512
00000000: cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc ................
...
# ./qemu-io --cache=none /dev/sdXX
qemu-io> write -P 0xcc 0 2M
qemu-io> write -z 0 1M
qemu-io> read -P 0x00 0 512
qemu-io> read -v 0 512
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
...
And similarly with discard instead of "write -z".
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
See the next commit for the description of the Linux kernel problem
that is worked around in raw_open_common.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Writing zeroes to a file can be done by punching a hole if
MAY_UNMAP is set.
Note that in this case ENOTSUP is not ignored, but makes
the block layer fall back to the generic implementation.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Similar to write_zeroes, let the generic code receive a ENOTSUP for
discard operations. Since bdrv_discard has advisory semantics,
we can just swallow the error.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
If backing file doesn't exist, the error message is confusing and
misleading:
$ qemu /tmp/a.qcow2
qemu: could not open disk image /tmp/a.qcow2: Could not open file: No
such file or directory
But...
$ ls /tmp/a.qcow2
/tmp/a.qcow2
$ qemu-img info /tmp/a.qcow2
image: /tmp/a.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
disk size: 196K
cluster_size: 65536
backing file: /tmp/b.qcow2
Because...
$ ls /tmp/b.qcow2
ls: cannot access /tmp/b.qcow2: No such file or directory
This is not intuitive. It's better to have the missing file's name in
the error message. With this patch:
$ qemu-io -c 'read 0 512' /tmp/a.qcow2
qemu-io: can't open device /tmp/a.qcow2: Could not open backing
file: Could not open '/stor/vm/arch.raw': No such file or directory
no file open, try 'help open'
Which is a little bit better.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The below patch is needed to compile qemu trunk on FreeBSD with gcc48,
clang will fail.... ;). Host x84_64-freebsd.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Tobler <andreast@FreeBSD.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The block layer generally keeps the size of an image cached in
bs->total_sectors so that it doesn't have to perform expensive
operations to get the size whenever it needs it.
This doesn't work however when using a backend that can change its size
without qemu being aware of it, i.e. passthrough of removable media like
CD-ROMs or floppy disks. For this reason, the caching is disabled when a
removable device is used.
It is obvious that checking whether the _guest_ device has removable
media isn't the right thing to do when we want to know whether the size
of the host backend can change. To make things worse, non-top-level
BlockDriverStates never have any device attached, which makes qemu
assume they are removable, so drv->bdrv_getlength() is always called on
the protocol layer. In the case of raw-posix, this causes unnecessary
lseek() system calls, which turned out to be rather expensive.
This patch completely changes the logic and disables bs->total_sectors
caching only for certain block driver types, for which a size change is
expected: host_cdrom and host_floppy on POSIX, host_device on win32; also
the raw format in case it sits on top of one of these protocols, but in
the common case the nested bdrv_getlength() call on the protocol driver
will use the cache again and avoid an expensive drv->bdrv_getlength()
call.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Make use of the error parameter in the opening and creating functions in
block/raw-posix.c.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Some drivers will have driver specifics options but no filename.
This new bool allow the block layer to treat them correctly.
The .bdrv_needs_filename is set in drivers not having .bdrv_parse_filename and
not having .bdrv_open.
The first exception to this rule will be the quorum driver.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Canet <benoit@irqsave.net>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Add an Error ** parameter to BlockDriver.bdrv_open and
BlockDriver.bdrv_file_open to allow more specific error messages.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
