The previous patch fixed the inherits_from pointer after block-stream,
and this one does the same for block-commit.
When block-commit finishes and the 'top' node is not the topmost one
from the backing chain then all nodes above 'base' up to and including
'top' are removed from the chain.
The bdrv_drop_intermediate() call converts a chain like this one:
base <- intermediate <- top <- active
into this one:
base <- active
In a simple scenario each backing file from the first chain has the
inherits_from attribute pointing to its parent. This means that
reopening 'active' will recursively reopen all its children, whose
options can be changed in the process.
However after the 'block-commit' call base.inherits_from is NULL and
the chain is broken, so 'base' does not inherit from 'active' and will
not be reopened automatically:
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 hd0.qcow2 1M
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b hd0.qcow2 hd1.qcow2
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b hd1.qcow2 hd2.qcow2
$ $QEMU -drive if=none,file=hd2.qcow2
{ 'execute': 'block-commit',
'arguments': {
'device': 'none0',
'top': 'hd1.qcow2' } }
{ 'execute': 'human-monitor-command',
'arguments': {
'command-line':
'qemu-io none0 "reopen -o backing.l2-cache-size=2M"' } }
{ "return": "Cannot change the option 'backing.l2-cache-size'\r\n"}
This patch updates base.inherits_from in this scenario, and adds a
test case.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
When a BlockDriverState's child is opened (be it a backing file, the
protocol layer, or any other) inherits_from is set to point to the
parent node. Children opened separately and then attached to a parent
don't have this pointer set.
bdrv_reopen_queue_child() uses this to determine whether a node's
children must also be reopened inheriting the options from the parent
or not. If inherits_from points to the parent then the child is
reopened and its options can be changed, like in this example:
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 hd0.qcow2 1M
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 hd1.qcow2 1M
$ $QEMU -drive if=none,node-name=hd0,file=hd0.qcow2,\
backing.driver=qcow2,backing.file.filename=hd1.qcow2
(qemu) qemu-io hd0 "reopen -o backing.l2-cache-size=2M"
If the child does not inherit from the parent then it does not get
reopened and its options cannot be changed:
$ $QEMU -drive if=none,node-name=hd1,file=hd1.qcow2
-drive if=none,node-name=hd0,file=hd0.qcow2,backing=hd1
(qemu) qemu-io hd0 "reopen -o backing.l2-cache-size=2M"
Cannot change the option 'backing.l2-cache-size'
If a disk image has a chain of backing files then all of them are also
connected through their inherits_from pointers (i.e. it's possible to
walk the chain in reverse order from base to top).
However this is broken if the intermediate nodes are removed using
e.g. block-stream because the inherits_from pointer from the base node
becomes NULL:
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 hd0.qcow2 1M
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b hd0.qcow2 hd1.qcow2
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b hd1.qcow2 hd2.qcow2
$ $QEMU -drive if=none,file=hd2.qcow2
(qemu) qemu-io none0 "reopen -o backing.l2-cache-size=2M"
(qemu) block_stream none0 0 hd0.qcow2
(qemu) qemu-io none0 "reopen -o backing.l2-cache-size=2M"
Cannot change the option 'backing.l2-cache-size'
This patch updates the inherits_from pointer if the intermediate nodes
of a backing chain are removed using bdrv_set_backing_hd(), and adds a
test case for this scenario.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
