bs->file and bs->backing are a kind of duplication of part of
bs->children. But very useful diplication, so let's not drop them at
all:)
We should manage bs->file and bs->backing in same place, where we
manage bs->children, to keep them in sync.
Moreover, generic io paths are unprepared to BdrvChild without a bs, so
it's double good to clear bs->file / bs->backing when we detach the
child.
Detach is simple: if we detach bs->file or bs->backing child, just
set corresponding field to NULL.
Attach is a bit more complicated. But we still can precisely detect
should we set one of bs->file / bs->backing or not:
- if role is BDRV_CHILD_COW, we definitely deal with bs->backing
- else, if role is BDRV_CHILD_FILTERED (it must be also
BDRV_CHILD_PRIMARY), it's a filtered child. Use
bs->drv->filtered_child_is_backing to chose the pointer field to
modify.
- else, if role is BDRV_CHILD_PRIMARY, we deal with bs->file
- in all other cases, it's neither bs->backing nor bs->file. It's some
other child and we shouldn't care
OK. This change brings one more good thing: we can (and should) get rid
of all indirect pointers in the block-graph-change transactions:
bdrv_attach_child_common() stores BdrvChild** into transaction to clear
it on abort.
bdrv_attach_child_common() has two callers: bdrv_attach_child_noperm()
just pass-through this feature, bdrv_root_attach_child() doesn't need
the feature.
Look at bdrv_attach_child_noperm() callers:
- bdrv_attach_child() doesn't need the feature
- bdrv_set_file_or_backing_noperm() uses the feature to manage
bs->file and bs->backing, we don't want it anymore
- bdrv_append() uses the feature to manage bs->backing, again we
don't want it anymore
So, we should drop this stuff! Great!
We could probably keep BdrvChild** argument to keep the int return
value, but it seems not worth the complexity.
Finally, we now set .file / .backing automatically in generic code and
want to restring setting them by hand outside of .attach/.detach.
So, this patch cleanups all remaining places where they were set.
To find such places I use:
git grep '\->file ='
git grep '\->backing ='
git grep '&.*\<backing\>'
git grep '&.*\<file\>'
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220726201134.924743-14-vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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