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In order to test the effects of artificial geometry constraints on operations like write zero or discard, we first need blkdebug to manage these actions. It also allows us to inject errors on those operations, just like we can for read/write/flush. We can also test the contract promised by the block layer; namely, if a device has specified limits on alignment or maximum size, then those limits must be obeyed (for now, the blkdebug driver merely inherits limits from whatever it is wrapping, but the next patch will further enhance it to allow specific limit overrides). This patch intentionally refuses to service requests smaller than the requested alignments; this is because an upcoming patch adds a qemu-iotest to prove that the block layer is correctly handling fragmentation, but the test only works if there is a way to tell the difference at artificial alignment boundaries when blkdebug is using a larger-than-default alignment. If we let the blkdebug layer always defer to the underlying layer, which potentially has a smaller granularity, the iotest will be thwarted. Tested by setting up an NBD server with export 'foo', then invoking: $ ./qemu-io qemu-io> open -o driver=blkdebug blkdebug::nbd://localhost:10809/foo qemu-io> d 0 15M qemu-io> w -z 0 15M Pre-patch, the server never sees the discard (it was silently eaten by the block layer); post-patch it is passed across the wire. Likewise, pre-patch the write is always passed with NBD_WRITE (with 15M of zeroes on the wire), while post-patch it can utilize NBD_WRITE_ZEROES (for less traffic). Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170429191419.30051-7-eblake@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Mac
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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