One performance problem of qcow2 during the initial image growth are
sequential writes that are not cluster aligned. In this case, when a first
requests requires to allocate a new cluster but writes only to the first
couple of sectors in that cluster, the rest of the cluster is zeroed - just
to be overwritten by the following second request that fills up the cluster.
Let's try to merge sequential write requests to the same cluster, so we can
avoid to write the zero padding to the disk in the first place.
As a nice side effect, also other formats take advantage of dealing with less
and larger requests.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Now that do have a nicer interface to work against we can add Linux native
AIO support. It's an extremly thing layer just setting up an iocb for
the io_submit system call in the submission path, and registering an
eventfd with the qemu poll handler to do complete the iocbs directly
from there.
This started out based on Anthony's earlier AIO patch, but after
estimated 42,000 rewrites and just as many build system changes
there's not much left of it.
To enable native kernel aio use the aio=native sub-command on the
drive command line. I have also added an option to qemu-io to
test the aio support without needing a guest.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The VM state offset is a concept internal to the image format. Replace
the old bdrv_{get,put}_buffer method that require an index into the
image file that is constructed from the VM state offset and an offset
into the vmstate with the bdrv_{load,save}_vmstate that just take an
offset into the VM state.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Commit 6a7ad299 ("Call qemu_bh_delete at bdrv_aio_bh_cb") deletes emulated
aio bottom halves to prevent endless accumulation. However, it leaves a
stale ->bh pointer, which is then waited on when the aio is reused.
Zeroing the pointer fixes the issue, allowing vmdk format images to be used.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Fix missing strnlen (a GNU extension) problems by using qemu_strnlen
used for user emulators also for system emulators.
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because
qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example filename scsi:0, is
interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi".
This patch allows user to espace colon characters. For example the above
filename can now be expressed either as 'scsi\:0' or as file:scsi:0
anything following the "file:" tag is interpreted verbatin. However if "file:"
tag is omitted then any colon characters in the string must be escaped using
backslash.
Here are couple of examples:
scsi\:0\:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc
http\://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb
file:scsi:0:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc
file:http://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb
Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Section 10.8.25 ("START/STOP UNIT Command") of SFF-8020i states that
if the device is locked we should refuse to eject if the device is
locked.
ASC_MEDIA_REMOVAL_PREVENTED is the appropriate return in this case.
In order to stop itself from ejecting the media it is running from,
Fedora's installer (anaconda) requires the CDROMEJECT ioctl() to fail
if the drive has been previously locked.
See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/501412
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Also replave qemu_bh_cancel with qemu_bh_delete in bdrv_aio_cancel_em.
Otherwise the bh will live forever in the bh list.
Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Add a bdrv_probe_device method to all BlockDriver instances implementing
host devices to move matching of host device types into the actual drivers.
For now we keep exacly the old matching behaviour based on the devices names,
although we really should have better detetion methods based on device
information in the future.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Instead of declaring one BlockDriver for all host devices declared one
for each type: a generic one for normal disk devices, a Linux floppy
driver and a CDROM driver for Linux and FreeBSD. This gets rid of a lot
of messy ifdefs and switching based on the type in the various removal
device methods.
block.c grows a new method to find the correct host device driver based
on OS-sepcific criteria, which will later into the actual drivers in a
later patch in this series.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Now that we have a separate aio pool structure we can remove those
aio pool details from BlockDriver.
Every driver supporting AIO now needs to declare a static AIOPool
with the aiocb size and the cancellation method. This cleans up the
current code considerably and will make it cleaner and more obvious
to support two different aio implementations behind a single
BlockDriver.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch converts the remaining users of bdrv_create2 to bdrv_create and
removes the now unused function.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Now we can make use of the newly introduced option structures. Instead of
having bdrv_create carry more and more parameters (which are format specific in
most cases), just pass a option structure as defined by the driver itself.
bdrv_create2() contains an emulation of the old interface to simplify the
transition.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This patch makes the range checks for block requests more strict: It fixes a
potential integer overflow and checks for negative offsets. Also, it adds the
check for compressed writes.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
this patch adds a buffer_alignment field to BlockDriverState and
implements a qemu_blockalign function that uses that field to allocate a
memory aligned buffer to be used by the block driver.
buffer_alignment is initialized to 512 but each block driver can set
a different value (at the moment none of them do).
This patch modifies ide.c, block-qcow.c, block-qcow2.c and block.c to
use qemu_blockalign instead of qemu_memalign.
There is only one place left that still uses qemu_memalign to allocate
buffers used by block drivers that is posix-aio-compat:handle_aiocb_rw
because it is not possible to get the BlockDriverState from that
function. However I think it is not important because posix-aio-compat
already deals with driver specific code so it is supposed to know its
own needs.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Introduce a new bdrv_check function pointer for block drivers. Modify qcow2 to
return an error status in check_refcounts(), so it can implement bdrv_check.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This ties up the preadv/pwritev syscalls to qemu if they are declared in
unistd.h. This is the case currently on at least NetBSD and OpenBSD and
will hopefully soon be the case on Linux.
Thanks to Blue Swirl and Gerd Hoffmann for the configure autodetection
of preadv/pwritev.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Make all AIO requests vectored and defer linearization until the actual
I/O thread. This prepares for using native preadv/pwritev.
Also enables asynchronous direct I/O by handling that case in the I/O thread.
Qcow and qcow2 propably want to be adopted to directly deal with multi-segment
requests, but that can be implemented later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Always use the vectored APIs to reduce code churn once we switch the BlockDriver
API to be vectored.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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We now enforce that you cannot write beyond the end of a non-growable file.
qcow2 files are not growable but we rely on them being growable to do
savevm/loadvm. Temporarily allow them to be growable by introducing a new
API specifically for savevm read/write operations.
Reported-by: malc
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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All the bdrv_ helpers should check for bs->drv being zero as that means
there is no backend image open. bdrv_flush fails to perform that check
and can thus cause NULL pointer dereferences.
Found using qemu-io.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Remove code dealing with negative sector numbers for byte access in
bdrv_check_request as sector numbers can't ever be negative.
Previously we supported negative sector counts for byte access, but
never sector numbers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Added a backing_format field to BlockDriverState.
Added bdrv_create2 and drv->bdrv_create2 to create an image with
a known backing file format.
Upon bdrv_open2 if backing format is known use it, instead of
probing the (backing) image.
Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Okay, I started looking into how to handle scsi-generic I/O in the
new world order.
I think the best is to use the SG_IO ioctl instead of the read/write
interface as that allows us to support scsi passthrough on disk/cdrom
devices, too. See Hannes patch on the kvm list from August for an
example.
Now that we always do ioctls we don't need another abstraction than
bdrv_ioctl for the synchronous requests for now, and for asynchronous
requests I've added a aio_ioctl abstraction keeping it simple.
Long-term we might want to move the ops to a higher-level abstraction
and let the low-level code fill out the request header, but I'm lazy
enough to leave that to the people trying to support scsi-passthrough
on a non-Linux OS.
Tested lightly by issuing various sg_ commands from sg3-utils in a guest
to a host CDROM device.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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If a bounced vectored aio fails immediately (the inner aio submission
returning NULL) then the bounce handler erronously returns an aio
request which will never be completed (and which crashes when cancelled).
Fix by detecting that the inner request has failed and propagating the
error.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Now that we have a dedicated acb pool for vector translation acbs, we can
store the vector translation state in the acbs instead of in an external
structure.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This allows us to remove a hack in the vectored aio cancellation code.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Move the AIOCB allocation code to use a dedicate structure, AIOPool. AIOCB
specific information, such as the AIOCB size and cancellation routine, is
moved into the pool.
At present, there is exactly one pool per block format driver, maintaining
the status quo.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Now that scsi generic no longer uses bdrv_pread() and bdrv_pwrite(), we can
drop the corresponding internal APIs, which overlap bdrv_read()/bdrv_write()
and, being byte oriented, are unnatural for a block device.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Add an internal API for the generic block layer to send scsi generic commands
to block format driver. This means block format drivers no longer need
to consider overloaded nb_sectors parameters.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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When a scsi device is backed by a scsi generic device instead of an
ordinary host block device, the block API is abused in a couple of annoying
ways:
- nb_sectors is negative, and specifies a byte count instead of a sector count
- offset is ignored, since scsi-generic is essentially a packet protocol
This overloading makes hacking the block layer difficult. Remove it by
introducing a new explicit API for scsi-generic devices. The new API
is still backed by the old implementation, but at least the users are
insulated.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This series is broken by design as it requires expensive IO operations at
open time causing very long delays when starting a virtual machine for the
first time.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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This series is broken by design as it requires expensive IO operations at
open time causing very long delays when starting a virtual machine for the
first time.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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We want to globally define WIN_LEAN_AND_MEAN and WINVER to particular values so
let's do it in OS_CFLAGS.
Then, we can pepper in windows.h includes where using #includes that require it.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Refactor the monitor API and prepare it for decoupled terminals:
term_print functions are renamed to monitor_* and all monitor services
gain a new parameter (mon) that will once refer to the monitor instance
the output is supposed to appear on. However, the argument remains
unused for now. All monitor command callbacks are also extended by a mon
parameter so that command handlers are able to pass an appropriate
reference to monitor output services.
For the case that monitor outputs so far happen without clearly
identifiable context, the global variable cur_mon is introduced that
shall once provide a pointer either to the current active monitor (while
processing commands) or to the default one. On the mid or long term,
those use case will be obsoleted so that this variable can be removed
again.
Due to the broad usage of the monitor interface, this patch mostly deals
with converting users of the monitor API. A few of them are already
extended to pass 'mon' from the command handler further down to internal
functions that invoke monitor_printf.
At this chance, monitor-related prototypes are moved from console.h to
a new monitor.h. The same is done for the readline API.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Currently, waiting for the user to type in some password blocks the
whole VM because monitor_readline starts its own I/O loop. And this loop
also screws up reading passwords from virtual console.
Patch below fixes the shortcomings by using normal I/O processing also
for waiting on a password. To keep to modal property for the monitor
terminal, the command handler is temporarily replaced by a password
handler and a callback infrastructure is established to process the
result before switching back to command mode.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Reading the passwords for encrypted hard disks during early startup is
broken (I guess for quiet a while now):
- No monitor terminal is ready for input at this point
- Forcing all mux'ed terminals into monitor mode can confuse other
users of that channels
To overcome these issues and to lay the ground for a clean decoupling of
monitor terminals, this patch changes the initial password inquiry as
follows:
- Prevent autostart if there is some encrypted disk
- Once the user tries to resume the VM, prompt for all missing
passwords
- Only resume if all passwords were accepted
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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If the backing file is encrypted, 'info block' currently does not report
the disk as encrypted. Fix this by using the standard API to check disk
encryption mode. Moreover, switch to a canonical output format.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Introduce bdrv_get_encrypted_filename service to allow more informative
password prompting.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Make bdrv_iterate more useful by passing the BlockDriverState to the
iterator instead of the device name.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Make sure that we always delete temporary disk images on error, remove
obsolete malloc error checks and return proper error codes.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Introduce a growable flag that's set by bdrv_file_open(). Block devices should
never be growable, only files that are being used by block devices.
I went through Fabrice's early comments about the patch that was first applied.
While I disagree with that patch, I also disagree with Fabrice's suggestion.
There's no good reason to do the checks in the block drivers themselves. It
just increases the possibility that this bug could show up again. Since we're
calling bdrv_getlength() to determine the length, we're giving the block drivers
a chance to chime in and let us know what range is valid.
Basically, this patch makes the BlockDriver API guarantee that all requests are
within 0..bdrv_getlength() which to me seems like a Good Thing.
What do others think?
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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