Add support for taking and passing forward job creation flags.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180906130225.5118-3-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Add support for taking and passing forward job creation flags.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180906130225.5118-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The sslverify setting is supposed to turn off all TLS certificate
checks in libcurl. However because of the way we use it, it only
turns off peer certificate authenticity checks
(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER). This patch makes it also turn off the check
that the server name in the certificate is the same as the server
you're connecting to (CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST).
We can use Google's server at 8.8.8.8 which happens to have a bad TLS
certificate to demonstrate this:
$ ./qemu-img create -q -f qcow2 -b 'json: { "file.sslverify": "off", "file.driver": "https", "file.url": "https://8.8.8.8/foo" }' /var/tmp/file.qcow2
qemu-img: /var/tmp/file.qcow2: CURL: Error opening file: SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name '8.8.8.8'
Could not open backing image to determine size.
With this patch applied, qemu-img connects to the server regardless of
the bad certificate:
$ ./qemu-img create -q -f qcow2 -b 'json: { "file.sslverify": "off", "file.driver": "https", "file.url": "https://8.8.8.8/foo" }' /var/tmp/file.qcow2
qemu-img: /var/tmp/file.qcow2: CURL: Error opening file: The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
(The 404 error is expected because 8.8.8.8 is not actually serving a
file called "/foo".)
Of course the default (without sslverify=off) remains to always check
the certificate:
$ ./qemu-img create -q -f qcow2 -b 'json: { "file.driver": "https", "file.url": "https://8.8.8.8/foo" }' /var/tmp/file.qcow2
qemu-img: /var/tmp/file.qcow2: CURL: Error opening file: SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name '8.8.8.8'
Could not open backing image to determine size.
Further information about the two settings is available here:
https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER.htmlhttps://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST.html
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180914095622.19698-1-rjones@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
When we converted rbd to get rid of the older key/value-centric
encoding format, we broke compatibility with image files with backing
file strings encoded in the old format.
This leaves a bit of an ugly conundrum, and a hacky solution.
If the initial attempt to parse the "proper" options fails, it assumes
that we may have an older key/value encoded filename. Fall back to
attempting to parse the filename, and extract the required options from
it. If that fails, pass along the original error message.
We do not support mixed modern usage alongside legacy keyvalue pair
usage.
A deprecation warning has been added, although care should be taken
when actually deprecating since the impact is not limited to
commandline or qapi usage, but also opening existing images.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Message-id: 15b332e5432ad069441f7275a46080f465d789a0.1536704901.git.jcody@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Code movement to pull the conversion from Qdict to BlockdevOptionsRbd
into a helper function.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Message-id: 5b49a980f2cde6610ab1df41bb0277d00b5db893.1536704901.git.jcody@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Rename opaque_job to job to be consistent with other job implementations.
Rename 'job', the BackupBlockJob object, to 's' to also be consistent.
Suggested-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180830015734.19765-8-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Utilize the job_exit shim by not calling job_defer_to_main_loop, and
where applicable, converting the deferred callback into the job_exit
callback.
This converts backup, stream, create, and the unit tests all at once.
Most of these jobs do not see any changes to the order in which they
clean up their resources, except the test-blockjob-txn test, which
now puts down its bs before job_completed is called.
This is safe for the same reason the reordering in the mirror job is
safe, because job_completed no longer runs under two locks, making
the unref safe even if it causes a flush.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180830015734.19765-7-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Change the manual deferment to mirror_exit into the implicit
callback to job_exit and the mirror_exit callback.
This does change the order of some bdrv_unref calls and job_completed,
but thanks to the new context in which we call .exit, this is safe to
defer the possible flushing of any nodes to the job_finalize_single
cleanup stage.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180830015734.19765-6-jsnow@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Change the manual deferment to commit_complete into the implicit
callback to job_exit, renaming commit_complete to commit_exit.
This conversion does change the timing of when job_completed is
called to after the bdrv_replace_node and bdrv_unref calls, which
could have implications for bjob->blk which will now be put down
after this cleanup.
Kevin highlights that we did not take any permissions for that backend
at job creation time, so it is safe to reorder these operations.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180830015734.19765-5-jsnow@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Jobs presently use both an Error object in the case of the create job,
and char strings in the case of generic errors elsewhere.
Unify the two paths as just j->err, and remove the extra argument from
job_completed. The integer error code for job_completed is kept for now,
to be removed shortly in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180830015734.19765-3-jsnow@redhat.com
[mreitz: Dropped a superfluous g_strdup()]
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Presently we codify the entry point for a job as the "start" callback,
but a more apt name would be "run" to clarify the idea that when this
function returns we consider the job to have "finished," except for
any cleanup which occurs in separate callbacks later.
As part of this clarification, change the signature to include an error
object and a return code. The error ptr is not yet used, and the return
code while captured, will be overwritten by actions in the job_completed
function.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180830015734.19765-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The generated qapi_event_send_FOO() take an Error ** argument. They
can't actually fail, because all they do with the argument is passing it
to functions that can't fail: the QObject output visitor, and the
@qmp_emit callback, which is either monitor_qapi_event_queue() or
event_test_emit().
Drop the argument, and pass &error_abort to the QObject output visitor
and @qmp_emit instead.
Suggested-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180815133747.25032-4-peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Commit message rewritten, update to qapi-code-gen.txt corrected]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
.bdrv_close handler is optional after previous commit, no needs to keep
empty functions more.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
blockdev-mirror with the same node for source and target segfaults
today: A node is in its own backing chain, so mirror_start_job() decides
that this is an active commit. When adding the intermediate nodes with
block_job_add_bdrv(), it starts the iteration through the subchain with
the backing file of source, though, so it never reaches target and
instead runs into NULL at the base.
While we could fix that by starting with source itself, there is no
point in allowing mirroring a node into itself and I wouldn't be
surprised if this caused more problems later.
So just check for this scenario and error out.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This reinstates commit b008326744,
which was temporarily reverted for the 3.0 release so that libvirt gets
some extra time to update their command lines.
The -drive option serial was deprecated in QEMU 2.10. It's time to
remove it.
Tests need to be updated to set the serial number with -global instead
of using the -drive option.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Format drivers such as qcow2 don't allow sharing the same image between
two QEMU instances in order to prevent image corruptions, because of
metadata cache. LUKS driver don't modify metadata except for when
creating image, so it is safe to relax the permission. This makes
share-rw=on property work on virtual devices.
Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Commit 6fccbb475b fixed a bug caused by
QEMU attempting to remove a throttle group member with no pending
requests but an active timer set. This was the result of a previous
bdrv_drained_begin() call processing the throttled requests but
leaving the timer untouched.
Although the commit does solve the problem, the situation shouldn't
happen in the first place. If we try to drain a throttle group member
which has a timer set, we should cancel the timer instead of ignoring
it.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
In the throttling code after an I/O request has been completed the
next one is selected from a different member using a round-robin
algorithm. This ensures that all members get a chance to finish their
pending I/O requests.
However, if a group member has its I/O limits disabled (because it's
being drained) then we should always give it priority in order to have
all its pending requests finished as soon as possible.
If we don't do this we could have a member in the process of being
drained waiting for the throttled requests of other members, for which
the I/O limits still apply.
This can have additional consequences: if we're running in qtest mode
(with QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL) then timers can only fire if we advance the
clock manually, so attempting to drain a block device can hang QEMU in
the BDRV_POLL_WHILE() loop at the end of bdrv_do_drained_begin().
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
For BlockBackends that are skipped in query-blockstats, we would leak
info since commit 567dcb31. Allocate info only later to avoid the memory
leak.
Fixes: CID 1394727
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
bdrv_io_plug/bdrv_io_unplug take care of keeping a nesting count,
so change s->plugged to just a bool.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180813144320.12382-2-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
It is wrong to leave this field as 1, as nvme_close() called in the
error handling code in nvme_file_open() will use it and try to free
s->queues again.
Another problem is the cleaning ups are duplicated between the fail*
labels of nvme_init() and nvme_file_open(), which calls nvme_close().
A third problem is nvme_close() misses g_free() and
event_notifier_cleanup().
Fix all of them.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180712025420.4932-1-famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Consistent with query-block, query-blockstats should not only include
named BlockBackends, but also those that are anonymous, but belong to a
device model.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Like for query-block, the client needs to identify which BlockBackend
the returned data is for. Anonymous BlockBackends are identified by the
device model they are attached to. Add a 'qdev' field that contains the
qdev ID or QOM path of the attached device model.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
The BLKDISCARD ioctl doesn't guarantee that the discarded blocks read as
all-zero afterwards, so don't try to abuse it for zero writing. We try
to only use this if BLKDISCARDZEROES tells us that it is safe, but this
is unreliable on older kernels and a constant 0 in newer kernels. In
other words, this code path is never actually used with newer kernels,
so we don't even try to unmap while writing zeros.
This patch removes the abuse of discard for writing zeroes from
file-posix and instead adds a new function that uses interfaces that are
actually meant to deallocate and zero out at the same time. Only if
those fail, it falls back to zeroing out without unmap. We never fall
back to a discard operation any more that may or may not result in
zeros.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Since 42a3e1ab36 qemu asserts when using the
vvfat driver:
git clone git://qemu.org/qemu.git
cd qemu
./configure --target-list=ppc-softmmu --enable-debug
make -j8
mkdir foo
touch foo/hello
./ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc -M prep --nographic --monitor null \
-hda fat:rw:./foo
"Ctrl-C"
qemu-system-ppc: block.c:3368: bdrv_close_all: Assertion \
`((&all_bdrv_states)->tqh_first == ((void *)0))' failed.
This is because we reference bs twice in qcow_co_create(..) one time in
bdrv_open_blockdev_ref(..) and in blk_insert_bs(..) but we unref it only once
in blk_unref which leads to the reference leak.
Note that I didn't tested much QCOW after this change as I don't use it much.
Signed-off-by: KONRAD Frederic <frederic.konrad@adacore.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
qstring_from_substr() takes the index of the substring's first and
last character. qstring_from_substr(s, 0, SIZE_MAX) denotes an empty
substring. Awkward.
Shift the end index one to the right. This simplifies both
qstring_from_substr() and its callers.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180727062204.10401-3-armbru@redhat.com>
In ed6e2161 ("linux-aio: properly bubble up errors from initialzation"),
I only added a bdrv_attach_aio_context callback for the bdrv_file
driver. There are several other drivers that use the shared
aio_plug callback, though, and they will trip the assertion added to
aio_get_linux_aio because they did not call aio_setup_linux_aio first.
Add the appropriate callback definition to the affected driver
definitions.
Fixes: ed6e2161 ("linux-aio: properly bubble up errors from initialization")
Reported-by: Farhan Ali <alifm@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <naravamudan@digitalocean.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180718211256.29774-1-naravamudan@digitalocean.com
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
It's annoying to see this debug message every time you use vvfat.
Disable it with the DLOG() macro by default, as it is done with the
other debug messages in this file.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Throttle groups consist of members sharing one throttling state
(including bps/iops limits). Round-robin scheduling is used to ensure
fairness. If a group member already has a timer pending then other
groups members do not schedule their own timers. The next group member
will have its turn when the existing timer expires.
A hang may occur when a group member leaves while it had a timer
scheduled. Although the code carefully removes the group member from
the round-robin list, it does not schedule the next member. Therefore
remaining members continue to wait for the removed member's timer to
expire.
This patch schedules the next request if a timer is pending.
Unfortunately the actual bug is a race condition that I've been unable
to capture in a test case.
Sometimes drive2 hangs when drive1 is removed from the throttling group:
$ qemu ... -drive if=none,id=drive1,cache=none,format=qcow2,file=data1.qcow2,iops=100,group=foo \
-device virtio-blk-pci,id=virtio-blk-pci0,drive=drive1 \
-drive if=none,id=drive2,cache=none,format=qcow2,file=data2.qcow2,iops=10,group=foo \
-device virtio-blk-pci,id=virtio-blk-pci1,drive=drive2
(guest-console1)# fio -filename /dev/vda 4k-seq-read.job
(guest-console2)# fio -filename /dev/vdb 4k-seq-read.job
(qmp) {"execute": "block_set_io_throttle", "arguments": {"device": "drive1","bps": 0,"bps_rd": 0,"bps_wr": 0,"iops": 0,"iops_rd": 0,"iops_wr": 0}}
Reported-by: Nini Gu <ngu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180704145410.794-1-stefanha@redhat.com
RHBZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535914
Cc: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Adjust each caller of raw_open_common to specify if they are expecting
host and character devices or not. Tighten expectations of file types upon
open in the common code and refuse types that are not expected.
This has two effects:
(1) Character and block devices are now considered deprecated for the
'file' driver, which expects only S_IFREG, and
(2) no file-posix driver (file, host_cdrom, or host_device) can open
directories now.
I don't think there's a legitimate reason to open directories as if
they were files. This prevents QEMU from opening and attempting to probe
a directory inode, which can break in exciting ways. One of those ways
is lseek on ext4/xfs, which will return 0x7fffffffffffffff as the file
size instead of EISDIR. This can coax QEMU into responding with a
confusing "file too big" instead of "Hey, that's not a file".
See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1739304/
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Truncation is the last to convert from open coded req handling to
reusing helpers. This time the permission check in prepare has to adapt
to the new caller: it checks a different permission bit, and doesn't
trigger the before write notifier.
Also, truncation should always trigger a bs->total_sectors update and in
turn call parent resize_cb. Update the condition in finish helper, too.
It's intended to do a duplicated bs->read_only check before calling
bdrv_co_write_req_prepare() so that we can be more informative with the
error message, as bdrv_co_write_req_prepare() doesn't have Error
parameter.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
If we are growing the image and potentially using preallocation for the
new area, we need to make sure that no write requests are made to the
"preallocated" area which is [@old_size, @offset), not
[@offset, offset * 2 - @old_size).
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This brings the request handling logic inline with write and discard,
fixing write_gen, resize_cb, dirty bitmaps and image size refreshing.
The last of these issues broke iotest case 222, which is now fixed.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reuse the new bdrv_co_write_req_prepare/finish helpers. The variation
here is that discard requests don't affect bs->wr_highest_offset, and it
cannot extend the image.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Two problems exist when a write request that enlarges the image (i.e.
write beyond EOF) finishes:
1) parent is not notified about size change;
2) dirty bitmap is not resized although we try to set the dirty bits;
Fix them just like how bdrv_co_truncate works.
Reported-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
As a mechanical refactoring patch, this is the first step towards
unified and more correct write code paths. This is helpful because
multiple BlockDriverState fields need to be updated after modifying
image data, and it's hard to maintain in multiple places such as copy
offload, discard and truncate.
Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This matches the types used for bytes in the rest parts of block layer.
In the case of bdrv_co_truncate, new_bytes can be the image size which
probably doesn't fit in a 32 bit int.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Other I/O functions are already using a BdrvChild pointer in the API, so
make discard do the same. It makes it possible to initiate the same
permission checks before doing I/O, and much easier to share the
helper functions for this, which will be added and used by write,
truncate and copy range paths.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
A few trace points that can help reveal what is happening in a copy
offloading I/O path.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
With in one module, trace points usually have a common prefix named
after the module name. paio_submit and paio_submit_co are the only two
trace points so far in the two file protocol drivers. As we are adding
more, having a common prefix here is better so that trace points can be
enabled with a glob. Rename them.
Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This reverts commit b008326744.
Hold off removing this for one more QEMU release (current libvirt
release still uses it.)
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The sector size needs to be large enough to accommodate the data
structures for the log super block and log write entries. This was
previously not properly checked, which made it possible to cause
QEMU to badly misbehave.
Signed-off-by: Ari Sundholm <ari@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Fleecing scheme works as follows: we want a kind of temporary snapshot
of active drive A. We create temporary image B, with B->backing = A.
Then we start backup(sync=none) from A to B. From this point, B reads
as point-in-time snapshot of A (A continues to be active drive,
accepting guest IO).
This scheme needs some additional synchronization between reads from B
and backup COW operations, otherwise, the following situation is
theoretically possible:
(assume B is qcow2, client is NBD client, reading from B)
1. client starts reading and take qcow2 mutex in qcow2_co_preadv, and
goes up to l2 table loading (assume cache miss)
2) guest write => backup COW => qcow2 write =>
try to take qcow2 mutex => waiting
3. l2 table loaded, we see that cluster is UNALLOCATED, go to
"case QCOW2_CLUSTER_UNALLOCATED" and unlock mutex before
bdrv_co_preadv(bs->backing, ...)
4) aha, mutex unlocked, backup COW continues, and we finally finish
guest write and change cluster in our active disk A
5. actually, do bdrv_co_preadv(bs->backing, ...) and read
_new updated_ data.
To avoid this, let's make backup writes serializing, to not intersect
with reads from B.
Note: we expand range of handled cases from (sync=none and
B->backing = A) to just (A in backing chain of B), to finally allow
safe reading from B during backup for all cases when A in backing chain
of B, i.e. B formally looks like point-in-time snapshot of A.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>