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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2018-02-13 14:26:41 -0600
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2018-03-02 18:39:07 +0100
commit86a3d5c6889594b814d47a80e366aa4831676199 (patch)
tree09812e14ba4ee792f320f8ec4c882252c4cef063 /include/block/block.h
parent86f4c7e05b1c44dbe1b329a51f311f10aef6ff34 (diff)
downloadqemu-86a3d5c6889594b814d47a80e366aa4831676199.tar.gz
block: Add .bdrv_co_block_status() callback
We are gradually moving away from sector-based interfaces, towards byte-based. Now that the block layer exposes byte-based allocation, it's time to tackle the drivers. Add a new callback that operates on as small as byte boundaries. Subsequent patches will then update individual drivers, then finally remove .bdrv_co_get_block_status(). The new code also passes through the 'want_zero' hint, which will allow subsequent patches to further optimize callers that only care about how much of the image is allocated (want_zero is false), rather than full details about runs of zeroes and which offsets the allocation actually maps to (want_zero is true). As part of this effort, fix another part of the documentation: the claim in commit 4c41cb4 that BDRV_BLOCK_ALLOCATED is short for 'DATA || ZERO' is a lie at the block layer (see commit e88ae2264), even though it is how the bit is computed from the driver layer. After all, there are intentionally cases where we return ZERO but not ALLOCATED at the block layer, when we know that a read sees zero because the backing file is too short. Note that the driver interface is thus slightly different than the public interface with regards to which bits will be set, and what guarantees are provided on input. We also add an assertion that any driver using the new callback will make progress (the only time pnum will be 0 is if the block layer already handled an out-of-bounds request, or if there is an error); the old driver interface did not provide this guarantee, which could lead to some inf-loops in drastic corner-case failures. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/block/block.h')
-rw-r--r--include/block/block.h14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h
index 19b3ab9cb5..947e8876cd 100644
--- a/include/block/block.h
+++ b/include/block/block.h
@@ -115,19 +115,19 @@ typedef struct HDGeometry {
* BDRV_BLOCK_ZERO: offset reads as zero
* BDRV_BLOCK_OFFSET_VALID: an associated offset exists for accessing raw data
* BDRV_BLOCK_ALLOCATED: the content of the block is determined by this
- * layer (short for DATA || ZERO), set by block layer
- * BDRV_BLOCK_EOF: the returned pnum covers through end of file for this layer
+ * layer rather than any backing, set by block layer
+ * BDRV_BLOCK_EOF: the returned pnum covers through end of file for this
+ * layer, set by block layer
*
* Internal flag:
* BDRV_BLOCK_RAW: for use by passthrough drivers, such as raw, to request
* that the block layer recompute the answer from the returned
* BDS; must be accompanied by just BDRV_BLOCK_OFFSET_VALID.
*
- * If BDRV_BLOCK_OFFSET_VALID is set, bits 9-62 (BDRV_BLOCK_OFFSET_MASK) of
- * the return value (old interface) or the entire map parameter (new
- * interface) represent the offset in the returned BDS that is allocated for
- * the corresponding raw data. However, whether that offset actually
- * contains data also depends on BDRV_BLOCK_DATA, as follows:
+ * If BDRV_BLOCK_OFFSET_VALID is set, the map parameter represents the
+ * host offset within the returned BDS that is allocated for the
+ * corresponding raw guest data. However, whether that offset
+ * actually contains data also depends on BDRV_BLOCK_DATA, as follows:
*
* DATA ZERO OFFSET_VALID
* t t t sectors read as zero, returned file is zero at offset