This is nicer to do in the unified QMP interface that we have now,
because it lets us use the right terminology back at the user.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190716000117.25219-5-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
It is used to do transactional movement of the bitmap (which is
possible in conjunction with merge command). Transactional bitmap
movement is needed in scenarios with external snapshot, when we don't
want to leave copy of the bitmap in the base image.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190708220502.12977-3-jsnow@redhat.com
[Edited "since" version to 4.2 --js]
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Commit 0a6c86d024 returned these locks back to add/remove
functionality, to protect from intersection of persistent bitmap
related IO with other IO. But other bitmap-related functions called
here are unrelated to the problem, and there are no needs to keep these
calls inside critical sections.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190708220502.12977-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
With the "never" sync policy, we actually can utilize readonly bitmaps
now. Loosen the check at the QMP level, and tighten it based on
provided arguments down at the job creation level instead.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-19-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
We don't need or want a new sync mode for simple differences in
semantics. Create a new mode simply named "BITMAP" that is designed to
make use of the new Bitmap Sync Mode field.
Because the only bitmap sync mode is 'on-success', this adds no new
functionality to the backup job (yet). The old incremental backup mode
is maintained as a syntactic sugar for sync=bitmap, mode=on-success.
Add all of the plumbing necessary to support this new instruction.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-6-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-4-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Create a common core that comprises the actual meat of what the backup API
boundary needs to do, and then switch drive-backup to use it.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190709232550.10724-3-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
sysemu/sysemu.h is a rather unfocused dumping ground for stuff related
to the system-emulator. Evidence:
* It's included widely: in my "build everything" tree, changing
sysemu/sysemu.h still triggers a recompile of some 1100 out of 6600
objects (not counting tests and objects that don't depend on
qemu/osdep.h, down from 5400 due to the previous two commits).
* It pulls in more than a dozen additional headers.
Split stuff related to run state management into its own header
sysemu/runstate.h.
Touching sysemu/sysemu.h now recompiles some 850 objects. qemu/uuid.h
also drops from 1100 to 850, and qapi/qapi-types-run-state.h from 4400
to 4200. Touching new sysemu/runstate.h recompiles some 500 objects.
Since I'm touching MAINTAINERS to add sysemu/runstate.h anyway, also
add qemu/main-loop.h.
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190812052359.30071-30-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
[Unbreak OS-X build]
In my "build everything" tree, changing qemu/main-loop.h triggers a
recompile of some 5600 out of 6600 objects (not counting tests and
objects that don't depend on qemu/osdep.h). It includes block/aio.h,
which in turn includes qemu/event_notifier.h, qemu/notify.h,
qemu/processor.h, qemu/qsp.h, qemu/queue.h, qemu/thread-posix.h,
qemu/thread.h, qemu/timer.h, and a few more.
Include qemu/main-loop.h only where it's needed. Touching it now
recompiles only some 1700 objects. For block/aio.h and
qemu/event_notifier.h, these numbers drop from 5600 to 2800. For the
others, they shrink only slightly.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190812052359.30071-21-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
We forget to enable it for transaction .prepare, while it is already
enabled in do_drive_backup since commit a2d665c1bc
"blockdev: loosen restrictions on drive-backup source node"
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190618140804.59214-1-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Drop remaining users of bs->job:
1. assertions actually duplicated by assert(!bs->refcnt)
2. trace-point seems not enough reason to change stream_start to return
BlockJob pointer
3. Restricting creation of two jobs based on same bs is bad idea, as
3.1 Some jobs creates filters to be their main node, so, this check
don't actually prevent creating second job on same real node (which
will create another filter node) (but I hope it is restricted by
other mechanisms)
3.2 Even without bs->job we have two systems of permissions:
op-blockers and BLK_PERM
3.3 We may want to run several jobs on one node one day
And finally, drop bs->job pointer itself. Hurrah!
Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We are going to remove bs->job pointer. Drop it's usage in
blockdev_mark_auto_del: instead of looking at bs->job let's check all
jobs for references to bs.
Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
There are error messages which refer to an overlay node as the snapshot.
That is wrong, those are two different things.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190603202236.1342-3-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
in blockdev_backup_prepare, we check to make sure that the target is
associated with a compatible aio context. However, do_blockdev_backup is
called later and has some logic to move the target to a compatible
aio_context. The transaction version will fail certain commands
needlessly early as a result.
Allow blockdev_backup_prepare to simply call do_blockdev_backup, which
will ultimately decide if the contexts are compatible or not.
Note: the transaction version has always disallowed this operation since
its initial commit bd8baecd (2014), whereas the version of
qmp_blockdev_backup at the time, from commit c29c1dd312, tried to
enforce the aio_context switch instead. It's not clear, and I can't see
from the mailing list archives at the time, why the two functions take a
different approach. It wasn't until later in efd7556708 (2016) that the
standalone version tried to determine if it could set the context or
not.
Reported-by: aihua liang <aliang@redhat.com>
Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1683498
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190523170643.20794-2-jsnow@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Monitor commands can handle errors, so they can easily be converted to
using the safer bdrv_try_set_aio_context() function.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This adds a new parameter to blk_new() which requires its callers to
declare from which AioContext this BlockBackend is going to be used (or
the locks of which AioContext need to be taken anyway).
The given context is only stored and kept up to date when changing
AioContexts. Actually applying the stored AioContext to the root node
is saved for another commit.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
If the bitmap can't be used for whatever reason, we skip putting down
the reference. Fix that.
In practice, this means that if you attempt to gracefully exit QEMU
after a backup command being rejected, bdrv_close_all will fail and
tell you some unpleasant things via assert().
Reported-by: aihua liang <aliang@redhat.com>
Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1703916
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Add new optional parameter making possible to merge bitmaps from
different nodes. It is needed to maintain external snapshots during
incremental backup chain history.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190517152111.206494-2-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
We mandate that the source node must be a root node; but there's no reason
I am aware of that it needs to be restricted to such. In some cases, we need
to make sure that there's a medium present, but in the general case we can
allow the backup job itself to do the graph checking.
This patch helps improve the error message when you try to backup from
the same node more than once, which is reflected in the change to test
056.
For backups with bitmaps, it will also show a better error message that
the bitmap is in use instead of giving you something cryptic like "need
a root node."
Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1707303
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190521210053.8864-1-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Command line help explicitly requested by the user should be printed
to stdout, not stderr. We do elsewhere. Adjust -drive to match: use
qemu_printf() instead of error_printf(). Plain printf() would be
wrong because we need to print to the current monitor for "drive_add
... format=help".
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190417190641.26814-13-armbru@redhat.com>
There is no reason why the constraints we put on @replaces should be
limited to drive-mirror. Therefore, move the sanity checks from
qmp_drive_mirror() to blockdev_mirror_common() so they apply to
blockdev-mirror as well.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This command allows reopening an arbitrary BlockDriverState with a
new set of options. Some options (e.g node-name) cannot be changed
and some block drivers don't allow reopening, but otherwise this
command is modelled after 'blockdev-add' and the state of the reopened
BlockDriverState should generally be the same as if it had just been
added by 'blockdev-add' with the same set of options.
One notable exception is the 'backing' option: 'x-blockdev-reopen'
requires that it is always present unless the BlockDriverState in
question doesn't have a current or default backing file.
This command allows reconfiguring the graph by using the appropriate
options to change the children of a node. At the moment it's possible
to change a backing file by setting the 'backing' option to the name
of the new node, but it should also be possible to add a similar
functionality to other block drivers (e.g. Quorum, blkverify).
Although the API is unlikely to change, this command is marked
experimental for the time being so there's room to see if the
semantics need changes.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Drop x- and x_ prefixes for latency histograms and update version to
4.0
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Commit a88b179f introduced the ability to set and query bitmap
persistence, but with an atypical spelling.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190308205845.25734-1-eblake@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Remove is an inherently RW operation, so this will fail anyway, but
we can fail it very quickly instead of trying and failing, so do so.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190301191545.8728-6-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
drive and blockdev backup cannot use readonly bitmaps, because the
sync=incremental mechanism actually edits the bitmaps on success.
If you really want to do this operation, use a copied bitmap.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190301191545.8728-5-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Instead of checking against busy, inconsistent, or read only directly,
use a check function with permissions bits that let us streamline the
checks without reproducing them in many places.
Included in this patch are permissions changes that simply add the
inconsistent check to existing permissions call spots, without
addressing existing bugs.
In general, this means that busy+readonly checks become BDRV_BITMAP_DEFAULT,
which checks against all three conditions. busy-only checks become
BDRV_BITMAP_ALLOW_RO.
Notably, remove allows inconsistent bitmaps, so it doesn't follow the pattern.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190301191545.8728-4-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
This field isn't present anymore.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190223000614.13894-10-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
These mean the same thing now. Unify them and rename the merged call
bdrv_dirty_bitmap_busy to indicate semantically what we are describing,
as well as help disambiguate from the various _locked and _unlocked
versions of bitmap helpers that refer to mutex locks.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20190223000614.13894-8-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
bdrv_iterate_format (which is currently only used for printing out the
formats supported by the block layer) doesn't take format whitelisting
into account.
This creates a problem for tests: they enumerate supported formats to
decide which tests to enable, but then discover that QEMU doesn't let
them actually use some of those formats.
To avoid that, exclude formats that are not whitelisted from
enumeration, if whitelisting is in use. Since we have separate
whitelists for r/w and r/o, take this a parameter to
bdrv_iterate_format, and print two lists of supported formats (r/w and
r/o) in main qemu.
Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Shinkevich <andrey.shinkevich@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Before this patch, bdrv_refresh_filename() is used in a pushing manner:
Whenever the BDS graph is modified, the parents of the modified edges
are supposed to be updated (recursively upwards). However, that is
nonviable, considering that we want child changes not to concern
parents.
Also, in the long run we want a pull model anyway: Here, we would have a
bdrv_filename() function which returns a BDS's filename, freshly
constructed.
This patch is an intermediate step. It adds bdrv_refresh_filename()
calls before every place a BDS.filename value is used. The only
exceptions are protocol drivers that use their own filename, which
clearly would not profit from refreshing that filename before.
Also, bdrv_get_encrypted_filename() is removed along the way (as a user
of BDS.filename), since it is completely unused.
In turn, all of the calls to bdrv_refresh_filename() before this patch
are removed, because we no longer have to call this function on graph
changes.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190201192935.18394-2-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
When bitmaps are persistent, they may incur a disk read or write when bitmaps
are added or removed. For configurations like virtio-dataplane, failing to
acquire this lock will abort QEMU when disk IO occurs.
We used to acquire aio_context as part of the bitmap lookup, so re-introduce
the lock for just the cases that have an IO penalty. Commit 2119882c removed
these locks, and I failed to notice this when we committed fd5ae4cc, so this
has been broken since persistent bitmaps were introduced.
Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672010
Reported-By: Aihua Liang <aliang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190218233154.19303-1-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Add a new command, returning block nodes (and their users) graph.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20181221170909.25584-2-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
The 'x' prefix was added because I was uncertain of the direction we'd
take for the libvirt API. With the general approach solidified, I feel
comfortable committing to this API for 4.0.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20181221093529.23855-5-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Especially outside of transactions, it is helpful to provide
all-or-nothing semantics for bitmap merges. This facilitates
the coalescing of multiple bitmaps into a single target for
the "checkpoint" interpretation when assembling bitmaps that
represent arbitrary points in time from component bitmaps.
This is an incompatible change from the preliminary version
of the API.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20181221093529.23855-4-jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Presently, we abort transactions in the same order they were processed in.
Bitmap commands, though, attempt to restore backup data structures on abort.
That's not valid, they need to be aborted in reverse chronological order.
Replace the QSIMPLEQ data structure with a QTAILQ one, so we can iterate
in reverse for the abort phase of the transaction.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20181221093529.23855-2-jsnow@redhat.com>
[eblake: rebase]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Most list head structs need not be given a name. In most cases the
name is given just in case one is going to use QTAILQ_LAST, QTAILQ_PREV
or reverse iteration, but this does not apply to lists of other kinds,
and even for QTAILQ in practice this is only rarely needed. In addition,
we will soon reimplement those macros completely so that they do not
need a name for the head struct. So clean up everything, not giving a
name except in the rare case where it is necessary.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use the QTAILQ_IN_USE macro instead, it does the same thing but the next
patch will change it to a different definition.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This patch replaces the bdrv_reopen() call that set and remove the
BDRV_O_RDWR flag with the new bdrv_reopen_set_read_only() function.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This patch replaces the bdrv_reopen() calls that set and remove the
BDRV_O_RDWR flag with the new bdrv_reopen_set_read_only() function.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
In the function external_snapshot_prepare() we have a
BlockdevSnapshotSync struct, which has the usual combination
of has_snapshot_node_name and snapshot_node_name fields for an
optional field. We set up a local variable
const char *snapshot_node_name =
s->has_snapshot_node_name ? s->snapshot_node_name : NULL;
and then mostly use "if (!snapshot_node_name)" for checking
whether we have a snapshot node name. The exception is that in
one place we check s->has_snapshot_node_name instead. This
confuses Coverity (CID 1396473), which thinks it might be
possible to get here with s->has_snapshot_node_name true but
snapshot_node_name NULL, and warns that the call to
qdict_put_str() will segfault in that case.
Make the code consistent and unconfuse Coverity by using
the same check for this conditional that we do in the rest
of the surrounding code.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Function block_latency_histogram_set may return error, but qapi ignore this.
This can be reproduced easily by qmp command:
virsh qemu-monitor-command INSTANCE '{"execute":"x-block-latency-histogram-set",
"arguments":{"device":"drive-virtio-disk1","boundaries":[10,200,40]}}'
In fact this command does not work, but we still get success result.
qmp_x_block_latency_histogram_set is a batch setting API, report error ASAP.
Signed-off-by: zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
While we want machine interfaces like -blockdev and QMP blockdev-add to
add as little auto-detection as possible so that management tools are
explicit about their needs, -drive is a convenience option for human
users. Enabling auto-read-only=on by default there enables users to use
read-only images for read-only guest devices without having to specify
read-only=on explicitly. If they try to attach the image to a read-write
device, they will still get an error message.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
If a management application builds the block graph node by node, the
protocol layer doesn't inherit its read-only option from the format
layer any more, so it must be set explicitly.
Backing files should work on read-only storage, but at the same time, a
block job like commit should be able to reopen them read-write if they
are on read-write storage. However, without option inheritance, reopen
only changes the read-only option for the root node (typically the
format layer), but not the protocol layer, so reopening fails (the
format layer wants to get write permissions, but the protocol layer is
still read-only).
A simple workaround for the problem in the management tool would be to
open the protocol layer always read-write and to make only the format
layer read-only for backing files. However, sometimes the file is
actually stored on read-only storage and we don't know whether the image
can be opened read-write (for example, for NBD it depends on the server
we're trying to connect to). This adds an option that makes QEMU try to
open the image read-write, but allows it to degrade to a read-only mode
without returning an error.
The documentation for this option is consciously phrased in a way that
allows QEMU to switch to a better model eventually: Instead of trying
when the image is first opened, making the read-only flag dynamic and
changing it automatically whenever the first BLK_PERM_WRITE user is
attached or the last one is detached would be much more useful
behaviour.
Unfortunately, this more useful behaviour is also a lot harder to
implement, and libvirt needs a solution now before it can switch to
-blockdev, so let's start with this easier approach for now.
Instead of adding a new auto-read-only option, turning the existing
read-only into an enum (with a bool alternate for compatibility) was
considered, but it complicated the implementation to the point that it
didn't seem to be worth it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
If the bitmap is frozen, we shouldn't touch it.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20181002230218.13949-6-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
We're not being consistent about this. If it's in use by an operation,
the user should not be able to change the behavior of that bitmap.
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-id: 20181002230218.13949-5-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
