bs->file and bs->backing are a kind of duplication of part of
bs->children. But very useful diplication, so let's not drop them at
all:)
We should manage bs->file and bs->backing in same place, where we
manage bs->children, to keep them in sync.
Moreover, generic io paths are unprepared to BdrvChild without a bs, so
it's double good to clear bs->file / bs->backing when we detach the
child.
Detach is simple: if we detach bs->file or bs->backing child, just
set corresponding field to NULL.
Attach is a bit more complicated. But we still can precisely detect
should we set one of bs->file / bs->backing or not:
- if role is BDRV_CHILD_COW, we definitely deal with bs->backing
- else, if role is BDRV_CHILD_FILTERED (it must be also
BDRV_CHILD_PRIMARY), it's a filtered child. Use
bs->drv->filtered_child_is_backing to chose the pointer field to
modify.
- else, if role is BDRV_CHILD_PRIMARY, we deal with bs->file
- in all other cases, it's neither bs->backing nor bs->file. It's some
other child and we shouldn't care
OK. This change brings one more good thing: we can (and should) get rid
of all indirect pointers in the block-graph-change transactions:
bdrv_attach_child_common() stores BdrvChild** into transaction to clear
it on abort.
bdrv_attach_child_common() has two callers: bdrv_attach_child_noperm()
just pass-through this feature, bdrv_root_attach_child() doesn't need
the feature.
Look at bdrv_attach_child_noperm() callers:
- bdrv_attach_child() doesn't need the feature
- bdrv_set_file_or_backing_noperm() uses the feature to manage
bs->file and bs->backing, we don't want it anymore
- bdrv_append() uses the feature to manage bs->backing, again we
don't want it anymore
So, we should drop this stuff! Great!
We could probably keep BdrvChild** argument to keep the int return
value, but it seems not worth the complexity.
Finally, we now set .file / .backing automatically in generic code and
want to restring setting them by hand outside of .attach/.detach.
So, this patch cleanups all remaining places where they were set.
To find such places I use:
git grep '\->file ='
git grep '\->backing ='
git grep '&.*\<backing\>'
git grep '&.*\<file\>'
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220726201134.924743-14-vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The new block driver simply utilizes snapshot-access API of underlying
block node.
In further patches we want to use it like this:
[guest] [NBD export]
| |
| root | root
v file v
[copy-before-write]<------[snapshot-access]
| |
| file | target
v v
[active-disk] [temp.img]
This way, NBD client will be able to read snapshotted state of active
disk, when active disk is continued to be written by guest. This is
known as "fleecing", and currently uses another scheme based on qcow2
temporary image which backing file is active-disk. New scheme comes
with benefits - see next commit.
The other possible application is exporting internal snapshots of
qcow2, like this:
[guest] [NBD export]
| |
| root | root
v file v
[qcow2]<---------[snapshot-access]
For this, we'll need to implement snapshot-access API handlers in
qcow2 driver, and improve snapshot-access block driver (and API) to
make it possible to select snapshot by name. Another thing to improve
is size of snapshot. Now for simplicity we just use size of bs->file,
which is OK for backup, but for qcow2 snapshots export we'll need to
imporve snapshot-access API to get size of snapshot.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20220303194349.2304213-12-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
[hreitz: Rebased on block GS/IO split]
Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
