From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@parallels.com>,
stefanha@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, den@openvz.org,
jsnow@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] qcow2: add autoclear bit for dirty bitmaps
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:39:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E4D79E.2020506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55DEC00C.8010100@virtuozzo.com>
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On 08/27/2015 01:45 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> On 09.06.2015 18:50, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 06:21:24PM +0300, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
>> wrote:
>>> diff --git a/block/qcow2.c b/block/qcow2.c
>>> index 406e55d..f85a55a 100644
>>> --- a/block/qcow2.c
>>> +++ b/block/qcow2.c
>>> @@ -182,6 +182,14 @@ static int
>>> qcow2_read_extensions(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t start_offset,
>>> return ret;
>>> }
>>> + if (!(s->autoclear_features &
>>> QCOW2_AUTOCLEAR_DIRTY_BITMAPS) &&
>>> + s->nb_dirty_bitmaps > 0) {
>>> + ret = qcow2_delete_all_dirty_bitmaps(bs, errp);
>>> + if (ret < 0) {
>>> + return ret;
>>> + }
>>> + }
>>> +
>> What if the file is read-only?
>>
>> We shouldn't modify the file in qcow2_read_extensions().
> But where? In qcow2_open? Or nowhere? I think auto clear extensions
> should be cleared automatically..
Autoclear bits should be cleared ONLY when opening a file for writing,
and ONLY if the version of qemu[-img] opening the file does not
recognize what the bit controls (or if it does recognize the bit, but is
about to perform a semantic action that violates what the bit represents).
We should already be clearing all unrecognized autoclear bits upon
opening a file for writing (if not, that's a bug in the current
implementation), when executing older qemu[-img]. And after your patch
series, we know how to handle dirty bitmaps, so the dirty bitmap
autoclear bit should no longer be cleared automatically (it is no longer
in the mask of unrecognized autoclear bits). So all we have to do now
that we are new-enough qemu[-img] is:
1. be sure to set the autoclear bit any time we write a dirty bitmap
(the image can no longer be safely written by an older qemu[-img],
because those older executables don't know how to interpret the dirty
bitmap extension header and might try to overwrite a cluster that we
have tied up in a dirty bitmap)
2. clear the bit if we are removing the last dirty bitmap from an image
(optimization that is not strictly necessary; but lets older qemu[-img]
once again be able to write to the file without the risk of corrupting it)
3. add in error reporting in case the autoclear bit is clear but the
dirty bitmap header extension is present with a non-zero number of
bitmaps (the autoclear bit served its purpose: an older qemu[-img] has
opened the file for writing since new qemu last handled it, and may have
broken our bitmaps)
Since opening a file read-only cannot (further) corrupt the image, it
also does not need to clear any autoclear bits.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-08 15:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 RFC 0/8] block: persistent dirty bitmaps Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-08 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] spec: add qcow2-dirty-bitmaps specification Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-09 16:01 ` John Snow
2015-06-09 17:03 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-10 8:19 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-10 8:49 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-10 13:00 ` Eric Blake
2015-06-11 10:16 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-10 13:24 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-11 10:19 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-11 13:03 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-11 16:21 ` John Snow
2015-06-12 10:28 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-12 15:19 ` John Snow
2015-06-10 15:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-06-11 10:25 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-11 16:30 ` John Snow
2015-06-12 8:33 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-08-24 10:46 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-24 13:30 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-24 14:08 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-24 14:04 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-31 22:21 ` Eric Blake
2015-08-31 22:24 ` John Snow
2015-06-08 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] qcow2: add dirty-bitmaps feature Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-09 16:52 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-10 14:30 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-12 19:02 ` John Snow
2015-06-15 14:42 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-23 17:57 ` John Snow
2015-06-24 9:39 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-08-14 17:14 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-26 9:09 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-11 23:04 ` John Snow
2015-06-15 14:05 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-15 16:53 ` John Snow
2015-06-12 21:55 ` John Snow
2015-08-26 13:15 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-26 14:14 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-27 12:43 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-08 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] block: store persistent dirty bitmaps Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-08 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] block: add bdrv_load_dirty_bitmap Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-09 16:01 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-10 22:33 ` John Snow
2015-06-11 10:41 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-08 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] qcow2: add qcow2_dirty_bitmap_delete_all Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-08 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] qcow2: add autoclear bit for dirty bitmaps Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-09 15:49 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-09 15:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-08-27 7:45 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-31 11:06 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-31 22:39 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2015-08-31 22:50 ` Eric Blake
2015-06-10 23:42 ` John Snow
2015-06-11 8:35 ` Kevin Wolf
2015-06-11 10:49 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-11 16:36 ` John Snow
2015-06-08 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] qemu: command line option " Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-11 20:57 ` John Snow
2015-06-12 21:49 ` John Snow
2015-06-08 15:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] iotests: test internal persistent dirty bitmap Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-09 16:17 ` Eric Blake
2015-06-10 15:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 RFC 0/8] block: persistent dirty bitmaps Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-11 11:22 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-11 13:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-11 20:06 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-12 9:58 ` Denis V. Lunev
2015-06-12 10:36 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-08-26 6:26 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-08-26 9:13 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-12 19:34 ` John Snow
2015-06-17 14:29 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-06-24 0:21 ` John Snow
2015-07-08 12:24 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2015-07-08 15:21 ` John Snow
2015-08-27 10:08 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
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