From include/qapi/error.h:
* Pass an existing error to the caller with the message modified:
* error_propagate(errp, err);
* error_prepend(errp, "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name);
Fei Li pointed out that doing error_propagate() first doesn't work
well when @errp is &error_fatal or &error_abort: the error_prepend()
is never reached.
Since I doubt fixing the documentation will stop people from getting
it wrong, introduce error_propagate_prepend(), in the hope that it
lures people away from using its constituents in the wrong order.
Update the instructions in error.h accordingly.
Convert existing error_prepend() next to error_propagate to
error_propagate_prepend(). If any of these get reached with
&error_fatal or &error_abort, the error messages improve. I didn't
check whether that's the case anywhere.
Cc: Fei Li <fli@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181017082702.5581-2-armbru@redhat.com>
bdrv_truncate() is an operation that can block (even for a quite long
time, depending on the PreallocMode) in I/O paths that shouldn't block.
Convert it to a coroutine_fn so that we have the infrastructure for
drivers to make their .bdrv_co_truncate implementation asynchronous.
This change could potentially introduce new race conditions because
bdrv_truncate() isn't necessarily executed atomically any more. Whether
this is a problem needs to be evaluated for each block driver that
supports truncate:
* file-posix/win32, gluster, iscsi, nfs, rbd, ssh, sheepdog: The
protocol drivers are trivially safe because they don't actually yield
yet, so there is no change in behaviour.
* copy-on-read, crypto, raw-format: Essentially just filter drivers that
pass the request to a child node, no problem.
* qcow2: The implementation modifies metadata, so it needs to hold
s->lock to be safe with concurrent I/O requests. In order to avoid
double locking, this requires pulling the locking out into
preallocate_co() and using qcow2_write_caches() instead of
bdrv_flush().
* qed: Does a single header update, this is fine without locking.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The following pattern occurs in the .bdrv_co_create_opts() methods of
parallels, qcow, qcow2, qed, vhdx and vpc:
qobj = qdict_crumple_for_keyval_qiv(qdict, errp);
qobject_unref(qdict);
qdict = qobject_to(QDict, qobj);
if (qdict == NULL) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto done;
}
v = qobject_input_visitor_new_keyval(QOBJECT(qdict));
[...]
ret = 0;
done:
qobject_unref(qdict);
[...]
return ret;
If qobject_to() fails, we return failure without setting errp. That's
wrong. As far as I can tell, it cannot fail here. Clean it up
anyway, by removing the useless conversion.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Configuration flows through the block subsystem in a rather peculiar
way. Configuration made with -drive enters it as QemuOpts.
Configuration made with -blockdev / blockdev-add enters it as QAPI
type BlockdevOptions. The block subsystem uses QDict, QemuOpts and
QAPI types internally. The precise flow is next to impossible to
explain (I tried for this commit message, but gave up after wasting
several hours). What I can explain is a flaw in the BlockDriver
interface that leads to this bug:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -blockdev node-name=n1,driver=nfs,server.type=inet,server.host=localhost,path=/foo/bar,user=1234
qemu-system-x86_64: -blockdev node-name=n1,driver=nfs,server.type=inet,server.host=localhost,path=/foo/bar,user=1234: Internal error: parameter user invalid
QMP blockdev-add is broken the same way.
Here's what happens. The block layer passes configuration represented
as flat QDict (with dotted keys) to BlockDriver methods
.bdrv_file_open(). The QDict's members are typed according to the
QAPI schema.
nfs_file_open() converts it to QAPI type BlockdevOptionsNfs, with
qdict_crumple() and a qobject input visitor.
This visitor comes in two flavors. The plain flavor requires scalars
to be typed according to the QAPI schema. That's the case here. The
keyval flavor requires string scalars. That's not the case here.
nfs_file_open() uses the latter, and promptly falls apart for members
@user, @group, @tcp-syn-count, @readahead-size, @page-cache-size,
@debug.
Switching to the plain flavor would fix -blockdev, but break -drive,
because there the scalars arrive in nfs_file_open() as strings.
The proper fix would be to replace the QDict by QAPI type
BlockdevOptions in the BlockDriver interface. Sadly, that's beyond my
reach right now.
Next best would be to fix the block layer to always pass correctly
typed QDicts to the BlockDriver methods. Also beyond my reach.
What I can do is throw another hack onto the pile: have
nfs_file_open() convert all members to string, so use of the keyval
flavor actually works, by replacing qdict_crumple() by new function
qdict_crumple_for_keyval_qiv().
The pattern "pass result of qdict_crumple() to
qobject_input_visitor_new_keyval()" occurs several times more:
* qemu_rbd_open()
Same issue as nfs_file_open(), but since BlockdevOptionsRbd has only
string members, its only a latent bug. Fix it anyway.
* parallels_co_create_opts(), qcow_co_create_opts(),
qcow2_co_create_opts(), bdrv_qed_co_create_opts(),
sd_co_create_opts(), vhdx_co_create_opts(), vpc_co_create_opts()
These work, because they create the QDict with
qemu_opts_to_qdict_filtered(), which creates only string scalars.
The function sports a TODO comment asking for better typing; that's
going to be fun. Use qdict_crumple_for_keyval_qiv() to be safe.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
There are numerous QDict functions that have been introduced for and are
used only by the block layer. Move their declarations into an own
header file to reflect that.
While qdict_extract_subqdict() is in fact used outside of the block
layer (in util/qemu-config.c), it is still a function related very
closely to how the block layer works with nested QDicts, namely by
sometimes flattening them. Therefore, its declaration is put into this
header as well and util/qemu-config.c includes it with a comment stating
exactly which function it needs.
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180509165530.29561-7-mreitz@redhat.com>
[Copyright note tweaked, superfluous includes dropped]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We have too many driver callback interfaces; simplify the mess
somewhat by merging the flags parameter of .bdrv_co_writev_flags()
into .bdrv_co_writev(). Note that as long as a driver doesn't set
.supported_write_flags, the flags argument will be 0 and behavior is
identical. Also note that the public function bdrv_co_writev() still
lacks a flags argument; so the driver signature is thus intentionally
slightly different. But that's not the end of the world, nor the first
time that the driver interface differs slightly from the public
interface.
Ideally, we should be rewriting all of these drivers to use modern
byte-based interfaces. But that's a more invasive patch to write
and audit, compared to the simplification done here.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Now that we can safely call QOBJECT() on QObject * as well as its
subtypes, we can have macros qobject_ref() / qobject_unref() that work
everywhere instead of having to use QINCREF() / QDECREF() for QObject
and qobject_incref() / qobject_decref() for its subtypes.
The replacement is mechanical, except I broke a long line, and added a
cast in monitor_qmp_cleanup_req_queue_locked(). Unlike
qobject_decref(), qobject_unref() doesn't accept void *.
Note that the new macros evaluate their argument exactly once, thus no
need to shout them.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180419150145.24795-4-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
[Rebased, semantic conflict resolved, commit message improved]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
This patch was generated using the following Coccinelle script:
@@
expression Obj;
@@
(
- qobject_to_qnum(Obj)
+ qobject_to(QNum, Obj)
|
- qobject_to_qstring(Obj)
+ qobject_to(QString, Obj)
|
- qobject_to_qdict(Obj)
+ qobject_to(QDict, Obj)
|
- qobject_to_qlist(Obj)
+ qobject_to(QList, Obj)
|
- qobject_to_qbool(Obj)
+ qobject_to(QBool, Obj)
)
and a bit of manual fix-up for overly long lines and three places in
tests/check-qjson.c that Coccinelle did not find.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-Id: <20180224154033.29559-4-mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[eblake: swap order from qobject_to(o, X), rebase to master, also a fix
to latent false-positive compiler complaint about hw/i386/acpi-build.c]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
This adds the .bdrv_co_create driver callback to qed, which
enables image creation over QMP.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1516279431-30424-8-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
QED's bdrv_invalidate_cache implementation would like to reuse functions
that acquire/release the metadata locks. Call it from coroutine context
to simplify the logic.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1516279431-30424-6-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
It is called from qed_invalidate_cache in coroutine context (incoming
migration runs in a coroutine), so it's cleaner if metadata is always
loaded from a coroutine.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1516279431-30424-5-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
BlockDriver->bdrv_create() has been called from coroutine context since
commit 5b7e1542cf ("block: make
bdrv_create adopt coroutine").
Make this explicit by renaming to .bdrv_co_create_opts() and add the
coroutine_fn annotation. This makes it obvious to block driver authors
that they may yield, use CoMutex, or other coroutine_fn APIs.
bdrv_co_create is reserved for the QAPI-based version that Kevin is
working on.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170705102231.20711-2-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
We are gradually moving away from sector-based interfaces, towards
byte-based. Update the qed driver accordingly, taking the opportunity
to inline qed_is_allocated_cb() into its lone caller (the callback
used to be important, until we switched qed to coroutines). There is
no intent to optimize based on the want_zero flag for this format.
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>
We don't need the can_write_zeroes_with_unmap field in
BlockDriverInfo, because it is redundant information with
supported_zero_flags & BDRV_REQ_MAY_UNMAP. Note that
BlockDriverInfo and supported_zero_flags are both per-device
settings, rather than global state about the driver as a
whole, which means one or both of these bits of information
can already be conditional. Let's audit how they were set:
crypto: always setting can_write_ to false is pointless (the
struct starts life zero-initialized), no use of supported_
nbd: just recently fixed to set can_write_ if supported_
includes MAY_UNMAP (thus this commit effectively reverts
bca80059e and solves the problem mentioned there in a more
global way)
file-posix, iscsi, qcow2: can_write_ is conditional, while
supported_ was unconditional; but passing MAY_UNMAP would
fail with ENOTSUP if the condition wasn't met
qed: can_write_ is unconditional, but pwrite_zeroes lacks
support for MAY_UNMAP and supported_ is not set. Perhaps
support can be added later (since it would be similar to
qcow2), but for now claiming false is no real loss
all other drivers: can_write_ is not set, and supported_ is
either unset or a passthrough
Simplify the code by moving the conditional into
supported_zero_flags for all drivers, then dropping the
now-unused BDI field. For callers that relied on
bdrv_can_write_zeroes_with_unmap(), we return the same
per-device settings for drivers that had conditions (no
observable change in behavior there); and can now return
true (instead of false) for drivers that support passthrough
(for example, the commit driver) which gives those drivers
the same fix as nbd just got in bca80059e. For callers that
relied on supported_zero_flags, we now have a few more places
that can avoid a wasted call to pwrite_zeroes() that will
just fail with ENOTSUP.
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180126193439.20219-1-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
qemu-common.h includes qemu/option.h, but most places that include the
former don't actually need the latter. Drop the include, and add it
to the places that actually need it.
While there, drop superfluous includes of both headers, and
separate #include from file comment with a blank line.
This cleanup makes the number of objects depending on qemu/option.h
drop from 4545 (out of 4743) to 284 in my "build everything" tree.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180201111846.21846-20-armbru@redhat.com>
[Semantic conflict with commit bdd6a90a9e in block/nvme.c resolved]
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180201111846.21846-6-armbru@redhat.com>
This makes the driver thread-safe. The CoMutex is dropped temporarily
while accessing the data clusters or the backing file.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170629132749.997-10-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
This will be used in the next patch, which will call bdrv_qed_do_open
with a CoMutex taken. bdrv_qed_init_state provides a nice place to
initialize it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170629132749.997-9-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
This will let the callback take a CoMutex in the next patch.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170629132749.997-8-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
This part is never called for in-place writes, move it away to avoid
the "backwards" coding style typical of callback-based code.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170629132749.997-7-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
blk_truncate() itself will pass that value to bdrv_truncate(), and all
callers of blk_truncate() just set the parameter to PREALLOC_MODE_OFF
for now.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170613202107.10125-4-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Add a PreallocMode parameter to the bdrv_truncate() function implemented
by each block driver. Currently, we always pass PREALLOC_MODE_OFF and no
driver accepts anything else.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20170613202107.10125-2-mreitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Change the 'int count' parameter in *pwrite_zeros, *pdiscard related
functions (and some others) to 'int bytes', as they both refer to bytes.
This helps with code legibility.
Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <el13635@mail.ntua.gr>
Message-id: 20170609101808.13506-1-el13635@mail.ntua.gr
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
All functions that are marked coroutine_fn can directly call the
bdrv_co_* version of functions instead of going through the wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <el13635@mail.ntua.gr>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Now that we stay in coroutine context for the whole request when doing
reads or writes, we can add coroutine_fn annotations to many functions
that can do I/O or yield directly.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This fixes the last place where we degraded from AIO to actual blocking
synchronous I/O requests. Putting it into a coroutine means that instead
of blocking, the coroutine simply yields while doing I/O.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Now that we process a request in the same coroutine from beginning to
end and don't drop out of it any more, we can look like a proper
coroutine-based driver and simply call qed_aio_next_io() and get a
return value from it instead of spawning an additional coroutine that
reenters the parent when it's done.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Now that we're running in coroutine context, the ad-hoc serialisation
code (which drops a request that has to wait out of coroutine context)
can be replaced by a CoQueue.
This means that when we resume a serialised request, it is running in
coroutine context again and its I/O isn't blocking any more.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Most of the qed code is now synchronous and matches the coroutine model.
One notable exception is the serialisation between requests which can
still schedule a callback. Before we can replace this with coroutine
locks, let's convert the driver's external interfaces to the coroutine
versions.
We need to be careful to handle both requests that call the completion
callback directly from the calling coroutine (i.e. fully synchronous
code) and requests that involve some callback, so that we need to yield
and wait for the completion callback coming from outside the coroutine.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <el13635@mail.ntua.gr>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Instead of calling itself recursively as the last thing, just convert
qed_aio_next_io() into a loop.
This patch is best reviewed with 'git show -w' because most of it is
just whitespace changes.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Don't recurse into qed_aio_next_io() and qed_aio_complete() here, but
just return an error code and let the caller handle it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Don't recurse into qed_aio_next_io() and qed_aio_complete() here, but
just return an error code and let the caller handle it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Don't recurse into qed_aio_next_io() and qed_aio_complete() here, but
just return an error code and let the caller handle it.
While refactoring qed_aio_write_alloc() to accomodate the change,
qed_aio_write_zero_cluster() ended up with a single line, so I chose to
inline that line and remove the function completely.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Don't recurse into qed_aio_next_io() and qed_aio_complete() here, but
just return an error code and let the caller handle it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Don't recurse into qed_aio_next_io() and qed_aio_complete() here, but
just return an error code and let the caller handle it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Don't recurse into qed_aio_next_io() and qed_aio_complete() here, but
just return an error code and let the caller handle it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
qed_commit_l2_update() is unconditionally called at the end of
qed_aio_write_l1_update(). Inline it.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Note that this code is generally not running in coroutine context, so
this is an actual blocking synchronous operation. We'll fix this in a
moment.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Note that this code is generally not running in coroutine context, so
this is an actual blocking synchronous operation. We'll fix this in a
moment.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Note that this code is generally not running in coroutine context, so
this is an actual blocking synchronous operation. We'll fix this in a
moment.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
With this change, qed_aio_write_prefill() and qed_aio_write_postfill()
collapse into a single function. This is reflected by a rename of the
combined function to qed_aio_write_cow().
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Note that this code is generally not running in coroutine context, so
this is an actual blocking synchronous operation. We'll fix this in a
moment.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Note that this code is generally not running in coroutine context, so
this is an actual blocking synchronous operation. We'll fix this in a
moment.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>