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Stefan Hajnoczi
c5fbe57111 block: split out bdrv_co_do_readv() and bdrv_co_do_writev()
The public interface for I/O in coroutine context is bdrv_co_readv() and
bdrv_co_writev().  Split out the request processing code into
bdrv_co_do_readv() and bdrv_co_writev() so that it can be called
internally when we refactor all request processing to use coroutines.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-13 15:02:53 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
1ed20acf2f block: directly invoke .bdrv_* from emulation functions
The emulation functions which supply default BlockDriver .bdrv_*()
functions given another implemented .bdrv_*() function should not use
public bdrv_*() interfaces.  This patch ensures they invoke .bdrv_*()
directly to avoid adding an extra layer of coroutine request processing
and possibly entering an infinite loop.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-13 15:02:53 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
a652d16025 block: directly invoke .bdrv_aio_*() in bdrv_co_io_em()
We will unify block layer request processing across sync, aio, and
coroutines and this means a .bdrv_co_*() emulation function should not
call back into the public interface.  There's no need here, just call
.bdrv_aio_*() directly.

The gory details: bdrv_co_io_em() cannot call back into the public
bdrv_aio_*() interface since that will be handled using coroutines,
which causes us to call into bdrv_co_io_em() again in an infinite loop
:).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-13 15:02:27 +02:00
Luiz Capitulino
d2078cc238 HMP: Print 'io-status' information
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-11 09:42:45 +02:00
Luiz Capitulino
f04ef60100 QMP: query-status: Add 'io-status' key
Contains the I/O status for the given device. The key is only present
if the device supports it and the VM is configured to stop on errors.

Please, check the documentation being added in this commit for more
information.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-11 09:42:45 +02:00
Luiz Capitulino
28a7282a5d block: Keep track of devices' I/O status
This commit adds support to the BlockDriverState type to keep track
of devices' I/O status.

There are three possible status: BDRV_IOS_OK (no error), BDRV_IOS_ENOSPC
(no space error) and BDRV_IOS_FAILED (any other error). The distinction
between no space and other errors is important because a management
application may want to watch for no space in order to extend the
space assigned to the VM and put it to run again.

Qemu devices supporting the I/O status feature have to enable it
explicitly by calling bdrv_iostatus_enable() _and_ have to be
configured to stop the VM on errors (ie. werror=stop|enospc or
rerror=stop).

In case of multiple errors being triggered in sequence only the first
one is stored. The I/O status is always reset to BDRV_IOS_OK when the
'cont' command is issued.

Next commits will add support to some devices and extend the
query-block/info block commands to return the I/O status information.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-10-11 09:41:47 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
59370aaa56 trace: add arguments to bdrv_co_io_em() trace event
It is useful to know the BlockDriverState as well as the
sector_num/nb_sectors of an emulated .bdrv_co_*() request.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-03 10:56:27 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
28dcee10c5 trace: trace bdrv_open_common()
bdrv_open_common() is a useful point to trace since it reveals the
filename and block driver for a given BlockDriverState.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-10-03 10:55:50 +01:00
Markus Armbruster
7d4b4ba5c2 block: New change_media_cb() parameter load
To let device models distinguish between eject and load.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:22 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
29e05f2022 block: Reset buffer alignment on detach
BlockDriverState member buffer_alignment is initially 512.  The device
model may set them, with bdrv_set_buffer_alignment().  If the device
model gets detached (hot unplug), the device's alignment is left
behind.  Only okay because device hot unplug automatically destroys
the BlockDriverState.  But that's a questionable feature, best not to
rely on it.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:22 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
7b6f9300d5 block: New bdrv_set_buffer_alignment()
Device models should be able to set it without an unclean include of
block_int.h.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:22 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
e4def80b36 block: Show whether the virtual tray is open in info block
Need to ask the device, so this requires new BlockDevOps member
is_tray_open().

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:21 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
9e6a4c9177 block: Drop BlockDriverState member removable
It's a confused mess (see previous commit).  No users remain.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:21 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
2c6942fa7b block: Clean up remaining users of "removable"
BlockDriverState member removable is a confused mess.  It is true when
an ide-cd, scsi-cd or floppy qdev is attached, or when the
BlockDriverState was created with -drive if={floppy,sd} or -drive
if={ide,scsi,xen,none},media=cdrom ("created removable"), except when
an ide-hd, scsi-hd, scsi-generic or virtio-blk qdev is attached.

Three users remain:

1. eject_device(), via bdrv_is_removable() uses it to determine
   whether a block device can eject media.

2. bdrv_info() is monitor command "info block".  QMP documentation
   says "true if the device is removable, false otherwise".  From the
   monitor user's point of view, the only sensible interpretation of
   "is removable" is "can eject media with monitor commands eject and
   change".

A block device can eject media unless a device is attached that
doesn't support it.  Switch the two users over to new
bdrv_dev_has_removable_media() that returns exactly that.

3. bdrv_getlength() uses to suppress its length cache when media can
   change (see commit 46a4e4e6).  Media change is either monitor
   command change (updates the length cache), monitor command eject
   (doesn't update the length cache, easily fixable), or physical
   media change (invalidates length cache, not so easily fixable).

I'm refraining from improving anything here, because this series is
long enough already.  Instead, I simply switch it over to
bdrv_dev_has_removable_media() as well.

This changes the behavior of the length cache and of monitor commands
eject and change in two cases:

a. drive not created removable, no device attached

   The commit makes the drive removable, and defeats the length cache.

   Example: -drive if=none

b. drive created removable, but the attached drive is non-removable,
   and doesn't call bdrv_set_removable(..., 0) (most devices don't)

   The commit makes the drive non-removable, and enables the length
   cache.

   Example: -drive if=xen,media=cdrom -M xenpv

   The other non-removable devices that don't call
   bdrv_set_removable() can't currently use a drive created removable,
   either because they aren't qdevified, or because they lack a drive
   property.  Won't stay that way.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:21 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
025e849a50 block: Rename bdrv_set_locked() to bdrv_lock_medium()
While there, make the locked parameter bool.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:20 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
f107639a6f block: Drop medium lock tracking, ask device models instead
Requires new BlockDevOps member is_medium_locked().  Implement for IDE
and SCSI CD-ROMs.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:20 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
fdec4404dd block: Leave enforcing tray lock to device models
The device model knows best when to accept the guest's eject command.
No need to detour through the block layer.

bdrv_eject() can't fail anymore.  Make it void.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:20 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
22cf56c4d8 block: Drop tray status tracking, no longer used
Commit 4be9762a is now completely redone.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:20 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
a1aff5bf67 block: Revert entanglement of bdrv_is_inserted() with tray status
Commit 4be9762a changed bdrv_is_inserted() to fail when the tray is
open.  Unfortunately, there are two different kinds of users, with
conflicting needs.

1. Device models using bdrv_eject(), currently ide-cd and scsi-cd.
They expect bdrv_is_inserted() to reflect the tray status.  Commit
4be9762a makes them happy.

2. Code that wants to know whether a BlockDriverState has media, such
as find_image_format(), bdrv_flush_all().  Commit 4be9762a makes them
unhappy.  In particular, it breaks flush on VM stop for media ejected
by the guest.

Revert the change to bdrv_is_inserted().  Check the tray status in the
device models instead.

Note on IDE: Since only ATAPI devices have a tray, and they don't
accept ATA commands since the recent commit "ide: Reject ATA commands
specific to drive kinds", checking in atapi.c suffices.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-12 15:17:20 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
07b70bfbb3 savevm: Include writable devices with removable media
savevm and loadvm silently ignore block devices with removable media,
such as floppies and SD cards.  Rolling back a VM to a previous
checkpoint will *not* roll back writes to block devices with removable
media.

Moreover, bdrv_is_removable() is a confused mess, and wrong in at
least one case: it considers "-drive if=xen,media=cdrom -M xenpv"
removable.  It'll be cleaned up later in this series.

Read-only block devices are also ignored, but that's okay.

Fix by ignoring only read-only block devices and empty block devices.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-06 11:24:07 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
c602a489f9 block: Clean up bdrv_flush_all()
Change (!bdrv_is_removable(bs) || bdrv_is_inserted(bs)) to just
bdrv_is_inserted().  Rationale:

    The value of bdrv_is_removable(bs) matters only when
    bdrv_is_inserted(bs) is false.

    bdrv_is_inserted(bs) is true when bs is open (bs->drv != NULL) and
    not an empty host drive (CD-ROM or floppy).

    Therefore, bdrv_is_removable(bs) matters only when:

    1. bs is not open
       old: may call bdrv_flush(bs), which does nothing
       new: won't call

    2. bs is an empty host drive
       old: may call bdrv_flush(bs), which calls driver method
            raw_flush(), which calls fdatasync() or equivalent, which
            can't do anything useful while the drive is empty
       new: won't call

Result is bs->drv && !bdrv_is_read_only(bs) && bdrv_is_inserted(bs).
bdrv_is_inserted(bs) implies bs->drv.  Drop the redundant test.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-06 11:24:07 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
8e49ca4624 block: Leave tracking media change to device models
hw/fdc.c is the only one that cares.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-06 11:24:06 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
145feb176f block: Split change_cb() into change_media_cb(), resize_cb()
Multiplexing callbacks complicates matters needlessly.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-06 11:23:51 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
0e49de5232 block: Generalize change_cb() to BlockDevOps
So we can more easily add device model callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-06 11:23:51 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
fa879d62eb block: Attach non-qdev devices as well
For now, this just protects against programming errors like having the
same drive back multiple non-qdev devices, or untimely bdrv_delete().
Later commits will add other interesting uses.

While there, rename BlockDriverState member peer to dev, bdrv_attach()
to bdrv_attach_dev(), bdrv_detach() to bdrv_detach_dev(), and
bdrv_get_attached() to bdrv_get_attached_dev().

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-09-06 11:23:51 +02:00
Stefan Weil
541dc0d47f Use new macro QEMU_PACKED for packed structures
Most changes were made using these commands:

git grep -la '__attribute__((packed))'|xargs perl -pi -e 's/__attribute__\(\(packed\)\)/QEMU_PACKED/'
git grep -la '__attribute__ ((packed))'|xargs perl -pi -e 's/__attribute__ \(\(packed\)\)/QEMU_PACKED/'
git grep -la '__attribute__((__packed__))'|xargs perl -pi -e 's/__attribute__\(\(__packed__\)\)/QEMU_PACKED/'
git grep -la '__attribute__ ((__packed__))'|xargs perl -pi -e 's/__attribute__ \(\(__packed__\)\)/QEMU_PACKED/'
git grep -la '__attribute((packed))'|xargs perl -pi -e 's/__attribute\(\(packed\)\)/QEMU_PACKED/'

Whitespace in linux-user/syscall_defs.h was fixed manually
to avoid warnings from scripts/checkpatch.pl.

Manual changes were also applied to hw/pc.c.

I did not fix indentation with tabs in block/vvfat.c.
The patch will show 4 errors with scripts/checkpatch.pl.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
2011-09-03 10:45:59 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig
c488c7f649 block: latency accounting
Account the total latency for read/write/flush requests.  This allows
management tools to average it based on a snapshot of the nr ops
counters and allow checking for SLAs or provide statistics.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-26 18:18:38 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
a597e79ce1 block: explicit I/O accounting
Decouple the I/O accounting from bdrv_aio_readv/writev/flush and
make the hardware models call directly into the accounting helpers.

This means:
 - we do not count internal requests from image formats in addition
   to guest originating I/O
 - we do not double count I/O ops if the device model handles it
   chunk wise
 - we only account I/O once it actuall is done
 - can extent I/O accounting to synchronous or coroutine I/O easily
 - implement I/O latency tracking easily (see the next patch)

I've conveted the existing device model callers to the new model,
device models that are using synchronous I/O and weren't accounted
before haven't been updated yet.  Also scsi hasn't been converted
to the end-to-end accounting as I want to defer that after the pending
scsi layer overhaul.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-25 18:18:42 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
e8045d6726 block: include flush requests in info blockstats
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-23 17:41:14 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
92196b2f56 block: add cache=directsync parameter to -drive
This patch adds -drive cache=directsync for O_DIRECT | O_SYNC host file
I/O with no disk write cache presented to the guest.

This mode is useful when guests may not be sending flushes when
appropriate and therefore leave data at risk in case of power failure.
When cache=directsync is used, write operations are only completed to
the guest when data is safely on disk.

This new mode is like cache=writethrough but it bypasses the host page
cache.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-23 14:15:17 +02:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
c3993cdca3 block: parse cache mode flags in a single place
This patch introduces bdrv_parse_cache_flags() which sets open flags
given a cache mode.  Previously this was duplicated in blockdev.c and
qemu-img.c.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-23 14:15:17 +02:00
Robert Wang
d62b5dea30 fix code format
Fix code format to make checkpatch.pl happy.

Signed-off-by: Robert Wang <wdongxu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-08-22 10:17:52 -05:00
Anthony Liguori
7267c0947d Use glib memory allocation and free functions
qemu_malloc/qemu_free no longer exist after this commit.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
2011-08-20 23:01:08 -05:00
Kevin Wolf
e7a8a7837a block: Use bdrv_co_* instead of synchronous versions in coroutines
If we're already in a coroutine, there is no reason to use the synchronous
version of block layer functions when a coroutine one exists. This makes
bdrv_read/write/flush use bdrv_co_* when used inside a coroutine.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-04 11:27:15 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
384acbf46b async: Remove AsyncContext
The purpose of AsyncContexts was to protect qcow and qcow2 against reentrancy
during an emulated bdrv_read/write (which includes a qemu_aio_wait() call and
can run AIO callbacks of different requests if it weren't for AsyncContexts).

Now both qcow and qcow2 are protected by CoMutexes and AsyncContexts can be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-02 15:53:41 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
f9f05dc58c block: Add bdrv_co_readv/writev emulation
In order to be able to call bdrv_co_readv/writev for drivers that don't
implement the functions natively, add an emulation that uses the AIO functions
to implement them.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-02 15:53:40 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
6848542018 block: Emulate AIO functions with bdrv_co_readv/writev
Use the bdrv_co_readv/writev callbacks to implement bdrv_aio_readv/writev and
bdrv_read/write if a driver provides the coroutine version instead of the
synchronous or AIO version.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-02 15:53:40 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
da1fa91d6c block: Add bdrv_co_readv/writev
Add new block driver callbacks bdrv_co_readv/writev, which work on a
QEMUIOVector like bdrv_aio_*, but don't need a callback. The function may only
be called inside a coroutine, so a block driver implementing this interface can
yield instead of blocking during I/O.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-02 15:53:40 +02:00
Frediano Ziglio
5bf3f8e4f7 block: Removed unused function bdrv_write_sync
Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-01 12:10:29 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
49aa46bb4b block: Don't let locked flag prevent medium load
Commit aea2a33c made bdrv_eject() obey the locked flag.  Correct for
medium eject (eject_flag set), incorrect for medium load (eject_flag
clear).  See MMC-5 Table 341 "Actions for Lock/Unlock/Eject".

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-01 12:10:28 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
822e1cd17e block: Make BlockDriver method bdrv_eject() return void
Callees always return 0, except for FreeBSD's cdrom_eject(), which
returns -ENOTSUP when the device is in a terminally wedged state.

The only caller is bdrv_eject(), and it maps -ENOTSUP to 0 since
commit 4be9762a.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-01 12:10:28 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
a19712b0db block: Reset device model callbacks on detach
BlockDriverState members change_cb and change_opaque are initially
null.  The device model may set them, with bdrv_set_change_cb().  If
the device model gets detached (hot unplug), they're left dangling.
Only safe because device hot unplug automatically destroys the
BlockDriverState.  But that's a questionable feature, best not to rely
on it.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-08-01 12:09:11 +02:00
Fam Zheng
4a1d5e1fde block: add bdrv_get_allocated_file_size() operation
qemu-img.c wants to count allocated file size of image. Previously it
counts a single bs->file by 'stat' or Window API. As VMDK introduces
multiple file support, the operation becomes format specific with
platform specific meanwhile.

The functions are moved to block/raw-{posix,win32}.c and qemu-img.c calls
bdrv_get_allocated_file_size to count the bs. And also added VMDK code
to count his own extents.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famcool@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-07-19 15:39:08 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
d220894e02 bdrv_img_create: Fix segfault
Block drivers that don't support creating images don't have a size option. Fail
gracefully instead of segfaulting when trying to access the option's value.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-06-08 11:56:40 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
a659979328 block: clarify the meaning of BDRV_O_NOCACHE
Change BDRV_O_NOCACHE to only imply bypassing the host OS file cache,
but no writeback semantics.  All existing callers are changed to also
specify BDRV_O_CACHE_WB to give them writeback semantics.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-06-08 10:39:32 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
8d278467ff block: Remove type hint, it's guest matter, doesn't belong here
No users of bdrv_get_type_hint() left.  bdrv_set_type_hint() can make
the media removable by side effect.  Make that explicit.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-05-19 10:26:23 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
d8aeeb31d5 block QMP: Deprecate query-block's "type", drop info block's "type="
query-block's specification documents response member "type" with
values "hd", "cdrom", "floppy", "unknown".

Its value is unreliable: a block device used as floppy has type
"floppy" if created with if=floppy, but type "hd" if created with
if=none.

That's because with if=none, the type is at best a declaration of
intent: the drive can be connected to any guest device.  Its type is
really the guest device's business.  Reporting it here is wrong.

No known user of QMP uses "type".  It's unlikely that any unknown
users exist, because its value is useless unless you know how the
block device was created.  But then you also know the true value.

Fixing the broken value risks breaking (hypothetical!) clients that
somehow rely on the current behavior.  Not fixing the value risks
breaking (hypothetical!) clients that rely on the value to be
accurate.  Can't entirely avoid hypothetical lossage.  Change the
value to be always "unknown".

This makes "info block" always report "type=unknown".  Pointless.
Change it to not report the type.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-05-19 10:26:19 +02:00
Stefan Weil
a1c7273b82 Fix typos in comments and code (occured -> occurred and related)
The code changed here is an unused data type name (evt_flush_occurred).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-05-08 10:02:18 +01:00
Stefan Weil
ebabb67a17 Fix typo in code and comments
Replace writeable -> writable

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-05-06 08:19:25 +01:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
46a4e4e608 block: Do not cache device size for removable media
The block layer caches the device size to avoid doing lseek(fd, 0,
SEEK_END) every time this value is needed.  For removable media the
device size becomes stale if a new medium is inserted.  This patch
simply prevents device size caching for removable media.

A smarter solution is to update the cached device size when a new medium
is inserted.  Given that there are currently bugs with CD-ROM media
change I do not want to implement that approach until we've gotten
things correct first.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2011-04-07 13:51:47 +02:00