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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 29/38] blockdev: Add blockdev-insert-medium


From: Wen Congyang
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 29/38] blockdev: Add blockdev-insert-medium
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:30:16 +0800
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On 09/11/2015 03:09 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 10.09.2015 03:12, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> On 09/09/2015 08:59 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
>>> On 09.09.2015 12:01, Wen Congyang wrote:
>>>> On 09/09/2015 05:20 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>>>>> On 08.09.2015 11:13, Wen Congyang wrote:
>>>>>> On 07/21/2015 01:45 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>>>>>>> And a helper function for that, which directly takes a pointer to the
>>>>>>> BDS to be inserted instead of its node-name (which will be used for
>>>>>>> implementing 'change' using blockdev-insert-medium).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  blockdev.c           | 48 
>>>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>  qapi/block-core.json | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>  qmp-commands.hx      | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>  3 files changed, 102 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
>>>>>>> index 481760a..a80d0e2 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/blockdev.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/blockdev.c
>>>>>>> @@ -2164,6 +2164,54 @@ void qmp_blockdev_remove_medium(const char 
>>>>>>> *device, Error **errp)
>>>>>>>      }
>>>>>>>  }
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> +static void qmp_blockdev_insert_anon_medium(const char *device,
>>>>>>> +                                            BlockDriverState *bs, 
>>>>>>> Error **errp)
>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>> +    BlockBackend *blk;
>>>>>>> +    bool has_device;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    blk = blk_by_name(device);
>>>>>>> +    if (!blk) {
>>>>>>> +        error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND,
>>>>>>> +                  "Device '%s' not found", device);
>>>>>>> +        return;
>>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    /* For BBs without a device, we can exchange the BDS tree at will 
>>>>>>> */
>>>>>>> +    has_device = blk_get_attached_dev(blk);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    if (has_device && !blk_dev_has_removable_media(blk)) {
>>>>>>> +        error_setg(errp, "Device '%s' is not removable", device);
>>>>>>> +        return;
>>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    if (has_device && !blk_dev_is_tray_open(blk)) {
>>>>>>> +        error_setg(errp, "Tray of device '%s' is not open", device);
>>>>>>> +        return;
>>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    if (blk_bs(blk)) {
>>>>>>> +        error_setg(errp, "There already is a medium in device '%s'", 
>>>>>>> device);
>>>>>>> +        return;
>>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    blk_insert_bs(blk, bs);
>>>>>>> +}
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +void qmp_blockdev_insert_medium(const char *device, const char 
>>>>>>> *node_name,
>>>>>>> +                                Error **errp)
>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>> +    BlockDriverState *bs;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +    bs = bdrv_find_node(node_name);
>>>>>>> +    if (!bs) {
>>>>>>> +        error_setg(errp, "Node '%s' not found", node_name);
>>>>>>> +        return;
>>>>>>> +    }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hmm, it is OK if the bs is not top BDS?
>>>>>
>>>>> I think so, yes. Generally, there's probably no reason to do that, but I
>>>>> don't know why we should not allow that case. For instance, you might
>>>>> want to make a backing file available read-only somewhere.
>>>>>
>>>>> It should be impossible to make it available writable, and it should not
>>>>> be allowed to start a block-commit operation while the backing file can
>>>>> be accessed by the guest, but this should be achieved using op blockers.
>>>>>
>>>>> What we need for this to work are fine-grained op blockers, I think. But
>>>>> working around that for now by only allowing to insert top BDS won't
>>>>> work, since you can still start block jobs which target top BDS, too
>>>>> (e.g. blockdev-backup can write to a BDS/BB that is visible to the guest).
>>>>>
>>>>> All in all, I think it's fine to insert non-top BDS, but we should
>>>>> definitely worry about which exact BDS one can insert once we have
>>>>> fine-grained op blockers.
>>>>
>>>> A BDS can be written by its parent, its block backend, a block job..
>>>> So I think we should have some way to avoid more than two sources writing
>>>> to it, otherwise the data may be corrupted.
>>>
>>> Yes, and that would be op blockers.
>>>
>>> As I said, using blockdev-backup you can write to a BB that can be
>>> written to by the guest as well. I think this is a bug, but it is a bug
>>> that needs to be fixed by having better op blockers in place, which Jeff
>>> Cody is working on.
>>>
>>> Regarding this series, I don't consider this to be too big of an issue.
>>> Yes, if you are working with floppy disks, you can have the case of a
>>> block job and the guest writing to the BDS at the same time. But I can't
>>> really imagine who would use floppy disks and block jobs at the same
>>> time (people who still use floppy disks for their VMs don't strike me as
>>> the kind of people who use the management features of qemu, especially
>>> not for those floppy disks).
>>>
>>> Other than that, this function (blockdev-insert-medium) can only be used
>>> for optical ROM devices (I don't think we have CD/DVD-RW support, do
>>> we?), so it's much less of an issue there.
>>>
>>> So all in all I don't consider this too big of an issue here. If others
>>> think different, then I would delay this part of the series (which
>>> overhauls the "change" command) until we have fine-grained op blockers.
>>
>> In most cases, the user uses this command to change CD/DVD media, so it is 
>> OK.
>> But IIRC scsi disk can also be changed. So we can mark this command as 
>> experimental
>> (the command name can be x-blockdev-insert-medium).
> 
> I'd rather delay this part than mark it experimental. But then again,
> seeing that we have cases like this already (i.e. blockdev-backup) and
> nobody seems to be complaining, I still think it should be fine.

Hmm, another question, when will you post the newest patchset? Block 
replication is
based on this patchset.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Max
> 




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