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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 09/11] blockjob: add block_job_start


From: John Snow
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 09/11] blockjob: add block_job_start
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 18:44:38 -0400
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On 10/05/2016 11:17 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 01.10.2016 um 00:00 hat John Snow geschrieben:
Instead of automatically starting jobs at creation time via backup_start
et al, we'd like to return a job object pointer that can be started
manually at later point in time.

For now, add the block_job_start mechanism and start the jobs
automatically as we have been doing, with conversions job-by-job coming
in later patches.

Of note: cancellation of unstarted jobs will perform all the normal
cleanup as if the job had started, particularly abort and clean. The
only difference is that we will not emit any events, because the job
never actually started.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <address@hidden>

Should we make sure that jobs are only added to the block_jobs list once
they are started? It doesn't sound like a good idea to make a job
without a coroutine user-accessible.

Kevin


That would certainly help limit exposure to a potentially dangerous object, but some operations on these un-started jobs are still perfectly reasonable, like cancellation. Even things like "set speed" are perfectly reasonable on an unstarted job.

I'd rather just verify that having an accessible job cannot be operated on unsafely via the public interface, even though that's more work.

So here's the list:

-block_job_next: Harmless.

-block_job_get: Harmless.

-block_job_set_speed: Depends on the set_speed implementation, but backup_set_speed makes no assumptions and that's the only job I am attempting to convert in this series.

-block_job_cancel: Edited to specifically support pre-started jobs in this patch.

-block_job_complete: Edited to check for a coroutine specifically, but even without, a job will not be able to become ready without running first.

-block_job_query: Harmless* (*I could probably expose a 'started' variable so that libvirt didn't get confused as to why there are jobs that exist but are not busy nor paused.)

-block_job_pause: Harmless**

-block_job_user_pause: Harmless**

-block_job_user_paused: Harmless, if meaningless.

-block_job_resume: **We will attempt to call block_job_enter, but conditional on job->co, we do nothing, so it's harmless if not misleading that you can pause/resume to your heart's content.

-block_job_user_resume: ^ http://i.imgur.com/2zYxrIe.png ^

-block_job_cancel_sync: Safe, due to edits to block_job_cancel. Polling loop WILL complete as normal, because all jobs will finish through block_job_completed one way or another.

-block_job_cancel_sync_all: As safe as the above.

-block_job_complete_sync: Safe, complete will return error for unstarted jobs.

-block_job_iostatus_reset: Harmless, I think -- backup does not implement this method. (Huh, *no* jobs implement iostatus_reset at the moment...)

-block_job_txn_new: Doesn't operate on jobs.

-block_job_txn_unref: Also doesn't operate on jobs.

-block_job_get_aio_context: Harmless.

-block_job_txn_add_job: Safe and intended! There is trickery here, though, as once a job is introduced into transactions it opens it up to the private interface. This adds the following functions to considerations:

-block_job_completed: Safe, does not assume a coroutine anywhere.

-block_job_completed_single: Specifically updated to be context-aware of if we are pre-started or not. This is the "real" completion mechanism for BlockJobs that gets run for transactional OR individual jobs.

-block_job_completed_txn_abort: ***BUG***! The problem with the patch as I've sent it is that cancel calls completed (under the premise that nobody else would ever get to be able to), but we call both cancel AND completed from this function, which will cause us to call completed twice on pre-started jobs. I will fix this for the next version.

-block_job_completed_txn_success: Should never be called; if it IS, the presence of an unstarted job in the transaction will cause an early return. And even if I am utterly wrong and every job in the transaction completes successfully (somehow?) calling block_job_completed_single is perfectly safe by design.


Everything else is either internal to block job instances or the blockjob core.


There may be:
(A) Bugs in my code/thinking, or
(B) Improvements we can make to the readability,

but I believe that this is (Apart from the mentioned bug) not dangerous.

--js



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