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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: char devices on FreeBSD are not behind a
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: char devices on FreeBSD are not behind a pager |
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Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:36:26 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Am 21.10.2014 um 10:14 hat Roger Pau Monné geschrieben:
> El 20/10/14 a les 19.22, Kevin Wolf ha escrit:
> > Am 20.10.2014 um 18:39 hat Roger Pau Monne geschrieben:
> >> Acknowledge this and forcefully set BDRV_O_NOCACHE and O_DIRECT in order to
> >> force QEMU to use aligned buffers.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> >> ---
> >> block/raw-posix.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> >> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/block/raw-posix.c b/block/raw-posix.c
> >> index 86ce4f2..63841dd 100644
> >> --- a/block/raw-posix.c
> >> +++ b/block/raw-posix.c
> >> @@ -472,6 +472,18 @@ static int raw_open_common(BlockDriverState *bs,
> >> QDict *options,
> >> }
> >> #endif
> >> }
> >> +#ifdef __FreeBSD__
> >> + if (S_ISCHR(st.st_mode)) {
> >> + /*
> >> + * The file is a char device (disk), which on FreeBSD isn't behind
> >> + * a pager, so set BDRV_O_NOCACHE unconditionally. This is needed
> >> + * so Qemu makes sure all IO operations on the device are aligned
> >> + * to sector size, or else FreeBSD will reject them with EINVAL.
> >> + */
> >> + bs->open_flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE;
> >> + s->open_flags |= O_DIRECT;
> >> + }
> >> +#endif
> >
> > No, this doesn't look right. Block drivers must not modify the options
> > that they get. (Yes, the Linux AIO case is broken in this respect.
> > Hopefully we'll be able to fix it soon.)
> >
> > Depending on what the real requirements are, I can see two options:
> >
> > 1. Require cache.direct=on (i.e. O_DIRECT) for char devices on FreeBSD.
> > If the user didn't set the option, print a nice error message telling
> > them what option to set.
> >
> > 2. If O_DIRECT isn't actually required to open the file, but you only
> > need to make sure to use the right alignment, modify
> > raw_probe_alignment() so that it returns an alignment > 1 even for
> > non-O_DIRECT files on FreeBSD if they are character devices.
> >
> > I don't know FreeBSD good enough, but if it fulfills the requirements,
> > option 2 is certainly the more elegant one.
>
> Thanks for the review. O_DIRECT is not required to open the file, so
> option 2 seems sensible.
>
> I've added a new flag to BDRVRawState that's used to check if underlying
> device needs requests to be aligned. This flag is set by default if
> BDRV_O_NOCACHE is used, or if the OS is FreeBSD and the underlying
> device is a char dev. This new flag is used as a replacement of the
> O_DIRECT and BDRV_O_NOCACHE checks that were used in raw_probe_alignment
> and raw_aio_submit. Does this sound OK?
Yes, this sounds reasonable to me.
Kevin