Although the canonical source of reference for QMP commands is
qapi-schema.json, for consistency's sake, update qmp-commands.hx to
state the list of supported transactionable operations, namely:
drive-backup
blockdev-backup
blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync
abort
NB: The 'block-dirty-bitmap-add' and 'block-dirty-bitmap-clear' commands
will be available once the in-review "transactionless incremental
backup" patch series[1] is merged upstream.
[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-04/msg02161.html
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
---
From v1 -> v2:
- Update the "NB" part of the commit message by removing the duplicate
command entry and add the missing one ('block-dirty-bitmap-clear')
- Fix grammer per Eric Blake's review: s/refer/refer to the
---
qmp-commands.hx | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qmp-commands.hx b/qmp-commands.hx
index
3a42ad0bffeb23778f877410f6e2038943da46c0..b7fe31ca37afe0f4ae8f4b6f7be5d379b361b1b8
100644
--- a/qmp-commands.hx
+++ b/qmp-commands.hx
@@ -1200,11 +1200,14 @@ SQMP
transaction
-----------
-Atomically operate on one or more block devices. The only supported operations
-for now are drive-backup, internal and external snapshotting. A list of
-dictionaries is accepted, that contains the actions to be performed.
-If there is any failure performing any of the operations, all operations
-for the group are abandoned.
+Atomically operate on one or more block devices. Operations that are
+currently supported: drive-backup, blockdev-backup,
+blockdev-snapshot-sync, blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync, abort,
+block-dirty-bitmap-add, block-dirty-bitmap-clear (refer to the
+qemu/qapi-schema.json file for minimum required QEMU versions for these
+operations). A list of dictionaries is accepted, that contains the
+actions to be performed. If there is any failure performing any of the
+operations, all operations for the group are abandoned.
For external snapshots, the dictionary contains the device, the file to use
for
the new snapshot, and the format. The default format, if not specified, is