Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/7] qemu-img: Add salvaging mode to convert

[Max Reitz]

On 07.05.19 22:35, Max Reitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series adds a --salvage option to qemu-img convert.  With this,
> qemu-img will not abort when it encounters an I/O error.  Instead, it
> tries to narrow it down and will treat the affected sectors as being
> completely 0 (and print a warning).
> 
> Testing this is not so easy, because while real I/O errors during read
> operations should be treated as described above, errors encountered
> during bdrv_block_status() should just be ignored and the affected
> sectors should be considered allocated.  But blkdebug does not yet have
> a way to intercept this, and:
> 
> (1) Just adding a new block-status event would be silly, because I don't
>     want an event, I want it to fail on a certain kind of operation, on
>     a certain sector range, independently of any events, so why can't we
>     just do that?  See patch 4.
> 
> (2) If we just make blkdebug intercept .bdrv_co_block_status() like all
>     other kinds of operations, at least iotest 041 fails, which does
>     exactly that silly thing: It uses the read_aio event to wait for any
>     read.  But it turns out that there may be a bdrv_*block_status()
>     call in between, so suddenly the wrong operation yields an error.
>     As I said, the real fault here is that it does not really make sense
>     to pray that the operation you want to fail is the one that is
>     immediately executed after some event that you hope will trigger
>     that operation.
>     See patch 3.
> 
> So patch 3 allows blkdebug users to select which kind of I/O operation
> they actually want to make fail, and patch 4 allows them to not use any
> event, but to have a rule active all the time.
> 
> Together, we can then enable error injection for block-status in patch 5
> and make use of event=none iotype=block-status in patch 6.

Applied the series to my block branch, and fixed _filter_offsets in
patch 6 as suggested by Vladimir.

Max

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