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Peter Maydell
80c71a241a block: Clean up includes
Clean up includes so that osdep.h is included first and headers
which it implies are not included manually.

This commit was created with scripts/clean-includes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2016-01-20 13:36:23 +01:00
Fam Zheng
83c98d7b92 block: Drop BlockDriver.bdrv_ioctl
Now the callback is not used any more, drop the field along with all
implementations in block drivers, which are iscsi and raw.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1447064214-29930-8-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-11-12 16:22:43 +01:00
Max Reitz
1354c47378 block/raw_bsd: Drop raw_is_inserted()
With the new automatically-recursive implementation of
bdrv_is_inserted() checking by default whether all the children of a BDS
are inserted, we can drop raw's own implementation.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-10-23 18:18:23 +02:00
Max Reitz
e031f75048 block: Make bdrv_is_inserted() return a bool
Make bdrv_is_inserted(), blk_is_inserted(), and the callback
BlockDriver.bdrv_is_inserted() return a bool.

Suggested-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-10-23 18:18:22 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
9a4f4c3156 block: Convert bs->file to BdrvChild
This patch removes the temporary duplication between bs->file and
bs->file_child by converting everything to BdrvChild.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2015-10-16 15:34:29 +02:00
Ekaterina Tumanova
1a9335e4a9 block: Add driver methods to probe blocksizes and geometry
Introduce driver methods of defining disk blocksizes (physical and
logical) and hard drive geometry.
Methods are only implemented for "host_device". For "raw" devices
driver calls child's method.

For now geometry detection will only work for DASD devices. To check
that a local check_for_dasd function was introduced. It calls BIODASDINFO2
ioctl and returns its rc.

Blocksizes detection function will probe sizes for DASD devices.

Signed-off-by: Ekaterina Tumanova <tumanova@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1424087278-49393-4-git-send-email-tumanova@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2015-03-10 14:02:22 +01:00
Max Reitz
5f535a941e block: Make essential BlockDriver objects public
There are some block drivers which are essential to QEMU and may not be
removed: These are raw, file and qcow2 (as the default non-raw format).
Make their BlockDriver objects public so they can be directly referenced
throughout the block layer without needing to call bdrv_find_format()
and having to deal with an error at runtime, while the real problem
occurred during linking (where raw, file or qcow2 were not linked into
qemu).

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-12-10 10:31:19 +01:00
Kevin Wolf
38f3ef574b raw: Prohibit dangerous writes for probed images
If the user neglects to specify the image format, QEMU probes the
image to guess it automatically, for convenience.

Relying on format probing is insecure for raw images (CVE-2008-2004).
If the guest writes a suitable header to the device, the next probe
will recognize a format chosen by the guest.  A malicious guest can
abuse this to gain access to host files, e.g. by crafting a QCOW2
header with backing file /etc/shadow.

Commit 1e72d3b (April 2008) provided -drive parameter format to let
users disable probing.  Commit f965509 (March 2009) extended QCOW2 to
optionally store the backing file format, to let users disable backing
file probing.  QED has had a flag to suppress probing since the
beginning (2010), set whenever a raw backing file is assigned.

All of these additions that allow to avoid format probing have to be
specified explicitly. The default still allows the attack.

In order to fix this, commit 79368c8 (July 2010) put probed raw images
in a restricted mode, in which they wouldn't be able to overwrite the
first few bytes of the image so that they would identify as a different
image. If a write to the first sector would write one of the signatures
of another driver, qemu would instead zero out the first four bytes.
This patch was later reverted in commit 8b33d9e (September 2010) because
it didn't get the handling of unaligned qiov members right.

Today's block layer that is based on coroutines and has qiov utility
functions makes it much easier to get this functionality right, so this
patch implements it.

The other differences of this patch to the old one are that it doesn't
silently write something different than the guest requested by zeroing
out some bytes (it fails the request instead) and that it doesn't
maintain a list of signatures in the raw driver (it calls the usual
probe function instead).

Note that this change doesn't introduce new breakage for false positive
cases where the guest legitimately writes data into the first sector
that matches the signatures of an image format (e.g. for nested virt):
These cases were broken before, only the failure mode changes from
corruption after the next restart (when the wrong format is probed) to
failing the problematic write request.

Also note that like in the original patch, the restrictions only apply
if the image format has been guessed by probing. Explicitly specifying a
format allows guests to write anything they like.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1416497234-29880-8-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-12-10 10:31:13 +01:00
Markus Armbruster
097310b53e block: Rename BlockDriverCompletionFunc to BlockCompletionFunc
I'll use it with block backends shortly, and the name is going to fit
badly there.  It's a block layer thing anyway, not just a block driver
thing.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-10-20 13:41:27 +02:00
Markus Armbruster
7c84b1b831 block: Rename BlockDriverAIOCB* to BlockAIOCB*
I'll use BlockDriverAIOCB with block backends shortly, and the name is
going to fit badly there.  It's a block layer thing anyway, not just a
block driver thing.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-10-20 13:41:27 +02:00
Kevin Wolf
3baca89139 block: Add Error argument to bdrv_refresh_limits()
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-07-18 13:18:43 +01:00
Chunyan Liu
c282e1fdf7 cleanup QEMUOptionParameter
Now that all backend drivers are using QemuOpts, remove all
QEMUOptionParameter related codes.

Signed-off-by: Dong Xu Wang <wdongxu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-06-16 17:23:21 +08:00
Chunyan Liu
cd3a4cf631 raw_bsd.c: replace QEMUOptionParameter with QemuOpts
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dong Xu Wang <wdongxu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-06-16 17:23:21 +08:00
Chunyan Liu
83d0521a1e change block layer to support both QemuOpts and QEMUOptionParamter
Change block layer to support both QemuOpts and QEMUOptionParameter.
After this patch, it will change backend drivers one by one. At the end,
QEMUOptionParameter will be removed and only QemuOpts is kept.

Signed-off-by: Dong Xu Wang <wdongxu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-06-16 17:23:20 +08:00
Markus Armbruster
84d18f065f Use error_is_set() only when necessary
error_is_set(&var) is the same as var != NULL, but it takes
whole-program analysis to figure that out.  Unnecessarily hard for
optimizers, static checkers, and human readers.  Dumb it down to
obvious.

Gets rid of several dozen Coverity false positives.

Note that the obvious form is already used in many places.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
2014-02-17 11:57:23 -05:00
Kevin Wolf
ad6aef43d3 raw: Fix BlockLimits passthrough
raw copies over the BlockLimits of bs->file during bdrv_open().
However, since commit d34682cd it is immediately overwritten during
bdrv_refresh_limits(). This caused all fields except for
opt_transfer_length and opt_mem_alignment (which happen to be correctly
inherited in generic code) to be zeroed.

Move the BlockLimit assignment to a .bdrv_refresh_limits() callback to
make it work again for all fields.

Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
2014-02-09 09:12:39 +01:00
Peter Lieven
04f19e4d2d block/raw: copy BlockLimits on raw_open
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-11-28 10:30:51 +01:00
Peter Lieven
aa7bfbfff7 block: add flags to bdrv_*_write_zeroes
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-11-28 10:30:51 +01:00
Kevin Wolf
b94a261057 block: Avoid unecessary drv->bdrv_getlength() calls
The block layer generally keeps the size of an image cached in
bs->total_sectors so that it doesn't have to perform expensive
operations to get the size whenever it needs it.

This doesn't work however when using a backend that can change its size
without qemu being aware of it, i.e. passthrough of removable media like
CD-ROMs or floppy disks. For this reason, the caching is disabled when a
removable device is used.

It is obvious that checking whether the _guest_ device has removable
media isn't the right thing to do when we want to know whether the size
of the host backend can change. To make things worse, non-top-level
BlockDriverStates never have any device attached, which makes qemu
assume they are removable, so drv->bdrv_getlength() is always called on
the protocol layer. In the case of raw-posix, this causes unnecessary
lseek() system calls, which turned out to be rather expensive.

This patch completely changes the logic and disables bs->total_sectors
caching only for certain block driver types, for which a size change is
expected: host_cdrom and host_floppy on POSIX, host_device on win32; also
the raw format in case it sits on top of one of these protocols, but in
the common case the nested bdrv_getlength() call on the protocol driver
will use the cache again and avoid an expensive drv->bdrv_getlength()
call.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-10-29 13:10:26 +01:00
Max Reitz
92f1deec31 block/raw_bsd: Employ error parameter
Propagate errors in raw_create rather than directly reporting and
afterwards discarding them.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-10-11 16:50:00 +02:00
Peter Lieven
92bc50a5ad block/get_block_status: avoid redundant callouts on raw devices
if a raw device like an iscsi target or host device is used
the current implementation makes a second call out to get
the block status of bs->file.

Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-10-11 16:49:59 +02:00
Max Reitz
cc84d90ff5 block: Error parameter for create functions
Add an Error ** parameter to bdrv_create and its associated functions to
allow more specific error messages.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2013-09-12 10:12:48 +02:00
Max Reitz
d5124c00d8 bdrv: Use "Error" for creating images
Add an Error ** parameter to BlockDriver.bdrv_create to allow more
specific error messages.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2013-09-12 10:12:48 +02:00
Max Reitz
015a1036a7 bdrv: Use "Error" for opening images
Add an Error ** parameter to BlockDriver.bdrv_open and
BlockDriver.bdrv_file_open to allow more specific error messages.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2013-09-12 10:12:47 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
b6b8a33354 block: introduce bdrv_get_block_status API
For now, bdrv_get_block_status is just another name for bdrv_is_allocated.
The next patches will add more flags.

This also touches all block drivers with a mostly mechanical rename.  The
sole exception is cow; because it calls cow_co_is_allocated from the read
code, we keep that function and make cow_co_get_block_status a wrapper.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-09-06 15:25:09 +02:00
Paolo Bonzini
bdad13b9de block: make bdrv_co_is_allocated static
bdrv_is_allocated can detect coroutine context and go through a fast
path, similar to other block layer functions.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-09-06 15:25:08 +02:00
Laszlo Ersek
7a6d3fc594 switch raw block driver from "raw.o" to "raw_bsd.o"
"Incoming" function prototypes and "outgoing" function calls must match
reality. Implemented using the "struct BlockDriver" definition in
"include/block/block_int.h", and gcc errors & warnings.

v1->v2:

On 08/20/13 09:51, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 18.08.2013 um 16:29 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
>> Il 16/08/2013 16:15, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>>> +static int raw_reopen_prepare(BDRVReopenState *reopen_state,
>>> +                              BlockReopenQueue *queue, Error **errp)
>>>  {
>>> -    return bdrv_reopen_prepare(bs->file);
>>> +    BDRVReopenState tmp = *reopen_state;
>>> +
>>> +    tmp.bs = tmp.bs->file;
>>> +    return bdrv_reopen_prepare(&tmp, queue, errp);
>>>  }
>>
>> This should just return zero, my fault.
>
> Which is because bdrv_reopen_queue() already queues bs->file for reopen.
> The simple return 0; implementation is shared by all other format drivers
> that support reopening images.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-08-30 15:28:52 +02:00
Laszlo Ersek
775d6afd5c raw_bsd: register bdrv_raw
On 08/05/13 15:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> 5) Formats are registered with bdrv_register (takes a BlockDriver*). You
> also need to pass the caller of bdrv_register to block_init.

Fill in the BlockDriver structure with the raw_*() functions that have
been added to "block/raw_bsd.c", in the order the fields are defined in
"include/block/block_int.h".

I needed more explanation / naming examples for registering the driver
than what Paolo gave me, so I copied / adapted from "block/qcow2.c". The
parts I took as basis for modification are blamed on

    commit 5efa9d5a8b
    Author: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    Date:   Sat May 9 17:03:42 2009 -0500

        Convert block infrastructure to use new module init functionality

    commit 20d97356c9
    Author: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
    Date:   Fri Apr 23 20:19:47 2010 +0000

        Fix OpenBSD build

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-08-30 15:28:52 +02:00
Laszlo Ersek
ff369a483d raw_bsd: add raw_create_options
On 08/05/13 15:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> 4) There is another member, .create_options, which is an array of
> QEMUOptionParameter structs, terminated by an all-zero item.  The only
> option you need is for the virtual disk size.  You will find something
> to copy from in other block drivers, for example block/qcow2.c.

Code taken and adapted from "block/qcow2.c", as suggested. The code being
copied/modified is blamed on

    commit 20d97356c9
    Author: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
    Date:   Fri Apr 23 20:19:47 2010 +0000

        Fix OpenBSD build

and

    commit 7c80ab3f21
    Author: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
    Date:   Fri Dec 17 16:02:39 2010 +0100

        block/qcow2.c: rename qcow_ functions to qcow2_

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-08-30 15:28:52 +02:00
Laszlo Ersek
01dd96d8f4 raw_bsd: introduce "special members"
On 08/05/13 15:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> 3) These members are special
>
>     .format_name   is the string "raw"
>     .bdrv_open     raw_open should set bs->sg to bs->file->sg and return 0
>     .bdrv_close    raw_close should do nothing
>     .bdrv_probe    raw_probe should just return 1.

v1->v2:

On 08/20/13 10:11, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 16.08.2013 um 16:15 hat Laszlo Ersek geschrieben:

>> +static int raw_probe(void)
>> +{
>> +    return 1;
>> +}
>
> Maybe add a comment here like "smallest possible positive score so that
> raw is used if and only if no other block driver works".

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-08-30 15:28:52 +02:00
Laszlo Ersek
1565262c37 raw_bsd: add raw_create()
On 08/05/13 15:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> 2) This is also a simple forwarder function:
>
>     .bdrv_create
>
> but there is no BlockDriverState argument so the forwarded-to function
> does not have a bs->file argument either.  The forwarded-to function is
> bdrv_create_file.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-08-30 15:28:52 +02:00
Laszlo Ersek
9eaafd90d1 raw_bsd: emit debug events in bdrv_co_readv() and bdrv_co_writev()
On 08/05/13 15:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> 1) BlockDriver is a struct in which these function members are
> interesting:
>
>     .bdrv_reopen_prepare
>     .bdrv_co_readv
>     .bdrv_co_writev
>     .bdrv_co_is_allocated
>     .bdrv_co_write_zeroes
>     .bdrv_co_discard
>     .bdrv_getlength
>     .bdrv_get_info
>     .bdrv_truncate
>     .bdrv_is_inserted
>     .bdrv_media_changed
>     .bdrv_eject
>     .bdrv_lock_medium
>     .bdrv_ioctl
>     .bdrv_aio_ioctl
>     .bdrv_has_zero_init
>
> They should be implemented as simple forwarders (see above). There are
> 16 functions listed here, you can easily see how this already accounts
> for 100+ SLOC roughly...
>
> The implementations of bdrv_co_readv and bdrv_co_writev should also call
> BLKDBG_EVENT on bs->file too, before forwarding to bs->file.  The events
> to be generated are BLKDBG_READ_AIO and BLKDBG_WRITE_AIO.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-08-30 15:28:52 +02:00
Laszlo Ersek
e1c66c6d82 add skeleton for BSD licensed "raw" BlockDriver
On 08/05/13 15:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>
>> To: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>> Sent: Monday, August 5, 2013 2:43:46 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] raw: add license header
>>
>> On 08/02/13 00:27, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> On 08/01/2013 10:13 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 08:19:51AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>>> Most of the block layer is under the BSD license, thus it is
>>>>> reasonable to license block/raw.c the same way.  CCed people should
>>>>> ACK by replying with a Signed-off-by line.
>>>>
>>>> The coded was intended to be GPLv2.
>>>
>>> Laszlo, would you be willing to do clean-room reverse engineering?
>>>
>>> (No rants, please. :))
>>
>> What's the scope exactly?
>
> It's quite small, it's a file full of forwarders like
>
> static void raw_foo(BlockDriverState *bs)
> {
>     return bdrv_foo(bs->file);
> }
>
> It's 170 lines of code, all as boring as this.  I only picked you
> because I'm quite certain you have never seen the file (and the answer
> confirmed it).
>
> Basically:
>
> 1) BlockDriver is a struct in which these function members are
> interesting:
>
>     .bdrv_reopen_prepare
>     .bdrv_co_readv
>     .bdrv_co_writev
>     .bdrv_co_is_allocated
>     .bdrv_co_write_zeroes
>     .bdrv_co_discard
>     .bdrv_getlength
>     .bdrv_get_info
>     .bdrv_truncate
>     .bdrv_is_inserted
>     .bdrv_media_changed
>     .bdrv_eject
>     .bdrv_lock_medium
>     .bdrv_ioctl
>     .bdrv_aio_ioctl
>     .bdrv_has_zero_init
>
> They should be implemented as simple forwarders (see above).
> There are 16 functions listed here, you can easily see how this
> already accounts for 100+ SLOC roughly...
>
> The implementations of bdrv_co_readv and bdrv_co_writev should also
> call BLKDBG_EVENT on bs->file too, before forwarding to bs->file.  The
> events to be generated are BLKDBG_READ_AIO and BLKDBG_WRITE_AIO.
>
> 2) This is also a simple forwarder function:
>
>     .bdrv_create
>
> but there is no BlockDriverState argument so the forwarded-to function
> does not have a bs->file argument either.  The forwarded-to function
> is bdrv_create_file.
>
> 3) These members are special
>
>     .format_name   is the string "raw"
>     .bdrv_open     raw_open should set bs->sg to bs->file->sg and return 0
>     .bdrv_close    raw_close should do nothing
>     .bdrv_probe    raw_probe should just return 1.
>
> 4) There is another member, .create_options, which is an array of
> QEMUOptionParameter structs, terminated by an all-zero item.  The only
> option you need is for the virtual disk size.  You will find something
> to copy from in other block drivers, for example block/qcow2.c.
>
> 5) Formats are registered with bdrv_register (takes a BlockDriver*).
> You also need to pass the caller of bdrv_register to block_init.
>
> 6) I'm not sure how to organize the patch series, so I'll leave this to
> your creativity.  I guess in this case move/copy detection of git should
> be disabled.  I would definitely include this spec in the commit
> message as a proof of clean-room reverse engineering.
>
> 7) Remember a BSD header like the one in block.c.
>
> Paolo

This patch implements the email up to the paragraph ending with "100+ SLOC
roughly". The skeleton is generated from the list there, with a simple
shell loop using "sed" and the raw_foo() template.

The BSD license block is copied (and reflowed) from
"util/qemu-progress.c".

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2013-08-30 15:28:52 +02:00