Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] block: Fix dirty bitmap in bdrv_co_discard

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 05/05/2015 14:46, Fam Zheng wrote:
> Unsetting dirty globally with discard is not very correct. The discard may zero
> out sectors (depending on can_write_zeroes_with_unmap), we should replicate
> this change to destinition side to make sure that the guest sees the same data.
> 
> Calling bdrv_reset_dirty also troubles mirror job because the hbitmap iterator
> doesn't expect unsetting of bits after current position.
> 
> So let's do it the opposite way which fixes both problems: set the dirty bits
> if we are to discard it.

This is not enough, you also have to do the discard in block/mirror.c,
otherwise the destination image could even become fully provisioned!

Paolo

> Reported-by: wangxiaolong@ucloud.cn
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/io.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/io.c b/block/io.c
> index 1ce62c4..809688b 100644
> --- a/block/io.c
> +++ b/block/io.c
> @@ -2343,8 +2343,6 @@ int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_discard(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
>          return -EROFS;
>      }
>  
> -    bdrv_reset_dirty(bs, sector_num, nb_sectors);
> -
>      /* Do nothing if disabled.  */
>      if (!(bs->open_flags & BDRV_O_UNMAP)) {
>          return 0;
> @@ -2354,6 +2352,8 @@ int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_discard(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
>          return 0;
>      }
>  
> +    bdrv_set_dirty(bs, sector_num, nb_sectors);
> +
>      max_discard = MIN_NON_ZERO(bs->bl.max_discard, BDRV_REQUEST_MAX_SECTORS);
>      while (nb_sectors > 0) {
>          int ret;
>