Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/6] replication: add shared-disk and shared-disk-id options

[Hailiang Zhang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>]

On 2017/2/28 1:10, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:47:56AM +0800, zhanghailiang wrote:
>> @@ -119,12 +136,31 @@ static int replication_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options,
>>                      "The option mode's value should be primary or secondary");
>>           goto fail;
>>       }
>> +    s->is_shared_disk = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, REPLICATION_SHARED_DISK,
>> +                                          false);
>> +    if (s->is_shared_disk && (s->mode == REPLICATION_MODE_PRIMARY)) {
>> +        shared_disk_id = qemu_opt_get(opts, REPLICATION_SHARED_DISK_ID);
>> +        if (!shared_disk_id) {
>> +            error_setg(&local_err, "Missing shared disk blk option");
>> +            goto fail;
>> +        }
>> +        s->shared_disk_id = g_strdup(shared_disk_id);
>> +        blk = blk_by_name(s->shared_disk_id);
>> +        if (!blk) {
>> +            error_setg(&local_err, "There is no %s block", s->shared_disk_id);
>> +            goto fail;
>> +        }
>> +        /* We can't access root member of BlockBackend directly */
>> +        tmp_bs = blk_bs(blk);
>> +        s->primary_disk = QLIST_FIRST(&tmp_bs->parents);
>
> Why is this necessary?
>
> We already have the BlockBackend for the primary disk.  I'm not sure why
> the BdrvChild is needed.
>

Er, the helper backup_job_create() needs the BlockDriverState for the primary disk,
besides, we want to make it same with 'secondary_disk' in struct BDRVReplicationState.

Thanks.
Hailiang

> Stefan
>