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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] block: Add bdrv_make_empty()
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:51:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <138748c4-3316-ec43-00dd-22b02dac5d7c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200429141126.85159-2-mreitz@redhat.com>

On 4/29/20 9:11 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
> Right now, all users of bdrv_make_empty() call the BlockDriver method
> directly.  That is not only bad style, it is also wrong, unless the
> caller has a BdrvChild with a WRITE or WRITE_UNCHANGED permission.
> (WRITE_UNCHANGED suffices, because callers generally use this function
> to clear a node with a backing file after a commit operation.)
> 
> Introduce bdrv_make_empty() that verifies that it does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
>   include/block/block.h |  1 +
>   block.c               | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>   2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-29 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-29 14:11 [PATCH v2 0/4] block: Do not call BlockDriver.bdrv_make_empty() directly Max Reitz
2020-04-29 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] block: Add bdrv_make_empty() Max Reitz
2020-04-29 14:51   ` Eric Blake [this message]
2020-04-29 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] block: Use bdrv_make_empty() where possible Max Reitz
2020-04-29 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] block: Add blk_make_empty() Max Reitz
2020-04-29 14:52   ` Eric Blake
2020-04-29 14:11 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] block: Use blk_make_empty() after commits Max Reitz
2020-04-29 14:17   ` Max Reitz
2020-04-29 14:55   ` Eric Blake
2020-04-29 19:07 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] block: Do not call BlockDriver.bdrv_make_empty() directly no-reply
2020-04-29 19:11 ` no-reply
2020-04-29 19:15 ` no-reply
2020-04-29 23:37 ` no-reply
2020-04-29 23:41 ` no-reply
2020-05-14 13:08 ` Kevin Wolf
2020-05-15 10:36   ` Kevin Wolf

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