From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Restore total_sectors value in save_vmstate
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:52:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131024095207.GB7385@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52680164.1090708@redhat.com>
Am 23.10.2013 um 19:03 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> On 2013-10-21 22:36, Eric Blake wrote:
> >On 10/20/2013 07:28 PM, Max Reitz wrote:
> >>Since df2a6f29a5, bdrv_co_do_writev increases the total_sectors value of
> >>a growable block devices on writes after the current end. This leads to
> >>the virtual disk apparently growing in qcow2_save_vmstate, which in turn
> >>affects the disk size captured by the internal snapshot taken directly
> >>afterwards through e.g. the HMP savevm command. Such a "grown" snapshot
> >>cannot be loaded after reopening the qcow2 image, since its disk size
> >>differs from the actual virtual disk size (writing a VM state does not
> >>actually increase the virtual disk size).
> >>
> >>Fix this by restoring total_sectors at the end of qcow2_save_vmstate.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
> >>---
> >> block/qcow2.c | 5 +++++
> >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >>
> >>@@ -1946,6 +1947,10 @@ static int qcow2_save_vmstate(BlockDriverState *bs, QEMUIOVector *qiov,
> >> bs->growable = 1;
> >> ret = bdrv_pwritev(bs, qcow2_vm_state_offset(s) + pos, qiov);
> >> bs->growable = growable;
> >>+ // bdrv_co_do_writev will have increased the total_sectors value to include
> >>+ // the VM state - the VM state is however not an actual part of the block
> >>+ // device, therefore, we need to restore the old value.
> >>+ bs->total_sectors = total_sectors;
> >It looks like // comments aren't forbidden, but also uncommon; I don't
> >know if /**/ would be better. At any rate:
>
> Ah, right, sorry, I forgot.
Thanks, fixed up the command and applied to the block branch.
Kevin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-24 9:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-20 18:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qcow2: Restore total_sectors value in save_vmstate Max Reitz
2013-10-21 20:36 ` Eric Blake
2013-10-23 17:03 ` Max Reitz
2013-10-24 9:52 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20131024095207.GB7385@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com \
--to=kwolf@redhat.com \
--cc=mreitz@redhat.com \
--cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
--cc=stefanha@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).