From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/3] block: Introduce BDRV_O_NO_BACKING
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:26:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4E56A7.4040901@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263297318-10912-2-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com>
On 01/12/2010 05:55 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> If an image references a backing file that doesn't exist, qemu-img info fails
> to open this image. Exactly in this case the info would be valuable, though:
> the user might want to find out which file is missing.
>
> This patch introduces a BDRV_O_NO_BACKING flag to ignore the backing file when
> opening the image. qemu-img info is the first user and provides info now even
> if the backing file is invalid.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf<kwolf@redhat.com>
>
Applied all. Thanks.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> ---
> block.c | 4 ++--
> block.h | 1 +
> qemu-img.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
> index 30ae2b1..994109e 100644
> --- a/block.c
> +++ b/block.c
> @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ int bdrv_open2(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *filename, int flags,
> unlink(filename);
> }
> #endif
> - if (bs->backing_file[0] != '\0') {
> + if ((flags& BDRV_O_NO_BACKING) == 0&& bs->backing_file[0] != '\0') {
> /* if there is a backing file, use it */
> BlockDriver *back_drv = NULL;
> bs->backing_hd = bdrv_new("");
> @@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@ const char *bdrv_get_encrypted_filename(BlockDriverState *bs)
> void bdrv_get_backing_filename(BlockDriverState *bs,
> char *filename, int filename_size)
> {
> - if (!bs->backing_hd) {
> + if (!bs->backing_file) {
> pstrcpy(filename, filename_size, "");
> } else {
> pstrcpy(filename, filename_size, bs->backing_file);
> diff --git a/block.h b/block.h
> index fa51ddf..f660d5f 100644
> --- a/block.h
> +++ b/block.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ typedef struct QEMUSnapshotInfo {
> #define BDRV_O_NOCACHE 0x0020 /* do not use the host page cache */
> #define BDRV_O_CACHE_WB 0x0040 /* use write-back caching */
> #define BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO 0x0080 /* use native AIO instead of the thread pool */
> +#define BDRV_O_NO_BACKING 0x0100 /* don't open the backing file */
>
> #define BDRV_O_CACHE_MASK (BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
> index 1d97f2e..5ad88bf 100644
> --- a/qemu-img.c
> +++ b/qemu-img.c
> @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ static int img_info(int argc, char **argv)
> } else {
> drv = NULL;
> }
> - if (bdrv_open2(bs, filename, BRDV_O_FLAGS, drv)< 0) {
> + if (bdrv_open2(bs, filename, BRDV_O_FLAGS | BDRV_O_NO_BACKING, drv)< 0) {
> error("Could not open '%s'", filename);
> }
> bdrv_get_format(bs, fmt_name, sizeof(fmt_name));
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-13 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-12 11:55 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] Change the backing file of images Kevin Wolf
2010-01-12 11:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/3] block: Introduce BDRV_O_NO_BACKING Kevin Wolf
2010-01-13 23:26 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-01-12 11:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/3] block: Add bdrv_change_backing_file Kevin Wolf
2010-01-12 11:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 3/3] qemu-img rebase Kevin Wolf
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