Instead stalling the VCPU while serving a cache flush try to do it
asynchronously. Use our good old helper thread pool to issue an
asynchronous fdatasync for raw-posix. Note that while Linux AIO
implements a fdatasync operation it is not useful for us because
it isn't actually implement in asynchronous fashion.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Add a enable_write_cache flag in the block driver state, and use it to
decide if we claim to have a volatile write cache that needs controlled
flushing from the guest. The flag is off if cache=writethrough is
defined because O_DSYNC guarantees that every write goes to stable
storage, and it is on for cache=none and cache=writeback.
Both scsi-disk and ide now use the new flage, changing from their
defaults of always off (ide) or always on (scsi-disk).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
One performance problem of qcow2 during the initial image growth are
sequential writes that are not cluster aligned. In this case, when a first
requests requires to allocate a new cluster but writes only to the first
couple of sectors in that cluster, the rest of the cluster is zeroed - just
to be overwritten by the following second request that fills up the cluster.
Let's try to merge sequential write requests to the same cluster, so we can
avoid to write the zero padding to the disk in the first place.
As a nice side effect, also other formats take advantage of dealing with less
and larger requests.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This introduces a qemu-img create option for qcow2 which allows the metadata to
be preallocated, i.e. clusters are reserved in the refcount table and L1/L2
tables, but no data is written to them. Metadata is quite small, so this
happens in almost no time.
Especially with qcow2 on virtio this helps to gain a bit of performance during
the initial writes. However, as soon as create a snapshot, we're back to the
normal slow speed, obviously. So this isn't the real fix, but kind of a cheat
while we're still having trouble with qcow2 on virtio.
Note that the option is disabled by default and needs to be specified
explicitly using qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o preallocation=metadata.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The VM state offset is a concept internal to the image format. Replace
the old bdrv_{get,put}_buffer method that require an index into the
image file that is constructed from the VM state offset and an offset
into the vmstate with the bdrv_{load,save}_vmstate that just take an
offset into the VM state.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Add a bdrv_probe_device method to all BlockDriver instances implementing
host devices to move matching of host device types into the actual drivers.
For now we keep exacly the old matching behaviour based on the devices names,
although we really should have better detetion methods based on device
information in the future.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Now that we have a separate aio pool structure we can remove those
aio pool details from BlockDriver.
Every driver supporting AIO now needs to declare a static AIOPool
with the aiocb size and the cancellation method. This cleans up the
current code considerably and will make it cleaner and more obvious
to support two different aio implementations behind a single
BlockDriver.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Add an option to specify the cluster size of a newly created qcow2 image.
Default is 4k which is the same value that was hard-coded before.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Now we can make use of the newly introduced option structures. Instead of
having bdrv_create carry more and more parameters (which are format specific in
most cases), just pass a option structure as defined by the driver itself.
bdrv_create2() contains an emulation of the old interface to simplify the
transition.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
this patch adds a buffer_alignment field to BlockDriverState and
implements a qemu_blockalign function that uses that field to allocate a
memory aligned buffer to be used by the block driver.
buffer_alignment is initialized to 512 but each block driver can set
a different value (at the moment none of them do).
This patch modifies ide.c, block-qcow.c, block-qcow2.c and block.c to
use qemu_blockalign instead of qemu_memalign.
There is only one place left that still uses qemu_memalign to allocate
buffers used by block drivers that is posix-aio-compat:handle_aiocb_rw
because it is not possible to get the BlockDriverState from that
function. However I think it is not important because posix-aio-compat
already deals with driver specific code so it is supposed to know its
own needs.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Introduce a new bdrv_check function pointer for block drivers. Modify qcow2 to
return an error status in check_refcounts(), so it can implement bdrv_check.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Make all AIO requests vectored and defer linearization until the actual
I/O thread. This prepares for using native preadv/pwritev.
Also enables asynchronous direct I/O by handling that case in the I/O thread.
Qcow and qcow2 propably want to be adopted to directly deal with multi-segment
requests, but that can be implemented later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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We now enforce that you cannot write beyond the end of a non-growable file.
qcow2 files are not growable but we rely on them being growable to do
savevm/loadvm. Temporarily allow them to be growable by introducing a new
API specifically for savevm read/write operations.
Reported-by: malc
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Added a backing_format field to BlockDriverState.
Added bdrv_create2 and drv->bdrv_create2 to create an image with
a known backing file format.
Upon bdrv_open2 if backing format is known use it, instead of
probing the (backing) image.
Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Okay, I started looking into how to handle scsi-generic I/O in the
new world order.
I think the best is to use the SG_IO ioctl instead of the read/write
interface as that allows us to support scsi passthrough on disk/cdrom
devices, too. See Hannes patch on the kvm list from August for an
example.
Now that we always do ioctls we don't need another abstraction than
bdrv_ioctl for the synchronous requests for now, and for asynchronous
requests I've added a aio_ioctl abstraction keeping it simple.
Long-term we might want to move the ops to a higher-level abstraction
and let the low-level code fill out the request header, but I'm lazy
enough to leave that to the people trying to support scsi-passthrough
on a non-Linux OS.
Tested lightly by issuing various sg_ commands from sg3-utils in a guest
to a host CDROM device.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Move the AIOCB allocation code to use a dedicate structure, AIOPool. AIOCB
specific information, such as the AIOCB size and cancellation routine, is
moved into the pool.
At present, there is exactly one pool per block format driver, maintaining
the status quo.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Now that scsi generic no longer uses bdrv_pread() and bdrv_pwrite(), we can
drop the corresponding internal APIs, which overlap bdrv_read()/bdrv_write()
and, being byte oriented, are unnatural for a block device.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Add an internal API for the generic block layer to send scsi generic commands
to block format driver. This means block format drivers no longer need
to consider overloaded nb_sectors parameters.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Reading the passwords for encrypted hard disks during early startup is
broken (I guess for quiet a while now):
- No monitor terminal is ready for input at this point
- Forcing all mux'ed terminals into monitor mode can confuse other
users of that channels
To overcome these issues and to lay the ground for a clean decoupling of
monitor terminals, this patch changes the initial password inquiry as
follows:
- Prevent autostart if there is some encrypted disk
- Once the user tries to resume the VM, prompt for all missing
passwords
- Only resume if all passwords were accepted
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Introduce a growable flag that's set by bdrv_file_open(). Block devices should
never be growable, only files that are being used by block devices.
I went through Fabrice's early comments about the patch that was first applied.
While I disagree with that patch, I also disagree with Fabrice's suggestion.
There's no good reason to do the checks in the block drivers themselves. It
just increases the possibility that this bug could show up again. Since we're
calling bdrv_getlength() to determine the length, we're giving the block drivers
a chance to chime in and let us know what range is valid.
Basically, this patch makes the BlockDriver API guarantee that all requests are
within 0..bdrv_getlength() which to me seems like a Good Thing.
What do others think?
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Record PCIDev on the BlockDriverState structure to locate for release
on hot-removal.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Generate an option rom instead of using a hijacked boot sector for kernel
booting. This just requires adding a small option ROM header and a few more
instructions to the boot sector to take over the int19 vector and run our
boot code.
A disk is no longer needed when using -kernel on x86.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Qemu 0.9.1 and earlier does not perform range checks for block device
read or write requests, which allows guest host users with root
privileges to access arbitrary memory and escape the virtual machine.
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Remove QEMU_TOOL. Replace with QEMU_IMG and NEED_CPU_H.
Avoid linking qemu-img against whole system emulatior.
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Christoph Hellwig