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PATCH Superseded Jeff Cody 1 participant 3 messages Feb 28, 2012

v4 of 5 Superseded Latest is v5 →

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v4 cover Group Live Snapshots

This patchset adds the ability to take a snapshot of a group of devices, rather than each device individually. Upon failure of any snapshot, all snapshots taken by the command will be abandoned, and the appropriate failure code returned.

All the changes from v3 to v4 are in patch 1/2. This differs from v3 in that:
* blockdev.c
- QSIMPLEQ_INSERT_TAIL() moved to right after the malloc
* block.c
- tmp.backing_file set as well

Jeff Cody (2):
qapi: Introduce blockdev-group-snapshot-sync command
QMP: Add qmp command for blockdev-group-snapshot-sync

 block.c          |   81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 block.h          |    1 +
 block_int.h      |    6 +++
 blockdev.c       |  132 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qapi-schema.json |   38 +++++++++++++++
 qmp-commands.hx  |   39 ++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 297 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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1.7.9.rc2.1.g69204
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#1 lore raw

PATCH v4 1/2 qapi: Introduce blockdev-group-snapshot-sync command

This is a QAPI/QMP only command to take a snapshot of a group of devices. This is similar to the blockdev-snapshot-sync command, except blockdev-group-snapshot-sync accepts a list devices, filenames, and formats.

It is attempted to keep the snapshot of the group atomic; if the creation or open of any of the new snapshots fails, then all of the new snapshots are abandoned, and the name of the snapshot image that failed is returned. The failure case should not interrupt any operations.

Rather than use bdrv_close() along with a subsequent bdrv_open() to perform the pivot, the original image is never closed and the new image is placed 'in front' of the original image via manipulation of the BlockDriverState fields. Thus, once the new snapshot image has been successfully created, there are no more failure points before pivoting to the new snapshot.

This allows the group of disks to remain consistent with each other, even across snapshot failures.

---
 block.c          |   81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 block.h          |    1 +
 block_int.h      |    6 +++
 blockdev.c       |  132 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qapi-schema.json |   38 +++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
block.c +81 -0
index 3621d11..90232d9 100644
@@ -880,6 +880,87 @@ void bdrv_make_anon(BlockDriverState *bs)
     bs->device_name[0] = '\0';
 }
 
+/*
+ * Add new bs contents at the top of an image chain while the chain is
+ * live, while keeping required fields on the top layer.
+ *
+ * This will modify the BlockDriverState fields, and swap contents
+ * between bs_new and bs_top. Both bs_new and bs_top are modified.
+ *
+ * This function does not create any image files.
+ */
+void bdrv_append(BlockDriverState *bs_new, BlockDriverState *bs_top)
+{
+    BlockDriverState tmp;
+
+    /* the new bs must not be in bdrv_states */
+    bdrv_make_anon(bs_new);
+
+    tmp = *bs_new;
+
+    /* there are some fields that need to stay on the top layer: */
+
+    /* dev info */
+    tmp.dev_ops           = bs_top->dev_ops;
+    tmp.dev_opaque        = bs_top->dev_opaque;
+    tmp.dev               = bs_top->dev;
+    tmp.buffer_alignment  = bs_top->buffer_alignment;
+    tmp.copy_on_read      = bs_top->copy_on_read;
+
+    /* i/o timing parameters */
+    tmp.slice_time        = bs_top->slice_time;
+    tmp.slice_start       = bs_top->slice_start;
+    tmp.slice_end         = bs_top->slice_end;
+    tmp.io_limits         = bs_top->io_limits;
+    tmp.io_base           = bs_top->io_base;
+    tmp.throttled_reqs    = bs_top->throttled_reqs;
+    tmp.block_timer       = bs_top->block_timer;
+    tmp.io_limits_enabled = bs_top->io_limits_enabled;
+
+    /* geometry */
+    tmp.cyls              = bs_top->cyls;
+    tmp.heads             = bs_top->heads;
+    tmp.secs              = bs_top->secs;
+    tmp.translation       = bs_top->translation;
+
+    /* r/w error */
+    tmp.on_read_error     = bs_top->on_read_error;
+    tmp.on_write_error    = bs_top->on_write_error;
+
+    /* i/o status */
+    tmp.iostatus_enabled  = bs_top->iostatus_enabled;
+    tmp.iostatus          = bs_top->iostatus;
+
+    /* keep the same entry in bdrv_states */
+    pstrcpy(tmp.device_name, sizeof(tmp.device_name), bs_top->device_name);
+    tmp.list = bs_top->list;
+
+    /* The contents of 'tmp' will become bs_top, as we are
+     * swapping bs_new and bs_top contents. */
+    tmp.backing_hd = bs_new;
+    pstrcpy(tmp.backing_file, sizeof(tmp.backing_file), bs_top->filename);
+
+    /* swap contents of the fixed new bs and the current top */
+    *bs_new = *bs_top;
+    *bs_top = tmp;
+
+    /* clear the copied fields in the new backing file */
+    bdrv_detach_dev(bs_new, bs_new->dev);
+
+    qemu_co_queue_init(&bs_new->throttled_reqs);
+    memset(&bs_new->io_base,   0, sizeof(bs_new->io_base));
+    memset(&bs_new->io_limits, 0, sizeof(bs_new->io_limits));
+    bdrv_iostatus_disable(bs_new);
+
+    /* we don't use bdrv_io_limits_disable() for this, because we don't want
+     * to affect or delete the block_timer, as it has been moved to bs_top */
+    bs_new->io_limits_enabled = false;
+    bs_new->block_timer       = NULL;
+    bs_new->slice_time        = 0;
+    bs_new->slice_start       = 0;
+    bs_new->slice_end         = 0;
+}
+
 void bdrv_delete(BlockDriverState *bs)
 {
     assert(!bs->dev);
block.h +1 -0
index cae289b..190a780 100644
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ int bdrv_create(BlockDriver *drv, const char* filename,
 int bdrv_create_file(const char* filename, QEMUOptionParameter *options);
 BlockDriverState *bdrv_new(const char *device_name);
 void bdrv_make_anon(BlockDriverState *bs);
+void bdrv_append(BlockDriverState *bs_new, BlockDriverState *bs_top);
 void bdrv_delete(BlockDriverState *bs);
 int bdrv_parse_cache_flags(const char *mode, int *flags);
 int bdrv_file_open(BlockDriverState **pbs, const char *filename, int flags);
block_int.h +6 -0
index 7be2988..5edc8c1 100644
@@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ struct BlockDriver {
     QLIST_ENTRY(BlockDriver) list;
 };
 
+/*
+ * Note: the function bdrv_append() copies and swaps contents of
+ * BlockDriverStates, so if you add new fields to this struct, please
+ * inspect bdrv_append() to determine if the new fields need to be
+ * copied as well.
+ */
 struct BlockDriverState {
     int64_t total_sectors; /* if we are reading a disk image, give its
                               size in sectors */
blockdev.c +132 -0

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qapi-schema.json +38 -0
index d02ee86..165e22e 100644
@@ -1107,6 +1107,44 @@
 { 'command': 'block_resize', 'data': { 'device': 'str', 'size': 'int' }}
 
 ##
+# @SnapshotDev
+#
+# @device:  the name of the device to generate the snapshot from.
+#
+# @snapshot-file: the target of the new image. A new file will be created.
+#
+# @format: #optional the format of the snapshot image, default is 'qcow2'.
+##
+{ 'type': 'SnapshotDev',
+  'data': {'device': 'str', 'snapshot-file': 'str', '*format': 'str' } }
+
+##
+# @blockdev-group-snapshot-sync
+#
+# Generates a synchronous snapshot of a group of one or more block devices,
+# as atomically as possible.  If the snapshot of any device in the group
+# fails, then the entire group snapshot will be abandoned and the
+# appropriate error returned.
+#
+#  List of:
+#  @SnapshotDev: information needed for the device snapshot
+#
+# Returns: nothing on success
+#          If @device is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound
+#          If @device is busy, DeviceInUse will be returned
+#          If @snapshot-file can't be created, OpenFileFailed
+#          If @snapshot-file can't be opened, OpenFileFailed
+#          If @format is invalid, InvalidBlockFormat
+#
+# Note: The group snapshot attempt returns failure on the first snapshot
+# device failure.  Therefore, there will be only one device or snapshot file
+# returned in an error condition, and subsequent devices will not have been
+# attempted.
+##
+{ 'command': 'blockdev-group-snapshot-sync',
+  'data': { 'devlist': [ 'SnapshotDev' ] } }
+
+##
 # @blockdev-snapshot-sync
 #
 # Generates a synchronous snapshot of a block device.
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1.7.9.rc2.1.g69204
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#2 lore raw

PATCH v4 2/2 QMP: Add qmp command for blockdev-group-snapshot-sync

In reply to Jeff Cody

This adds the QMP command for blockdev-group-snapshot-sync. It takes an array in as the input, for the argument devlist. The array consists of the following elements:

+ device: device to snapshot. e.g. "ide-hd0", "virtio0"
+ snapshot-file: path & file for the snapshot image. e.g. "/tmp/file.img"
+ format: snapshot format. e.g., "qcow2". Optional

There is no HMP equivalent for the command.

---
 qmp-commands.hx |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
qmp-commands.hx +39 -0
index b5e2ab8..15d35c1 100644
@@ -665,6 +665,45 @@ EQMP
         .args_type  = "device:B",
         .mhandler.cmd_new = qmp_marshal_input_block_job_cancel,
     },
+    {
+        .name       = "blockdev-group-snapshot-sync",
+        .args_type  = "devlist:O",
+        .params  = "device:B,snapshot-file:s,format:s?",
+        .mhandler.cmd_new = qmp_marshal_input_blockdev_group_snapshot_sync,
+    },
+
+SQMP
+blockdev-group-snapshot-sync
+----------------------
+
+Synchronous snapshot of one or more block devices.  A list array input
+is accepted, that contains the device and snapshot file information for
+each device in group. The default format, if not specified, is qcow2.
+
+If there is any failure creating or opening a new snapshot, all snapshots
+for the group are abandoned, and the original disks pre-snapshot attempt
+are used.
+
+
+Arguments:
+
+devlist array:
+    - "device": device name to snapshot (json-string)
+    - "snapshot-file": name of new image file (json-string)
+    - "format": format of new image (json-string, optional)
+
+Example:
+
+-> { "execute": "blockdev-group-snapshot-sync", "arguments":
+                      { "devlist": [{ "device": "ide-hd0",
+                                      "snapshot-file": "/some/place/my-image",
+                                      "format": "qcow2" },
+                                    { "device": "ide-hd1",
+                                      "snapshot-file": "/some/place/my-image2",
+                                      "format": "qcow2" }] } }
+<- { "return": {} }
+
+EQMP
 
     {
         .name       = "blockdev-snapshot-sync",
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