Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Storage: Introduce shadow vol for refresh while the main vol builds.

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On Tuesday 30 June 2015 06:20 PM, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 05:05:11PM +0530, Prerna Saxena wrote:
>> Libvirt periodically refreshes all volumes in a storage pool, including
>> the volumes being cloned.
>> While cloning a storage volume from parent, we drop pool locks. Subsequent
>> volume refresh sometimes changes allocation for an ongoing copy, and leads
>> to corrupt images.
>> Fix: Introduce a shadow volume that isolates the volume object under refresh
>> from the base which has a copy ongoing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  src/storage/storage_driver.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
> ACK
>
>> diff --git a/src/storage/storage_driver.c b/src/storage/storage_driver.c
>> index 57060ab..41de8df 100644
>> --- a/src/storage/storage_driver.c
>> +++ b/src/storage/storage_driver.c
>> @@ -1898,7 +1898,7 @@ storageVolCreateXMLFrom(virStoragePoolPtr obj,
>>  {
>>      virStoragePoolObjPtr pool, origpool = NULL;
>>      virStorageBackendPtr backend;
>> -    virStorageVolDefPtr origvol = NULL, newvol = NULL;
>> +    virStorageVolDefPtr origvol = NULL, newvol = NULL, shadowvol = NULL;
>>      virStorageVolPtr ret = NULL, volobj = NULL;
>>      unsigned long long allocation;
>>      int buildret;
>> @@ -2010,6 +2010,15 @@ storageVolCreateXMLFrom(virStoragePoolPtr obj,
>>      if (backend->createVol(obj->conn, pool, newvol) < 0)
>>          goto cleanup;
>>  
>> +    /* Make a shallow copy of the 'defined' volume definition, since the
>> +     * original allocation value will change as the user polls 'info',
>> +     * but we only need the initial requested values
>> +     */
>> +    if (VIR_ALLOC(shadowvol) < 0)
>> +        goto cleanup;
>> +
>> +    memcpy(shadowvol, newvol, sizeof(*newvol));
>> +
>>      pool->volumes.objs[pool->volumes.count++] = newvol;
>>      volobj = virGetStorageVol(obj->conn, pool->def->name, newvol->name,
>>                                newvol->key, NULL, NULL);
>> @@ -2029,7 +2038,7 @@ storageVolCreateXMLFrom(virStoragePoolPtr obj,
>>          virStoragePoolObjUnlock(origpool);
>>      }
>>  
>> -    buildret = backend->buildVolFrom(obj->conn, pool, newvol, origvol, flags);
>> +    buildret = backend->buildVolFrom(obj->conn, pool, shadowvol, origvol, flags);
>>  
> newvol->target.allocation should also use the value from shadowvol.
> I have made the adjustment and pushed the patch.
>
> Jan

Hi Jan,
Thanks.
Could you also take a look at the second patch in this series ?

Regards,

-- 
Prerna Saxena

Linux Technology Centre,
IBM Systems and Technology Lab,
Bangalore, India

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