Re: [PATCH 3/8] backup: Introduce virDomainCheckpointPtr

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On 06/26/2018 02:03 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:42 PM Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Prepare for introducing a bunch of new public APIs related to
backup checkpoints by first introducing a new internal type
and errors associated with that type.  Checkpoints are modeled
heavily after virDomainSnapshotPtr (both represent a point in
time of the guest), although a snapshot exists with the intent
of rolling back to that state, while a checkpoint exists to
make it possible to create an incremental backup at a later
time.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-snapshot.h |  8 ++--
  include/libvirt/libvirt.h                 |  2 +
  include/libvirt/virterror.h               |  5 ++-
  src/datatypes.c                           | 62
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
  src/datatypes.h                           | 31 +++++++++++++++-
  src/libvirt_private.syms                  |  2 +
  src/util/virerror.c                       | 15 +++++++-
  7 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-snapshot.h
b/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-snapshot.h
index e5a893a767..ff1e890cfc 100644
--- a/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-snapshot.h
+++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain-snapshot.h
@@ -31,15 +31,17 @@
  /**
   * virDomainSnapshot:
   *
- * a virDomainSnapshot is a private structure representing a snapshot of
- * a domain.
+ * A virDomainSnapshot is a private structure representing a snapshot of
+ * a domain.  A snapshot captures the state of the domain at a point in
+ * time, with the intent that the guest can be reverted back to that
+ * state at a later time.


The extra context is very nice...


   */
  typedef struct _virDomainSnapshot virDomainSnapshot;

  /**
   * virDomainSnapshotPtr:
   *
- * a virDomainSnapshotPtr is pointer to a virDomainSnapshot private
structure,
+ * A virDomainSnapshotPtr is pointer to a virDomainSnapshot private
structure,
   * and is the type used to reference a domain snapshot in the API.
   */


But I think users of this API would like to find it here, explaining the
public
type.

That's a pre-existing documentation issue (probably worth a separate cleanup patch to a lot of files, if it really does render better to tie the details to the 'Ptr' typedef rather than the opaque typedef).

@@ -321,6 +322,8 @@ typedef enum {
                                             to guest-sync command
(DEPRECATED)*/
      VIR_ERR_LIBSSH = 98,                /* error in libssh transport
driver */
      VIR_ERR_DEVICE_MISSING = 99,        /* fail to find the desired
device */
+    VIR_ERR_INVALID_DOMAIN_CHECKPOINT = 100,/* invalid domain checkpoint
*/


What is invalid checkpoint? It would be nice if there would not be
such thing.

Copied from the existing VIR_ERR_INVALID_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT. Sadly, there MUST be such a thing - it exists to (try and) catch bugs such as:

void *ptr = virAPI1() (which returns virDomainPtr)
virDomainCheckpointAPI2(ptr, ...) (which expects virDomainCheckpointPtr)

where you are passing in the wrong type, or such as:

virConnectPtr conn = virAPI1()
virDomainCheckpointPtr chk = virAPI2(conn)
virConnectClose(conn)
virDomainCheckpointAPI3(chk)

where you are passing in the right type but wrong order because the checkpoint depends on a connection that you have closed


Also the comment does not add anything.

Such is the life of copy-and-paste. My excuse is that the code I copied from has the same sort of poor comment.

@@ -292,6 +293,21 @@ extern virClassPtr virAdmClientClass;
          } \
      } while (0)

+# define virCheckDomainCheckpointReturn(obj, retval) \
+    do { \
+        virDomainCheckpointPtr _check = (obj); \
+        if (!virObjectIsClass(_check, virDomainCheckpointClass) || \
+            !virObjectIsClass(_check->domain, virDomainClass) || \
+            !virObjectIsClass(_check->domain->conn, virConnectClass)) { \
+            virReportErrorHelper(VIR_FROM_DOMAIN_CHECKPOINT, \
+                                 VIR_ERR_INVALID_DOMAIN_CHECKPOINT, \
+                                 __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, \
+                                 __FUNCTION__); \


I guess that this is invalid domain checkpoint. Isn't this a generic
error, providing a pointer of the wrong type?

Yes, except that libvirt already has the practice of distinguishing error messages according to which type was expected.

@@ -712,6 +739,8 @@ virStreamPtr virGetStream(virConnectPtr conn);
  virNWFilterPtr virGetNWFilter(virConnectPtr conn,
                                const char *name,
                                const unsigned char *uuid);
+virDomainCheckpointPtr virGetDomainCheckpoint(virDomainPtr domain,
+                                              const char *name);


I guess this implemented and documented elsewhere.

This is a function for internal use only; it is not exported as a public function, but exists to mirror...




  virDomainSnapshotPtr virGetDomainSnapshot(virDomainPtr domain,
                                            const char *name);

...this existing snapshot function with the exact same amount of zero comments.

It was implemented in this patch, in src/datatypes.c.

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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