[PATCH 06/10] Add initial docs about the lock managers

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+<html>
+  <body>
+    <h1>Resource Lock Manager</h1>
+
+    <ul id="toc"></ul>
+
+    <p>
+      This page describes the design of the resource lock manager
+      that is used for locking disk images, to ensure exclusive
+      access to content.
+    </p>
+
+    <h2><a name="goals">Goals</a></h2>
+
+    <p>
+      The high level goal is to prevent the same disk image being
+      used by more than one QEMU instance at a time (unless the
+      disk is marked as sharable, or readonly). The scenarios
+      to be prevented are thus:
+    </p>
+
+    <ol>
+      <li>
+        Two different guests running configured to point at the
+        same disk image.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        One guest being started more than once on two different
+        machines due to admin mistake
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        One guest being started more than once on a single machine
+        due to libvirt driver bug on a single machine.
+      </li>
+    </ol>
+
+    <h2><a name="requirement">Requirements</a></h2>
+
+    <p>
+      The high level goal leads to a set of requirements
+      for the lock manager design
+    </p>
+
+    <ol>
+      <li>
+        A lock must be held on a disk whenever a QEMU process
+        has the disk open
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        The lock scheme must allow QEMU to be configured with
+        readonly, shared write, or exclusive writable disks
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        A lock handover must be performed during the migration
+        process where 2 QEMU processes will have the same disk
+        open concurrently.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        The lock manager must be able to identify and kill the
+        process accessing the resource if the lock is revoked.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        Locks can be acquired for arbitrary VM related resources,
+        as determined by the management application.
+      </li>
+    </ol>
+
+    <h2><a name="design">Design</a></h2>
+
+    <p>
+      Within a lock manager the following series of operations
+      will need to be supported.
+    </p>
+
+    <ul>
+      <li>
+        <strong>Register object</strong>
+        Register the identity of an object against which
+        locks will be acquired
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <strong>Add resource</strong>
+        Associate a resource with an object for future
+        lock acquisition / release
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <strong>Acquire locks</strong>
+        Acquire the locks for all resources associated
+        with the object
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <strong>Release locks</strong>
+        Release the locks for all resources associated
+        with the object
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        <strong>Inquire locks</strong>
+        Get a representation of the state of the locks
+        for all resources associated with the object
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <h2><a name="impl">Plugin Implementations</a></h2>
+
+    <p>
+      Lock manager implementations are provided as LGPLv2+
+      licensed, dlopen()able library modules. The plugins
+      will be loadable from the following location:
+    </p>
+
+    <pre>
+/usr/{lib,lib64}/libvirt/lock_manager/$NAME.so
+</pre>
+
+    <p>
+      The lock manager plugin must export a single ELF
+      symbol named <code>virLockDriverImpl</code>, which is
+      a static instance of the <code>virLockDriver</code>
+      struct. The struct is defined in the header file
+    </p>
+
+    <pre>
+      #include &lt;libvirt/plugins/lock_manager.h&gt;
+    </pre>
+
+    <p>
+      All callbacks in the struct must be initialized
+      to non-NULL pointers. The semantics of each
+      callback are defined in the API docs embedded
+      in the previously mentioned header file
+    </p>
+
+    <h2><a name="qemuIntegrate">QEMU Driver integration</a></h2>
+
+    <p>
+      With the QEMU driver, the lock plugin will be set
+      in the <code>/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf</code> configuration
+      file by specifying the lock manager name.
+    </p>
+
+    <pre>
+      lockManager="sanlock"
+    </pre>
+
+    <p>
+      By default the lock manager will be a 'no op' implementation
+      for backwards compatibility
+    </p>
+
+    <h2><a name="usagePatterns">Lock usage patterns</a></h2>
+
+    <p>
+      The following psuedo code illustrates the common
+      patterns of operations invoked on the lock
+      manager plugin callbacks.
+    </p>
+
+    <h3><a name="usageLockAcquire">Lock acquisition</a></h3>
+
+    <p>
+      Initial lock acquisition will be performed from the
+      process that is to own the lock. This is typically
+      the QEMU child process, in between the fork+exec
+      pairing. When adding further resources on the fly,
+      to an existing object holding locks, this will be
+      done from the libvirtd process.
+    </p>
+
+    <pre>
+      virLockManagerParam params[] = {
+        { .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UUID,
+          .key = "uuid",
+        },
+        { .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_STRING,
+          .key = "name",
+          .value = { .str = dom->def->name },
+        },
+        { .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UINT,
+          .key = "id",
+          .value = { .i = dom->def->id },
+        },
+        { .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UINT,
+          .key = "pid",
+          .value = { .i = dom->pid },
+        },
+      };
+      mgr = virLockManagerNew(lockPlugin,
+                              VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_TYPE_DOMAIN,
+                              ARRAY_CARDINALITY(params),
+                              params,
+                              0)));
+
+      foreach (initial disks)
+          virLockManagerAddResource(mgr,
+                                    VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_RESOURCE_TYPE_DISK,
+                                    $path, 0, NULL, $flags);
+
+      if (virLockManagerAcquire(lock, NULL, 0) &lt; 0);
+        ...abort...
+    </pre>
+
+    <h3><a name="usageLockAttach">Lock release</a></h3>
+
+    <p>
+      The locks are all implicitly released when the process
+      that acquired them exits, however, a process may
+      voluntarily give up the lock by running
+    </p>
+
+    <pre>
+      char *state = NULL;
+      virLockManagerParam params[] = {
+        { .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UUID,
+          .key = "uuid",
+        },
+        { .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_STRING,
+          .key = "name",
+          .value = { .str = dom->def->name },
+        },
+        { .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UINT,
+          .key = "id",
+          .value = { .i = dom->def->id },
+        },
+        { .type = VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_PARAM_TYPE_UINT,
+          .key = "pid",
+          .value = { .i = dom->pid },
+        },
+      };
+      mgr = virLockManagerNew(lockPlugin,
+                              VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_TYPE_DOMAIN,
+                              ARRAY_CARDINALITY(params),
+                              params,
+                              0)));
+
+      foreach (initial disks)
+          virLockManagerAddResource(mgr,
+                                    VIR_LOCK_MANAGER_RESOURCE_TYPE_DISK,
+                                    $path, 0, NULL, $flags);
+
+      virLockManagerRelease(mgr, &amp; state, 0);
+    </pre>
+
+    <p>
+      The returned state string can be passed to the
+      <code>virLockManagerAcquire</code> method to
+      later re-acquire the exact same locks. This
+      state transfer is commonly used when performing
+      live migration of virtual machines. By validating
+      the state the lock manager can ensure no other
+      VM has re-acquire the same locks on a different
+      host. The state can also be obtained without
+      releasing the locks, by calling the
+      <code>virLockManagerInquire</code> method.
+    </p>
+
+  </body>
+</html>
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                 <a href="internals/command.html">Spawning commands</a>
                 <span>Spawning commands from libvirt driver code</span>
               </li>
+              <li>
+                <a href="internals/locking.html">Lock managers</a>
+                <span>Use lock managers to protect disk content</span>
+              </li>
             </ul>
           </li>
           <li>
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1.7.4.4

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