Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] blockjob: allow omitted arguments to QMP block-commit

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On 06/24/14 01:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> We are about to turn on support for active block commit.  Although
> qemu 2.0 was the first version to mostly support it, that version
> mis-handles 0-length files, and doesn't have anything available for
> easy probing.  But qemu 2.1 fixed bugs, and made life simpler by
> letting the 'top' argument be optional.  Unless someone begs for
> active commit with qemu 2.0, for now we are just going to enable
> it only by probing for qemu 2.1 behavior (anyone backporting active
> commit can also backport the optional argument behavior).
> 
> Although all our actual uses of block-commit supply arguments for
> both base and top, we can omit both arguments and use a bogus
> device string to trigger an interesting behavior in qemu.  All QMP
> commands first do argument validation, failing with GenericError
> if a mandatory argument is missing.  Once that passes, the code
> in the specific command gets to do further checking, and the qemu
> developers made sure that if device is the only supplied argument,
> then the block-commit code will look up the device first, with a
> failure of DeviceNotFound, before attempting any further argument
> validation (most other validations fail with GenericError).  Thus,
> the category of error class can reliably be used to decipher
> whether the top argument was optional, which in turn implies a
> working active commit.  Since we expect our bogus device string to
> trigger an error either way, the code is written to return a
> distinct return value without spamming the logs.
> 
> * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h (qemuMonitorSupportsActiveCommit): New
> prototype.
> * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c (qemuMonitorSupportsActiveCommit):
> Implement it.
> * src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h (qemuMonitorJSONBlockCommit):
> Allow NULL for top and base, for probing purposes.
> * src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c (qemuMonitorJSONBlockCommit):
> Likewise, implementing the probe.
> * tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c (mymain): Enable...
> (testQemuMonitorJSONqemuMonitorSupportsActiveCommit): ...a new test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c      | 12 +++++++++++
>  src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h      |  1 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h |  3 +--
>  tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c  | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 

ACK,

Peter


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