block: add bdrv_measure() API

bdrv_measure() provides a conservative maximum for the size of a new
image.  This information is handy if storage needs to be allocated (e.g.
a SAN or an LVM volume) ahead of time.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: 20170705125738.8777-2-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 913bb43289..162e9d9087 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -3463,6 +3463,41 @@ int64_t bdrv_get_allocated_file_size(BlockDriverState *bs)
     return -ENOTSUP;
 }
 
+/*
+ * bdrv_measure:
+ * @drv: Format driver
+ * @opts: Creation options for new image
+ * @in_bs: Existing image containing data for new image (may be NULL)
+ * @errp: Error object
+ * Returns: A #BlockMeasureInfo (free using qapi_free_BlockMeasureInfo())
+ *          or NULL on error
+ *
+ * Calculate file size required to create a new image.
+ *
+ * If @in_bs is given then space for allocated clusters and zero clusters
+ * from that image are included in the calculation.  If @opts contains a
+ * backing file that is shared by @in_bs then backing clusters may be omitted
+ * from the calculation.
+ *
+ * If @in_bs is NULL then the calculation includes no allocated clusters
+ * unless a preallocation option is given in @opts.
+ *
+ * Note that @in_bs may use a different BlockDriver from @drv.
+ *
+ * If an error occurs the @errp pointer is set.
+ */
+BlockMeasureInfo *bdrv_measure(BlockDriver *drv, QemuOpts *opts,
+                               BlockDriverState *in_bs, Error **errp)
+{
+    if (!drv->bdrv_measure) {
+        error_setg(errp, "Block driver '%s' does not support size measurement",
+                   drv->format_name);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    return drv->bdrv_measure(opts, in_bs, errp);
+}
+
 /**
  * Return number of sectors on success, -errno on error.
  */