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authorAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2011-11-14 15:09:45 -0600
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2011-11-21 14:58:48 -0600
commit0f15423c3234335ca0dbeeae6d19db4699faca07 (patch)
tree1850ee9f90d919d1b6209d5046a6246686902f63 /block.h
parent38e0735eb76a1479917ef3501a208d4f70998494 (diff)
block: allow migration to work with image files (v3)
Image files have two types of data: immutable data that describes things like image size, backing files, etc. and mutable data that includes offset and reference count tables. Today, image formats aggressively cache mutable data to improve performance. In some cases, this happens before a guest even starts. When dealing with live migration, since a file is open on two machines, the caching of meta data can lead to data corruption. This patch addresses this by introducing a mechanism to invalidate any cached mutable data a block driver may have which is then used by the live migration code. NB, this still requires coherent shared storage. Addressing migration without coherent shared storage (i.e. NFS) requires additional work. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/block.h b/block.h
index 051a25d8d6..a826059897 100644
--- a/block.h
+++ b/block.h
@@ -197,6 +197,10 @@ BlockDriverAIOCB *bdrv_aio_ioctl(BlockDriverState *bs,
unsigned long int req, void *buf,
BlockDriverCompletionFunc *cb, void *opaque);
+/* Invalidate any cached metadata used by image formats */
+void bdrv_invalidate_cache(BlockDriverState *bs);
+void bdrv_invalidate_cache_all(void);
+
/* Ensure contents are flushed to disk. */
int bdrv_flush(BlockDriverState *bs);
int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_flush(BlockDriverState *bs);