When you cancel an in-progress live block operation with QMP `block-job-cancel`, it emits the event: BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED. However, when `block-job-cancel` is issued after `drive-mirror` has indicated (by emitting the event BLOCK_JOB_READY) that the source and destination remain synchronized:
[...] # Snip `drive-mirror` invocation & outputs { "execute":"block-job-cancel", "arguments":{ "device":"virtio0" } } {"return": {}} It (`block-job-cancel`) will counterintuitively emit the event 'BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED': { "timestamp":{ "seconds":1510678024, "microseconds":526240 }, "event":"BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED", "data":{ "device":"virtio0", "len":41126400, "offset":41126400, "speed":0, "type":"mirror" } } But this is expected behaviour, where the _COMPLETED event indicates that synchronization has successfully ended (and the destination has a point-in-time copy, which is at the time of cancel). So add a small note to this effect. (Thanks: Max Reitz for reminding me of this on IRC.) Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kcham...@redhat.com> --- Changes in v2: - "Note:" seems to be a special construct in Patchew, my usage caused a build failure. So do: s/Note:/Note that/ - Add the missing 'Signed-off-by' --- qapi/block-core.json | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json index ab96e348e6317bb42769ae20f4a4519bac02e93a..4ecfd1fbc5bc231c69da15d489c44e3e8b0706a5 100644 --- a/qapi/block-core.json +++ b/qapi/block-core.json @@ -2065,6 +2065,14 @@ # BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED event. Before that happens the job is still visible when # enumerated using query-block-jobs. # +# Note that the 'block-job-cancel' command will emit the event +# BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED if you issue it ('block-job-cancel') after 'drive-mirror' +# has indicated (by emitting the event BLOCK_JOB_READY) that the source and +# destination remain synchronized. In this case, the BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED +# event indicates that synchronization (from 'drive-mirror') has successfully +# ended and the destination now has a point-in-time copy, which is at the time +# of cancel. +# # For streaming, the image file retains its backing file unless the streaming # operation happens to complete just as it is being cancelled. A new streaming # operation can be started at a later time to finish copying all data from the -- 2.9.5