On 09/13/2012 12:12 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 13/09/2012 17:49, Jeff Cody ha scritto:
>> Block drivers should always open the files in writeback mode (see commit
>> e1e9b0ac), so raw-posix/raw-win32 should not parse the BDRV_O_CACHE_WB
>> flag.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jc...@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> block/raw-posix.c | 3 ---
>> block/raw-win32.c | 3 ---
>> 2 files changed, 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/block/raw-posix.c b/block/raw-posix.c
>> index 7d3ac9d..4a1047c 100644
>> --- a/block/raw-posix.c
>> +++ b/block/raw-posix.c
>> @@ -202,9 +202,6 @@ static void raw_parse_flags(int bdrv_flags, int
>> *open_flags)
>> if ((bdrv_flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE)) {
>> *open_flags |= O_DIRECT;
>> }
>> - if (!(bdrv_flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)) {
>> - *open_flags |= O_DSYNC;
>> - }
>> }
>>
>> static int raw_set_aio(void **aio_ctx, int *use_aio, int bdrv_flags)
>> diff --git a/block/raw-win32.c b/block/raw-win32.c
>> index 335c06a..78c8306 100644
>> --- a/block/raw-win32.c
>> +++ b/block/raw-win32.c
>> @@ -92,9 +92,6 @@ static void raw_parse_flags(int flags, int *access_flags,
>> DWORD *overlapped)
>> if (flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE) {
>> *overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING;
>> }
>> - if (!(flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)) {
>> - *overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH;
>> - }
>> }
>>
>> static int raw_open(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *filename, int flags)
>>
>
> Why does this matter? If raw-posix was opened directly (i.e. without
> the bs->file indirection) this would cause a writethrough file to be
> incorrectly opened as writeback.
>
> Paolo
>
The problem this patch was trying to work around is that
bdrv_open_common() forces BDRV_O_CACHE_WB (commit e1e9b0ac), but that
setting is not preserved in bs->open_flags, so it is lost on a reopen.
Is there a scenario currently that has raw-posix opened directly as a
writethrough file, or were you more concerned with future use?
