[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 10/21] block: make bdrv_has_zero_init return false for copy-on-write-images

[Paolo Bonzini]

This helps implementing is_allocated on top of get_block_status.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
---
 block.c    | 5 +++++
 qemu-img.c | 9 +--------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 561d5c8..937ee3e 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -2957,6 +2957,11 @@ int bdrv_has_zero_init(BlockDriverState *bs)
 {
     assert(bs->drv);
 
+    /* If BS is a copy on write image, it is initialized to
+       the contents of the base image, which may not be zeroes.  */
+    if (bs->backing_hd) {
+        return 0;
+    }
     if (bs->drv->bdrv_has_zero_init) {
         return bs->drv->bdrv_has_zero_init(bs);
     }
diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
index 837f8bc..d50e0fc 100644
--- a/qemu-img.c
+++ b/qemu-img.c
@@ -1514,14 +1514,7 @@ static int img_convert(int argc, char **argv)
                should add a specific call to have the info to go faster */
             buf1 = buf;
             while (n > 0) {
-                /* If the output image is being created as a copy on write 
image,
-                   copy all sectors even the ones containing only NUL bytes,
-                   because they may differ from the sectors in the base image.
-
-                   If the output is to a host device, we also write out
-                   sectors that are entirely 0, since whatever data was
-                   already there is garbage, not 0s. */
-                if (!has_zero_init || out_baseimg ||
+                if (!has_zero_init ||
                     is_allocated_sectors_min(buf1, n, &n1, min_sparse)) {
                     ret = bdrv_write(out_bs, sector_num, buf1, n1);
                     if (ret < 0) {
-- 
1.8.3.1