Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/10] block/json: Add bdrv_co_get_block_status()

[Benoît Canet]

The Monday 03 Mar 2014 à 16:28:48 (+0100), Max Reitz wrote :
> Implement this function in the same way as raw_bsd does: Acknowledge
> that this is a passthrough driver (always return BDRV_BLOCK_OFFSET_VALID
> and BDRV_BLOCK_DATA and derive the offset directly from the sector
> index) and add BDRV_BLOCK_RAW to the returned value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/json.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/json.c b/block/json.c
> index a2f4691..7392802 100644
> --- a/block/json.c
> +++ b/block/json.c
> @@ -113,6 +113,14 @@ static coroutine_fn int 
> json_co_write_zeroes(BlockDriverState *bs,
>      return bdrv_co_write_zeroes(bs, sector_num, nb_sectors, flags);
>  }
>  
> +static coroutine_fn int64_t json_co_get_block_status(BlockDriverState *bs,
> +                                                     int64_t sector_num,
> +                                                     int nb_sectors, int 
> *pnum)
> +{
> +    return BDRV_BLOCK_RAW | BDRV_BLOCK_OFFSET_VALID | BDRV_BLOCK_DATA |
> +           (sector_num << BDRV_SECTOR_BITS);
> +}

I don't understand what is the selling point of this method instead of calling
bdrv_co_get_block_status on bs->file.
Some information risk to be lost and it does look like magic.

Best regards

Benoît

> +
>  static void json_invalidate_cache(BlockDriverState *bs)
>  {
>      return bdrv_invalidate_cache(bs->file);
> @@ -159,6 +167,7 @@ static BlockDriver bdrv_json = {
>      .bdrv_aio_discard           = json_aio_discard,
>  
>      .bdrv_co_write_zeroes       = json_co_write_zeroes,
> +    .bdrv_co_get_block_status   = json_co_get_block_status,
>  
>      .bdrv_invalidate_cache      = json_invalidate_cache,
>  
> -- 
> 1.9.0
> 
>