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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 30/39] qcow2: Update expand_zero_clusters_in_


From: Max Reitz
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 30/39] qcow2: Update expand_zero_clusters_in_l1() to support L2 slices
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 20:44:49 +0100
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On 2018-01-26 15:59, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> expand_zero_clusters_in_l1() expands zero clusters as a necessary step
> to downgrade qcow2 images to a version that doesn't support metadata
> zero clusters. This function takes an L1 table (which may or may not
> be active) and iterates over all its L2 tables looking for zero
> clusters.
> 
> Since we'll be loading L2 slices instead of full tables we need to add
> an extra loop that iterates over all slices of each L2 table, and we
> should also use the slice size when allocating the buffer used when
> the L1 table is not active.
> 
> This function doesn't need any additional changes so apart from that
> this patch simply updates the variable name from l2_table to l2_slice.
> 
> Finally, and since we have to touch the bdrv_read() / bdrv_write()
> calls anyway, this patch takes the opportunity to replace them with
> the byte-based bdrv_pread() / bdrv_pwrite().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/qcow2-cluster.c | 52 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

Aside from the void * casts (and slice_size2 *cough* *cough*):

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>

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