[Libguestfs] [virt-v2v PATCH 2/3] lib/nbdkit: add the "Nbdkit.get_disk_allocated" helper function

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 01:20:49PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> Add the "Nbdkit.get_disk_allocated" helper function, which calculates the
> number of allocated bytes in an output disk image, through a corresponding
> NBD server connection.
> 
> Original "NBD.block_status" summation example code by Rich Jones
> (thanks!), chunking, metadata context simplification, and virt-v2v
> integration by myself. Chunking added because "NBD.block_status" is not
> 64-bit clean just yet (Eric Blake is working on it).
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2027598
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> ---
>  lib/nbdkit.mli |  8 ++++++
>  lib/nbdkit.ml  | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/nbdkit.mli b/lib/nbdkit.mli
> index 825755e61dbe..03107dab109d 100644
> --- a/lib/nbdkit.mli
> +++ b/lib/nbdkit.mli
> @@ -117,3 +117,11 @@ val with_connect_unix : socket:string ->
>      in [meta_contexts] requested (each of which is not necessarily supported by
>      the server though). The connection is torn down either on normal return or
>      if the function [f] throws an exception. *)
> +
> +val get_disk_allocated : dir:string -> disknr:int -> int64 option
> +(** Callable only in the finalization step. [get_disk_allocated dir disknr]
> +    examines output disk [disknr] through the corresponding NBD server socket
> +    that resides in [dir]. Returns the number of bytes allocated in the disk
> +    image, according to the "base:allocation" metadata context. If the context
> +    is not supported by the NBD server behind the socket, the function returns
> +    None. *)

This really is the right function, wrong module.

Since it only applies to output modules, the logical place is in
output/output.ml, where there are already a bunch of random helper
functions.

> diff --git a/lib/nbdkit.ml b/lib/nbdkit.ml
> index 43e0fc5c728a..e142c210c66f 100644
> --- a/lib/nbdkit.ml
> +++ b/lib/nbdkit.ml
> @@ -229,3 +229,33 @@ let with_connect_unix ~socket ~meta_contexts ~f =
>              ~finally:(fun () -> NBD.shutdown nbd)
>         )
>      ~finally:(fun () -> NBD.close nbd)
> +
> +let get_disk_allocated ~dir ~disknr =
> +  let socket = sprintf "%s/out%d" dir disknr
> +  and alloc_ctx = "base:allocation" in
> +  with_connect_unix ~socket ~meta_contexts:[alloc_ctx]
> +    ~f:(fun nbd ->
> +         if NBD.can_meta_context nbd alloc_ctx then (
> +           (* Get the list of extents, using a 2GiB chunk size as hint. *)
> +           let size = NBD.get_size nbd
> +           and allocated = ref 0_L
> +           and fetch_offset = ref 0_L in
> +           while !fetch_offset < size do
> +             let remaining = size -^ !fetch_offset in
> +             let fetch_size = min 0x8000_0000_L remaining in
> +             NBD.block_status nbd fetch_size !fetch_offset
> +               (fun ctx offset entries err ->
> +                  assert (ctx = alloc_ctx);
> +                  for i = 0 to Array.length entries / 2 - 1 do
> +                    let len = Int64.of_int32 entries.(i * 2)
> +                    and typ = entries.(i * 2 + 1) in
> +                    if Int32.logand typ 1_l = 0_l then
> +                      allocated := !allocated +^ len;
> +                    fetch_offset := !fetch_offset +^ len
> +                  done;
> +                  0
> +               )
> +           done;
> +           Some !allocated
> +         ) else None
> +       )

But the function itself is fine.

Rich.

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