[libvirt] [PATCH 1/5] blockcopy: virDomainBlockCopy with XML destination, typed params
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Sun Aug 24 03:32:43 UTC 2014
This commit (finally) adds the virDomainBlockCopy API, with the
intent that it will provide more power to the existing 'virsh
blockcopy' command.
'virsh blockcopy' was first added in Apr 2012 (v0.9.12), which
corresponds to the upstream qemu 1.2 timeframe. It was done as
a hack on top of the existing virDomainBlockRebase() API call,
for two reasons: 1) it was targetting a feature that landed first
in downstream RHEL qemu, but had not stabilized in upstream qemu
at the time (and indeed, 'drive-mirror' only landed upstream in
qemu 1.3 with slight differences to the first RHEL attempt,
and later gained further parameters like granularity and buf-size
that are also worth exposing), and 2) extending an existing API
allowed it to be backported without worrying about bumping .so
versions. A virDomainBlockCopy() API was proposed at that time
[1], but we decided not to accept it into libvirt until after
upstream qemu stabilized, and it ended up getting scrapped.
Whether or not RHEL should have attempted adding a new feature
without getting it upstream first is a debate that can be held
another day; but enough time has now elapsed that we are ready to
do the interface cleanly.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-April/msg00768.html
Delaying the creation of a clean API until now has also had a
benefit: we've only recently learned of a shortcoming in the
original design, namely, that it is unable to target a network
destination (such as a gluster volume) because it hard-coded the
assumption that the destination is a local file name. Because
of all the refactoring we've done to add virStorageSourcePtr, we
are in a better position to declare an API that parses XML
describing a host storage source as the copy destination, which
was not possible had we implemented virDomainBlockCopy as it had
been originally envisioned.
At least I had the foresight to create 'virsh blockcopy' as a
separate command at the UI level (commit 1f06c00) rather than
leaking the underlying API overload of virDomainBlockRebase onto
shell users.
A note on the bandwidth option: virTypedParameters intentionally
lacks unsigned long (since variable-width interaction between
mixed 32- vs. 64-bit client/server setups is nasty), but we have
to deal with the fact that we are interacting with existing older
code that mistakenly chose unsigned long bandwidth at a point
before we decided to prohibit it in all new API. The typed
parameter is therefore unsigned long long, and the implementation
will have to do overflow detection on 32-bit platforms.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (virDomainBlockCopy): New API.
(virDomainBlockJobType, virConnectDomainEventBlockJobStatus):
Update related documentation.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainBlockCopy): Implement it.
* src/libvirt_public.syms (LIBVIRT_1.2.8): Export it.
* src/driver.h (_virDriver): New driver callback.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
---
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in | 57 +++++++++++++++++++--
src/driver.h | 11 +++-
src/libvirt.c | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
src/libvirt_public.syms | 5 ++
4 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
index 47ea695..89c8e63 100644
--- a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
+++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
@@ -2518,16 +2518,16 @@ typedef enum {
* flags), job ends on completion */
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_TYPE_COPY = 2,
- /* Block Copy (virDomainBlockRebase with flags), job exists as
- * long as mirroring is active */
+ /* Block Copy (virDomainBlockCopy, or virDomainBlockRebase with
+ * flags), job exists as long as mirroring is active */
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_TYPE_COMMIT = 3,
/* Block Commit (virDomainBlockCommit without flags), job ends on
* completion */
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_TYPE_ACTIVE_COMMIT = 4,
- /* Active Block Commit (virDomainBlockCommit with flags), job
- * exists as long as sync is active */
+ /* Active Block Commit (virDomainBlockCommit with flags), job exists
+ * as long as sync is active */
#ifdef VIR_ENUM_SENTINELS
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_TYPE_LAST
@@ -2597,6 +2597,53 @@ int virDomainBlockRebase(virDomainPtr dom, const char *disk,
unsigned int flags);
/**
+ * virDomainBlockCopyFlags:
+ *
+ * Flags available for virDomainBlockCopy().
+ */
+typedef enum {
+ VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_SHALLOW = 1 << 0, /* Limit copy to top of source
+ backing chain */
+ VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_REUSE_EXT = 1 << 1, /* Reuse existing external
+ file for a copy */
+} virDomainBlockCopyFlags;
+
+/**
+ * VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_BANDWIDTH:
+ * Macro for the virDomainBlockCopy bandwidth tunable: it represents
+ * the maximum bandwidth (in MiB/s) used while getting the copy
+ * operation into the mirrored phase, with a type of ullong (although
+ * the hypervisor may restrict the set of valid values to a smaller
+ * range). Some hypervisors may lack support for this parameter, while
+ * still allowing a subsequent change of bandwidth via
+ * virDomainBlockJobSetSpeed(). The actual speed can be determined
+ * with virDomainGetBlockJobInfo().
+ */
+#define VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_BANDWIDTH "bandwidth"
+
+/**
+ * VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_GRANULARITY:
+ * Macro for the virDomainBlockCopy granularity tunable: it represents
+ * the granularity at which the copy operation recognizes dirty pages,
+ * as an unsigned int, and must be a power of 2.
+ */
+#define VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_GRANULARITY "granularity"
+
+/**
+ * VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_BUF_SIZE:
+ * Macro for the virDomainBlockCopy buffer size tunable: it represents
+ * how much data can be in flight between source and destination, as
+ * an unsigned int.
+ */
+#define VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_BUF_SIZE "buf-size"
+
+int virDomainBlockCopy(virDomainPtr dom, const char *disk,
+ const char *destxml,
+ virTypedParameterPtr params,
+ int nparams,
+ unsigned int flags);
+
+/**
* virDomainBlockCommitFlags:
*
* Flags available for virDomainBlockCommit().
@@ -4830,7 +4877,7 @@ typedef void (*virConnectDomainEventGraphicsCallback)(virConnectPtr conn,
* virConnectDomainEventBlockJobStatus:
*
* Tracks status of a virDomainBlockPull(), virDomainBlockRebase(),
- * or virDomainBlockCommit() operation
+ * virDomainBlockCopy(), or virDomainBlockCommit() operation
*/
typedef enum {
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED = 0,
diff --git a/src/driver.h b/src/driver.h
index ba7c1fc..14933a7 100644
--- a/src/driver.h
+++ b/src/driver.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
* driver.h: description of the set of interfaces provided by a
* entry point to the virtualization engine
*
- * Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2006-2014 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
@@ -1009,6 +1009,14 @@ typedef int
unsigned int flags);
typedef int
+(*virDrvDomainBlockCopy)(virDomainPtr dom,
+ const char *path,
+ const char *destxml,
+ virTypedParameterPtr params,
+ int nparams,
+ unsigned int flags);
+
+typedef int
(*virDrvDomainBlockCommit)(virDomainPtr dom,
const char *disk,
const char *base,
@@ -1382,6 +1390,7 @@ struct _virDriver {
virDrvDomainBlockJobSetSpeed domainBlockJobSetSpeed;
virDrvDomainBlockPull domainBlockPull;
virDrvDomainBlockRebase domainBlockRebase;
+ virDrvDomainBlockCopy domainBlockCopy;
virDrvDomainBlockCommit domainBlockCommit;
virDrvConnectSetKeepAlive connectSetKeepAlive;
virDrvConnectIsAlive connectIsAlive;
diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c
index 8349261..99f1dc1 100644
--- a/src/libvirt.c
+++ b/src/libvirt.c
@@ -19924,7 +19924,11 @@ virDomainBlockPull(virDomainPtr dom, const char *disk,
* The actual speed can be determined with virDomainGetBlockJobInfo().
*
* When @base is NULL and @flags is 0, this is identical to
- * virDomainBlockPull().
+ * virDomainBlockPull(). When @flags contains VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY,
+ * this command is shorthand for virDomainBlockCopy() where the destination
+ * has file type, @bandwidth is passed as a typed parameter, and the flags
+ * control whether the destination format is raw, identical to the source,
+ * or probed from the reused file.
*
* Returns 0 if the operation has started, -1 on failure.
*/
@@ -19975,6 +19979,118 @@ virDomainBlockRebase(virDomainPtr dom, const char *disk,
/**
+ * virDomainBlockCopy:
+ * @dom: pointer to domain object
+ * @disk: path to the block device, or device shorthand
+ * @destxml: XML description of the copy destination
+ * @params: Pointer to block copy parameter objects, or NULL
+ * @nparams: Number of block copy parameters (this value can be the same or
+ * less than the number of parameters supported)
+ * @flags: bitwise-OR of virDomainBlockCopyFlags
+ *
+ * Copy the guest-visible contents of a disk image to a new file described
+ * by @destxml. The destination XML has a top-level element of <disk>, and
+ * resembles what is used when hot-plugging a disk via virDomainAttachDevice(),
+ * except that only sub-elements related to describing the new host resource
+ * are necessary (sub-elements related to the guest view, such as <target>,
+ * are ignored). It is strongly recommended to include a <driver type='...'/>
+ * format designation for the destination, to avoid the potential of any
+ * security problem that might be caused by probing a file for its format.
+ *
+ * This command starts a long-running copy. By default, the copy will pull
+ * the entire source chain into the destination file, but if @flags also
+ * contains VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_SHALLOW, then only the top of the source
+ * chain will be copied (the source and destination have a common backing
+ * file). The format of the destination file is controlled by the <driver>
+ * sub-element of the XML. The destination will be created unless the
+ * VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_REUSE_EXT flag is present stating that the file
+ * was pre-created with the correct format and metadata and sufficient
+ * size to hold the copy. In case the VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY_SHALLOW flag
+ * is used the pre-created file has to exhibit the same guest visible contents
+ * as the backing file of the original image. This allows a management app to
+ * pre-create files with relative backing file names, rather than the default
+ * of absolute backing file names.
+ *
+ * A copy job has two parts; in the first phase, the @bandwidth parameter
+ * affects how fast the source is pulled into the destination, and the job
+ * can only be canceled by reverting to the source file; progress in this
+ * phase can be tracked via the virDomainBlockJobInfo() command, with a
+ * job type of VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_TYPE_COPY. The job transitions to the
+ * second phase when the job info states cur == end, and remains alive to
+ * mirror all further changes to both source and destination. The user
+ * must call virDomainBlockJobAbort() to end the mirroring while choosing
+ * whether to revert to source or pivot to the destination. An event is
+ * issued when the job ends, and depending on the hypervisor, an event may
+ * also be issued when the job transitions from pulling to mirroring. If
+ * the job is aborted, a new job will have to start over from the beginning
+ * of the first phase.
+ *
+ * Some hypervisors will restrict certain actions, such as virDomainSave()
+ * or virDomainDetachDevice(), while a copy job is active; they may
+ * also restrict a copy job to transient domains.
+ *
+ * The @disk parameter is either an unambiguous source name of the
+ * block device (the <source file='...'/> sub-element, such as
+ * "/path/to/image"), or the device target shorthand (the
+ * <target dev='...'/> sub-element, such as "vda"). Valid names
+ * can be found by calling virDomainGetXMLDesc() and inspecting
+ * elements within //domain/devices/disk.
+ *
+ * The @params and @nparams arguments can be used to set hypervisor-specific
+ * tuning parameters, such as maximum bandwidth or granularity.
+ *
+ * This command is a superset of the older virDomainBlockRebase() when used
+ * with the VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY flag, and offers better control
+ * over the destination format, the ability to copy to a destination that
+ * is not a local file, and the possibility of additional tuning parameters.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if the operation has started, -1 on failure.
+ */
+int
+virDomainBlockCopy(virDomainPtr dom, const char *disk,
+ const char *destxml,
+ virTypedParameterPtr params,
+ int nparams,
+ unsigned int flags)
+{
+ virConnectPtr conn;
+
+ VIR_DOMAIN_DEBUG(dom,
+ "disk=%s, destxml=%s, params=%p, nparams=%d, flags=%x",
+ disk, destxml, params, nparams, flags);
+ VIR_TYPED_PARAMS_DEBUG(params, nparams);
+
+ virResetLastError();
+
+ virCheckDomainReturn(dom, -1);
+ conn = dom->conn;
+
+ virCheckReadOnlyGoto(conn->flags, error);
+ virCheckNonNullArgGoto(disk, error);
+ virCheckNonNullArgGoto(destxml, error);
+ if (params)
+ virCheckPositiveArgGoto(nparams, error);
+ else
+ virCheckZeroArgGoto(nparams, error);
+
+ if (conn->driver->domainBlockCopy) {
+ int ret;
+ ret = conn->driver->domainBlockCopy(dom, disk, destxml,
+ params, nparams, flags);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ goto error;
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ virReportUnsupportedError();
+
+ error:
+ virDispatchError(dom->conn);
+ return -1;
+}
+
+
+/**
* virDomainBlockCommit:
* @dom: pointer to domain object
* @disk: path to the block device, or device shorthand
diff --git a/src/libvirt_public.syms b/src/libvirt_public.syms
index 9f4016a..c3f3bd0 100644
--- a/src/libvirt_public.syms
+++ b/src/libvirt_public.syms
@@ -670,4 +670,9 @@ LIBVIRT_1.2.7 {
virConnectGetDomainCapabilities;
} LIBVIRT_1.2.6;
+LIBVIRT_1.2.8 {
+ global:
+ virDomainBlockCopy;
+} LIBVIRT_1.2.7;
+
# .... define new API here using predicted next version number ....
--
1.9.3
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