[libvirt] [PATCH] blockcopy: check dst = identical device

[Chun Yan Liu]

>>> On 7/31/2014 at 11:35 AM, in message <53D9B993.4040806 at redhat.com>, Eric Blake
<eblake at redhat.com> wrote: 
> On 07/30/2014 09:29 PM, Chun Yan Liu wrote: 
>  
> >> A better idea would be to rely on the volume lease manager - obtaining a  
> >> lease should be impossible for an image already in use (and should even  
> >> cover the case of copying 'base <- active' onto 'base', which your  
> >> equality test wouldn't catch). I'm not sure why the lease manager is not  
> >> already flagging this issue - are we still using the nop lease manager  
> >> by default, and would the fcntl or sanlock lease manager do a better job? 
> >  
> > Besides the default lock is 'nop', currently lock manager is only used in: 
> > VM start/stop and attach/detach disk, blockcopy not using it. 
>  
> But that's not true - the code IS trying to use it.  qemuDomainBlockCopy 
> calls qemuDomainPrepareDiskChainElement(), which calls 
> virDomainLockImageAttach(), and that should be the use of the lock 
> manager.  Can you debug why it is not working when using something other 
> than the 'nop' manager? 

Update:
1. identical device with exactly the same spelled name. e.g. source is /dev/sda4,
    dest is /dev/sda4:
    * 'lockd' manager is working well with --reuse-external.
    * my previous testing result which makes the VM cannot be started successfully
       after doing blockcopy to same device and shutdown VM and start VM again,
       because I didn't add --reuse-external option. Then in code, it considers the dest
       as a new created file, when error happens, it unlinks the dest, which is actually
       also my source disk.
2. identical device with not exactly the same spelling. e.g. source is /dev/sda4,
    dest is /dev///sda4, or a softlink:
    'lockd' manager is not working. Both hashtable check and fcntl can't give right result.
    * HashTable checks the resource in the locked list depending on the name.
       If name is not exactly the same, it will treat as 'not found in locked list'.
    * In fcntl stage, since fcntl is to one process, in the same process, do two times fcntl
       F_SETLK, both will succeed. Since everytime it's virtlockd tries fcntl, so in this case,
       1st time fcntl /dev/sda4, it succeeds; 2nd time fcntl /dev///sda4, also succeeds.
       Not as we expected 'cannot get the lock'.

>  
> > To use it in blockcopy, maybe can refer to attach/detach disk: before doing 
> > blockcopy, try AcquireResource; after blockcopy finish, try  
> releaseResource. 
>  
> That should be what is already happening. 
>  
>  
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