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block: Add new BDRV_O_INCOMING flag to notice incoming live migration
authorBenoît Canet <benoit.canet@gmail.com>
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:36:48 +0000 (08:36 +0100)
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Thu, 5 Apr 2012 14:27:49 +0000 (16:27 +0200)
commitccb1f4a7b32fbebcf0d49beab1d2614f0a657d5a
tree805d3c75a090ec1a56168090db49b14e1c888e01
parent5a67a1048e1294b35940e7432d57d8cd801e6571
block: Add new BDRV_O_INCOMING flag to notice incoming live migration

From original patch with Patchwork-id: 31110 by
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

"Add a flag to indicate that incoming migration is pending and care needs
to be taken for data consistency.  Block drivers should not modify the
image file before incoming migration is complete since the migration
source host is still using the image file."

The rationale for not using bdrv->read_only is the following.

"Unfortunately this is not possible because too many other places in QEMU
test bdrv_is_read_only() and use it for their own evil purposes.  For
example, ide_init_drive() will error out because read-only harddisks are
not supported.  We're mixing guest and host side read-only concepts so
this simpler alternative does not work."

Signed-off-by: Benoit Canet <benoit.canet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
block.h