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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 24/27] iotests: Disable image locking in 085
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Fam Zheng |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 24/27] iotests: Disable image locking in 085 |
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Fri, 3 Jun 2016 15:18:54 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) |
On Wed, 05/25 15:52, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 17.05.2016 09:35, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > The cases is about live snapshot features. Disable image locking because
> > otherwise a few tests are going to fail because we reuse the same images
> > at blockdev-add.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > tests/qemu-iotests/085 | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/085 b/tests/qemu-iotests/085
> > index aa77eca..48f6684 100755
> > --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/085
> > +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/085
> > @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ function add_snapshot_image()
> > cmd="{ 'execute': 'blockdev-add', 'arguments':
> > { 'options':
> > { 'driver': 'qcow2', 'node-name': 'snap_${1}', ${extra_params}
> > + 'lock-mode': 'off',
> > 'file':
> > { 'driver': 'file', 'filename': '${snapshot_file}',
> > 'node-name': 'file_${1}' } } } }"
> > @@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ echo === Running QEMU ===
> > echo
> >
> > qemu_comm_method="qmp"
> > -_launch_qemu -drive file="${TEST_IMG}.1",if=virtio -drive
> > file="${TEST_IMG}.2",if=virtio
> > +_launch_qemu -drive file="${TEST_IMG}.1",if=virtio,lock-mode=off -drive
> > file="${TEST_IMG}.2",if=virtio,lock-mode=off
> > h=$QEMU_HANDLE
> >
> > echo
> >
>
> So as far as I understand it, add_snapshot_image() is supposed to add
> images from the backing chain to the running VM. The top image is never
> used by add_snapshot_image(), thus the lock-mode=off in the QEMU command
> line seems superfluous.
But down the backing chain is 10-snapshot-v0.qcow2, created in
create_single_snapshot (or create_group_snapshot?). Without lock-mode=off in
the command line, the shared lock cannot work.
>
> Since the backing chain is opened read-only by the VM, it is locked in
> shared mode, basically. Therefore, we can simply use explicitly shared
> lock mode in add_snapshot_image(); or, alternatively, it is completely
> sufficient to specify "'read-only': true" there instead of forcing a
> non-exclusive locking mode.
>
> And indeed, for me the test passes if I undo the changes done by this
> patch and just insert said "'read-only': true" in the blockdev-add
> invocation done by add_snapshot_image().
For above reason, this doesn't work for me. Am I missing anything?
Fam
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