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From 7bae8147abc5661103da3316f09306939ec03708 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 08:45:39 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH 11/29] vmdk: fix comment for vmdk_co_write_zeroes
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RH-Author: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
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Message-id: <1378370739-22259-1-git-send-email-famz@redhat.com>
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Patchwork-id: 54100
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O-Subject: [RHEL-7 qemu-kvm PATCH] vmdk: fix comment for vmdk_co_write_zeroes
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Bugzilla: 995866
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RH-Acked-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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RH-Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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RH-Acked-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
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Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=995866
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Brew:     http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=6246791
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Upstream: merged
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The comment was truncated. Add the missing parts, especially explain why
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we need zero_dry_run.
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Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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(cherry picked from commit 8e50724313895a87057cc243ad805f2eb21feb9f)
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Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
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---
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 block/vmdk.c | 8 ++++++--
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 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
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---
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 block/vmdk.c |    8 ++++++--
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 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c
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index a28fb5e..f0c1f93 100644
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--- a/block/vmdk.c
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+++ b/block/vmdk.c
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@@ -1200,8 +1200,10 @@ static coroutine_fn int vmdk_co_read(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t sector_num,
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 /**
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  * vmdk_write:
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  * @zeroed:       buf is ignored (data is zero), use zeroed_grain GTE feature
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- * if possible, otherwise return -ENOTSUP.
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- * @zero_dry_run: used for zeroed == true only, don't update L2 table, just
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+ *                if possible, otherwise return -ENOTSUP.
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+ * @zero_dry_run: used for zeroed == true only, don't update L2 table, just try
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+ *                with each cluster. By dry run we can find if the zero write
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+ *                is possible without modifying image data.
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  *
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  * Returns: error code with 0 for success.
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  */
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@@ -1328,6 +1330,8 @@ static int coroutine_fn vmdk_co_write_zeroes(BlockDriverState *bs,
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     int ret;
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     BDRVVmdkState *s = bs->opaque;
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     qemu_co_mutex_lock(&s->lock);
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+    /* write zeroes could fail if sectors not aligned to cluster, test it with
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+     * dry_run == true before really updating image */
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     ret = vmdk_write(bs, sector_num, NULL, nb_sectors, true, true);
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     if (!ret) {
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         ret = vmdk_write(bs, sector_num, NULL, nb_sectors, true, false);
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-- 
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1.7.1
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