Unfortunately not all filters use .file child as filtered child. Two
exclusions are mirror_top and commit_top. Happily they both are private
filters. Bad thing is that this inconsistency is observable through qmp
commands query-block / query-named-block-nodes. So, could we just
change mirror_top and commit_top to use file child as all other filter
driver is an open question. Probably, we could do that with some kind
of deprecation period, but how to warn users during it?
For now, let's just add a field so we can distinguish them in generic
code, it will be used in further commits.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@openvz.org>
---
block/commit.c | 1 +
block/mirror.c | 1 +
include/block/block_int-common.h | 13 +++++++++++++
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/commit.c b/block/commit.c
index 851d1c557a..7722a392af 100644
--- a/block/commit.c
+++ b/block/commit.c
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ static BlockDriver bdrv_commit_top = {
.bdrv_child_perm = bdrv_commit_top_child_perm,
.is_filter = true,
+ .filtered_child_is_backing = true,
};
void commit_start(const char *job_id, BlockDriverState *bs,
diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c
index d8ecb9efa2..824b273fc7 100644
--- a/block/mirror.c
+++ b/block/mirror.c
@@ -1578,6 +1578,7 @@ static BlockDriver bdrv_mirror_top = {
.bdrv_child_perm = bdrv_mirror_top_child_perm,
.is_filter = true,
+ .filtered_child_is_backing = true,
};
static BlockJob *mirror_start_job(
diff --git a/include/block/block_int-common.h b/include/block/block_int-common.h
index 8947abab76..9d91ccbcbf 100644
--- a/include/block/block_int-common.h
+++ b/include/block/block_int-common.h
@@ -119,6 +119,19 @@ struct BlockDriver {
* (And this filtered child must then be bs->file or bs->backing.)
*/
bool is_filter;
+ /*
+ * Only make sense for filter drivers, for others must be false.
+ * If true, filtered child is bs->backing. Otherwise it's bs->file.
+ * Only two internal filters use bs->backing as filtered child and has this
+ * field set to true: mirror_top and commit_top.
+ *
+ * Never create any more such filters!
+ *
+ * TODO: imagine how to deprecate this behavior and make all filters work
+ * similarly using bs->file as filtered child.
+ */
+ bool filtered_child_is_backing;
+
/*
* Set to true if the BlockDriver is a format driver. Format nodes
* generally do not expect their children to be other format nodes
--
2.35.1