Making this option available even before implementing it will let
converting tests easier: in coming patches they can specify the option
already when necessary, before we actually write code to lock the
images.
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>
---
block/file-posix.c | 5 +++++
qapi/block-core.json | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/file-posix.c b/block/file-posix.c
index 1941fb6..261563d 100644
--- a/block/file-posix.c
+++ b/block/file-posix.c
@@ -392,6 +392,11 @@ static QemuOptsList raw_runtime_opts = {
.type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
.help = "host AIO implementation (threads, native)",
},
+ {
+ .name = "locking",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
+ .help = "file locking mode (on/off/auto, default: auto)",
+ },
{ /* end of list */ }
},
};
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index 1cf29a1..29d3040 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -2127,11 +2127,15 @@
#
# @filename: path to the image file
# @aio: AIO backend (default: threads) (since: 2.8)
+# @locking: whether to enable file locking. If set to 'auto', only enable
+# when Open File Descriptor (OFD) locking API is available
+# (default: auto, since 2.10)
#
# Since: 2.9
##
{ 'struct': 'BlockdevOptionsFile',
'data': { 'filename': 'str',
+ '*locking': 'OnOffAuto',
'*aio': 'BlockdevAioOptions' } }
##
--
2.9.3
