Based-on: <20200124103458.1525982-2-david.edmond...@oracle.com> ([PATCH v2 1/2] qemu-img: Add --target-is-zero to convert)
I'm working on adding an NBD extension that reports whether an image is already all zero when the client first connects. I initially thought I could write the NBD code to just call bdrv_has_zero_init(), but that turned out to be a bad assumption that instead resulted in this patch series. The NBD patch will come later (and cross-posted to the NBD protocol, libnbd, nbdkit, and qemu, as it will affect all four repositories). I do have an RFC question on patch 13 - as implemented here, I set a qcow2 bit if the image has all clusters known zero and no backing image. But it may be more useful to instead report whether all clusters _allocated in this layer_ are zero, at which point the overall image is all-zero only if the backing file also has that property (or even make it two bits). The tweaks to subsequent patches based on what we think makes the most useful semantics shouldn't be hard. [repo.or.cz appears to be down as I type this; I'll post a link to a repository later when it comes back up] Eric Blake (17): qcow2: Comment typo fixes qcow2: List autoclear bit names in header qcow2: Avoid feature name extension on small cluster size block: Improve documentation of .bdrv_has_zero_init block: Don't advertise zero_init_truncate with encryption block: Improve bdrv_has_zero_init_truncate with backing file gluster: Drop useless has_zero_init callback sheepdog: Consistently set bdrv_has_zero_init_truncate block: Refactor bdrv_has_zero_init{,_truncate} block: Add new BDRV_ZERO_OPEN flag file-posix: Support BDRV_ZERO_OPEN gluster: Support BDRV_ZERO_OPEN qcow2: Add new autoclear feature for all zero image qcow2: Expose all zero bit through .bdrv_known_zeroes qcow2: Implement all-zero autoclear bit iotests: Add new test for qcow2 all-zero bit qcow2: Let qemu-img check cover all-zero bit block.c | 62 +++++---- block/file-posix.c | 16 ++- block/file-win32.c | 3 +- block/gluster.c | 34 +++-- block/nfs.c | 7 +- block/parallels.c | 4 +- block/qcow.c | 2 +- block/qcow2-refcount.c | 60 +++++++- block/qcow2-snapshot.c | 11 ++ block/qcow2.c | 150 +++++++++++++++++--- block/qcow2.h | 6 +- block/qed.c | 3 +- block/raw-format.c | 12 +- block/rbd.c | 3 +- block/sheepdog.c | 7 +- block/ssh.c | 7 +- block/vdi.c | 8 +- block/vhdx.c | 16 +-- block/vmdk.c | 9 +- block/vpc.c | 8 +- blockdev.c | 2 +- docs/interop/qcow2.txt | 15 +- include/block/block.h | 38 ++++- include/block/block_int.h | 14 +- qapi/block-core.json | 4 + qemu-img.c | 9 +- tests/qemu-iotests/031.out | 14 +- tests/qemu-iotests/036 | 6 +- tests/qemu-iotests/036.out | 10 +- tests/qemu-iotests/060.out | 6 +- tests/qemu-iotests/061 | 6 +- tests/qemu-iotests/061.out | 26 ++-- tests/qemu-iotests/065 | 12 +- tests/qemu-iotests/082.out | 7 + tests/qemu-iotests/122 | 2 +- tests/qemu-iotests/188 | 2 +- tests/qemu-iotests/188.out | 2 +- tests/qemu-iotests/206.out | 4 + tests/qemu-iotests/242.out | 1 + tests/qemu-iotests/285 | 124 +++++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/285.out | 277 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 + 42 files changed, 832 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-) create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/285 create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/285.out -- 2.24.1