Change BDRV_O_NOCACHE to only imply bypassing the host OS file cache, but no writeback semantics. All existing callers are changed to also specify BDRV_O_CACHE_WB to give them writeback semantics.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> Index: qemu/block.c =================================================================== --- qemu.orig/block.c 2011-03-08 20:11:08.188219978 +0100 +++ qemu/block.c 2011-03-08 20:12:44.971718742 +0100 @@ -439,13 +439,7 @@ static int bdrv_open_common(BlockDriverS bs->drv = drv; bs->opaque = qemu_mallocz(drv->instance_size); - /* - * Yes, BDRV_O_NOCACHE aka O_DIRECT means we have to present a - * write cache to the guest. We do need the fdatasync to flush - * out transactions for block allocations, and we maybe have a - * volatile write cache in our backing device to deal with. - */ - if (flags & (BDRV_O_CACHE_WB|BDRV_O_NOCACHE)) + if (flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB) bs->enable_write_cache = 1; /* Index: qemu/block/raw-posix.c =================================================================== --- qemu.orig/block/raw-posix.c 2011-03-08 20:11:08.200220692 +0100 +++ qemu/block/raw-posix.c 2011-03-08 20:11:22.229218596 +0100 @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static int raw_open_common(BlockDriverSt * and O_DIRECT for no caching. */ if ((bdrv_flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE)) s->open_flags |= O_DIRECT; - else if (!(bdrv_flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)) + if (!(bdrv_flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)) s->open_flags |= O_DSYNC; s->fd = -1; Index: qemu/block/raw-win32.c =================================================================== --- qemu.orig/block/raw-win32.c 2011-03-08 20:11:08.212218227 +0100 +++ qemu/block/raw-win32.c 2011-03-08 20:11:22.237218180 +0100 @@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ static int raw_open(BlockDriverState *bs } overlapped = FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL; - if ((flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE)) - overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING | FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH; - else if (!(flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)) + if (flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE) + overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING; + if (!(flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)) overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH; s->hfile = CreateFile(filename, access_flags, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, @@ -349,9 +349,9 @@ static int hdev_open(BlockDriverState *b create_flags = OPEN_EXISTING; overlapped = FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL; - if ((flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE)) - overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING | FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH; - else if (!(flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)) + if (flags & BDRV_O_NOCACHE) + overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING; + if (!(flags & BDRV_O_CACHE_WB)) overlapped |= FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH; s->hfile = CreateFile(filename, access_flags, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, Index: qemu/blockdev.c =================================================================== --- qemu.orig/blockdev.c 2011-03-08 20:11:08.220217606 +0100 +++ qemu/blockdev.c 2011-03-08 20:11:22.237218180 +0100 @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ DriveInfo *drive_init(QemuOpts *opts, in if ((buf = qemu_opt_get(opts, "cache")) != NULL) { if (!strcmp(buf, "off") || !strcmp(buf, "none")) { - bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE; + bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB; } else if (!strcmp(buf, "writeback")) { bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_CACHE_WB; } else if (!strcmp(buf, "unsafe")) { Index: qemu/qemu-io.c =================================================================== --- qemu.orig/qemu-io.c 2011-03-08 20:11:08.232220650 +0100 +++ qemu/qemu-io.c 2011-03-08 20:11:22.245232398 +0100 @@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@ open_f(int argc, char **argv) flags |= BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT; break; case 'n': - flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE; + flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB; break; case 'r': readonly = 1; @@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) flags |= BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT; break; case 'n': - flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE; + flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB; break; case 'c': add_user_command(optarg); Index: qemu/qemu-nbd.c =================================================================== --- qemu.orig/qemu-nbd.c 2011-03-08 20:11:08.244217894 +0100 +++ qemu/qemu-nbd.c 2011-03-08 20:11:22.253267426 +0100 @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) flags |= BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT; break; case 'n': - flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE; + flags |= BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB; break; case 'b': bindto = optarg;