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authorMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>2018-04-21 15:29:23 +0200
committerMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>2018-05-15 16:15:21 +0200
commitc6035964f8316b504060618d05b5dd434f18595b (patch)
treed6b2279cf0ce77c58d2d41cb1014d265c1380c3d /block/io.c
parent24b7c538fea86b598e2a335f4805a0ab50a30e98 (diff)
block: Add BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED flag
This flag signifies that a write request will not change the visible disk content. With this flag set, it is sufficient to have the BLK_PERM_WRITE_UNCHANGED permission instead of BLK_PERM_WRITE. Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> Message-id: 20180421132929.21610-4-mreitz@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/io.c')
-rw-r--r--block/io.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/io.c b/block/io.c
index 4fad5ac2fe..9e8449e795 100644
--- a/block/io.c
+++ b/block/io.c
@@ -1504,7 +1504,11 @@ static int coroutine_fn bdrv_aligned_pwritev(BdrvChild *child,
assert(!waited || !req->serialising);
assert(req->overlap_offset <= offset);
assert(offset + bytes <= req->overlap_offset + req->overlap_bytes);
- assert(child->perm & BLK_PERM_WRITE);
+ if (flags & BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED) {
+ assert(child->perm & (BLK_PERM_WRITE_UNCHANGED | BLK_PERM_WRITE));
+ } else {
+ assert(child->perm & BLK_PERM_WRITE);
+ }
assert(end_sector <= bs->total_sectors || child->perm & BLK_PERM_RESIZE);
ret = notifier_with_return_list_notify(&bs->before_write_notifiers, req);