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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-10-24 11:33:46 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2014-10-24 11:33:46 +0100
commit8b135a288ae8dec2359e9bd410312039da2e7cd2 (patch)
tree7a043da05ebf7fc21a8ae278e61ce2d1badee42a /docs/specs/qcow2.txt
parent1430500bb8ba0bf15bad235439d62276c1b6b22f (diff)
parentd4db399b8be286fe471bbc9edf8ec22d8feac4d4 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging
Block patches # gpg: Signature made Thu 23 Oct 2014 18:56:05 BST using RSA key ID C88F2FD6 # gpg: Good signature from "Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>" * remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream: (32 commits) qemu-img: Print error if check failed block: char devices on FreeBSD are not behind a pager iotests: Add test for qcow2 L1 table update qcow2: Do not overflow when writing an L1 sector iotests: Add test for map commands qemu-io: Respect early image end for map block: Respect underlying file's EOF docs/qcow2: Limit refcount_order to [0, 6] docs/qcow2: Correct refcount_block_entries qcow2: Drop REFCOUNT_SHIFT iotests: Add test for potentially damaging repairs iotests: Fix test outputs qcow2: Clean up after refcount rebuild qcow2: Rebuild refcount structure during check qcow2: Do not perform potentially damaging repairs qcow2: Fix refcount blocks beyond image end qcow2: Reuse refcount table in calculate_refcounts() qcow2: Let inc_refcounts() resize the reftable qcow2: Let inc_refcounts() return -errno qcow2: Split fail code in L1 and L2 checks ... Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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diff --git a/docs/specs/qcow2.txt b/docs/specs/qcow2.txt
index cfbc8b070c..121dfc8cc1 100644
--- a/docs/specs/qcow2.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/qcow2.txt
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ in the description of a field.
in bits: refcount_bits = 1 << refcount_order). For version 2
images, the order is always assumed to be 4
(i.e. refcount_bits = 16).
+ This value may not exceed 6 (i.e. refcount_bits = 64).
100 - 103: header_length
Length of the header structure in bytes. For version 2
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@ blocks and are exactly one cluster in size.
Given a offset into the image file, the refcount of its cluster can be obtained
as follows:
- refcount_block_entries = (cluster_size / sizeof(uint16_t))
+ refcount_block_entries = (cluster_size * 8 / refcount_bits)
refcount_block_index = (offset / cluster_size) % refcount_block_entries
refcount_table_index = (offset / cluster_size) / refcount_block_entries