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authorDaniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>2016-03-21 14:11:42 +0000
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2016-03-30 11:59:32 +0200
commitabb06c5ac1c86e747bbe08bf7b5b69723ad69832 (patch)
tree227d67569c4069dbb356410cbf77e0544224bda8 /include/block
parent543021569978c908fccff235bf90fc803e6fed1d (diff)
block: add flag to indicate that no I/O will be performed
When opening an image it is useful to know whether the caller intends to perform I/O on the image or not. In the case of encrypted images this will allow the block driver to avoid having to prompt for decryption keys when we merely want to query header metadata about the image. eg qemu-img info This flag is enforced at the top level only, since even if we don't want todo I/O on the 'qcow2' file payload, the underlying 'file' driver will still need todo I/O to read the qcow2 header, for example. Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/block')
-rw-r--r--include/block/block.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h
index a48ad49397..c236e1d813 100644
--- a/include/block/block.h
+++ b/include/block/block.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ typedef struct HDGeometry {
#define BDRV_O_PROTOCOL 0x8000 /* if no block driver is explicitly given:
select an appropriate protocol driver,
ignoring the format layer */
+#define BDRV_O_NO_IO 0x10000 /* don't initialize for I/O */
#define BDRV_O_CACHE_MASK (BDRV_O_NOCACHE | BDRV_O_CACHE_WB | BDRV_O_NO_FLUSH)