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-rw-r--r--include/block/block.h5
-rw-r--r--include/block/block_int.h12
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h
index e7934e07f2..bca3bb831c 100644
--- a/include/block/block.h
+++ b/include/block/block.h
@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@ typedef struct BlockDriverInfo {
int64_t vm_state_offset;
bool is_dirty;
/*
- * True if unallocated blocks read back as zeroes. This is equivalent
- * to the LBPRZ flag in the SCSI logical block provisioning page.
- */
- bool unallocated_blocks_are_zero;
- /*
* True if this block driver only supports compressed writes
*/
bool needs_compressed_writes;
diff --git a/include/block/block_int.h b/include/block/block_int.h
index 1b86b59af1..3d6cf88592 100644
--- a/include/block/block_int.h
+++ b/include/block/block_int.h
@@ -123,7 +123,17 @@ struct BlockDriver {
*/
bool bdrv_needs_filename;
- /* Set if a driver can support backing files */
+ /*
+ * Set if a driver can support backing files. This also implies the
+ * following semantics:
+ *
+ * - Return status 0 of .bdrv_co_block_status means that corresponding
+ * blocks are not allocated in this layer of backing-chain
+ * - For such (unallocated) blocks, read will:
+ * - fill buffer with zeros if there is no backing file
+ * - read from the backing file otherwise, where the block layer
+ * takes care of reading zeros beyond EOF if backing file is short
+ */
bool supports_backing;
/* For handling image reopen for split or non-split files */