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Commit 88d88798 authored by Marc Marí's avatar Marc Marí Committed by Hanna Reitz
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blockdev: Add dynamic module loading for block drivers


Extend the current module interface to allow for block drivers to be
loaded dynamically on request. The only block drivers that can be
converted into modules are the drivers that don't perform any init
operation except for registering themselves.

In addition, only the protocol drivers are being modularized, as they
are the only ones which see significant performance benefits. The format
drivers do not generally link to external libraries, so modularizing
them is of no benefit from a performance perspective.

All the necessary module information is located in a new structure found
in module_block.h

This spoils the purpose of 5505e8b7 (block/dmg: make it modular).

Before this patch, if module build is enabled, block-dmg.so is linked to
libbz2, whereas the main binary is not. In downstream, theoretically, it
means only the qemu-block-extra package depends on libbz2, while the
main QEMU package needn't to. With this patch, we (temporarily) change
the case so that the main QEMU depends on libbz2 again.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Marí <markmb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarColin Lord <clord@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1471008424-16465-4-git-send-email-clord@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: default avatarMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
[mreitz: Do a signed comparison against the length of
 block_driver_modules[], so it will not cause a compile error when
 empty]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMax Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
parent 0c0c1fd9
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