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block: copy-before-write: realize snapshot-access API
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy authored 
Current scheme of image fleecing looks like this:

[guest]                    [NBD export]
  |                              |
  |root                          | root
  v                              v
[copy-before-write] -----> [temp.qcow2]
  |                 target  |
  |file                     |backing
  v                         |
[active disk] <-------------+

 - On guest writes copy-before-write filter copies old data from active
   disk to temp.qcow2. So fleecing client (NBD export) when reads
   changed regions from temp.qcow2 image and unchanged from active disk
   through backing link.

This patch makes possible new image fleecing scheme:

[guest]                   [NBD export]
   |                            |
   | root                       | root
   v                 file       v
[copy-before-write]<------[snapshot-access]
   |           |
   | file      | target
   v           v
[active-disk] [temp.img]

 - copy-before-write does CBW operations and also provides
   snapshot-access API. The API may be accessed through
   snapshot-access driver.

Benefits of new scheme:

1. Access control: if remote client try to read data that not covered
   by original dirty bitmap used on copy-before-write open, client gets
   -EACCES.

2. Discard support: if remote client do DISCARD, this additionally to
   discarding data in temp.img informs block-copy process to not copy
   these clusters. Next read from discarded area will return -EACCES.
   This is significant thing: when fleecing user reads data that was
   not yet copied to temp.img, we can avoid copying it on further guest
   write.

3. Synchronisation between client reads and block-copy write is more
   efficient. In old scheme we just rely on BDRV_REQ_SERIALISING flag
   used for writes to temp.qcow2. New scheme is less blocking:
     - fleecing reads are never blocked: if data region is untouched or
       in-flight, we just read from active-disk, otherwise we read from
       temp.img
     - writes to temp.img are not blocked by fleecing reads
     - still, guest writes of-course are blocked by in-flight fleecing
       reads, that currently read from active-disk - it's the minimum
       necessary blocking

4. Temporary image may be of any format, as we don't rely on backing
   feature.

5. Permission relation are simplified. With old scheme we have to share
   write permission on target child of copy-before-write, otherwise
   backing link conflicts with copy-before-write file child write
   permissions. With new scheme we don't have backing link, and
   copy-before-write node may have unshared access to temporary node.
   (Not realized in this commit, will be in future).

6. Having control on fleecing reads we'll be able to implement
   alternative behavior on failed copy-before-write operations.
   Currently we just break guest request (that's a historical behavior
   of backup). But in some scenarios it's a bad behavior: better
   is to drop the backup as failed but don't break guest request.
   With new scheme we can simply unset some bits in a bitmap on CBW
   failure and further fleecing reads will -EACCES, or something like
   this. (Not implemented in this commit, will be in future)
   Additional application for this is implementing timeout for CBW
   operations.

Iotest 257 output is updated, as two more bitmaps now live in
copy-before-write filter.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20220303194349.2304213-13-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
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