similar to: [nbdkit PATCH 0/4] Fix truncate handling of real_size

I do have a question about whether patch 2 is right, or whether I've exposed a bigger problem in the truncate (and possibly other) filter, but the rest seem fairly straightforward. Eric Blake (4): server: Check for pthread lock failures truncate: Factor out reading real_size under mutex plugins: Check for mutex failures filters: Check for mutex failures filters/cache/cache.c

I have dropped the map filter from this series for now while I try to get it working. However I think the truncate filter is in a good shape. This incorporates all feedback from Eric's review. Also there are three small fixes to the filter code, all revealed when I was testing using multiple filters which we'd not done much of before. Rich.

When querying the extents of the underlying plugin, we should only translate the starting offset, and let the plugin report for at least as many bytes as our range permits. Otherwise, short-changing the range causes bad behavior such as returning 0 extents, or even failing the creation of an extents tracker: $ cat script case "$1" in get_size) echo 1m;; can_extents) ;;

This has already been pushed upstream. I am simply posting these here so we have a reference in the mailing list in case we find bugs later (as I'm sure we will - it's a complex patch series). Great thanks to Eric Blake for tireless review on this one. It also seems to have identified a few minor bugs in qemu along the way. Rich.

There's more that can be done (in particular, use of CLEANUP_FREE), but this is enough to at least see if I'm on the right track. I couldn't figure out an obvious difference between common/include and common/utils, but it looks like the former is for things that are inlineable via .h only, while the latter is when you need to link in a convenience library, so this landed in the

This patch series proposes two new filters. * truncate: This can truncate, extend, round up or round down the size of a plugin/device. A typical usage is to fix the qemu problem that it can only handle devices which are a multiple of 512-bytes: nbdkit --filter=truncate random size=500 round-up=512 This will serve a virtual device with size 512 bytes. Reading from the last 12 bytes will

I'm not sure exactly which version we're up to, but let's say it's version 4. I'm a lot happier with this version: - all filters have been reviewed and changed where I think that's necessary - can_extents is properly defined and implemented now - NBD protocol is followed - I believe it addresses all previous review points where possible The "only" thing

Since we're using ({ .. }) gcc/clang extension, let's rewrite the rounding.h change too. Rich.

Ultimately, both the blocksize and swab filters want to return aligned extents to the client. I'm posting this as a snapshot of my work in progress on how I plan to get there (it's not quite working yet, but I'm done for today and wanted to at least document my ideas). I might also add a convenience function for nbdkit_extents_offset, since we have a number of filters that repeat the

The man page claims both offset and range are optional (matching the code), but the --help text claims offset is mandatory, and the comment to the no-op offset_config_complete claims we require both parameters. We did not check for an offset larger than the underlying size when there was no range, and even when there is a range, we were not careful about integer overflow (offset=5E range=5E

The truncate filter tried to be careful to lock access to setting or reading the real_size variable learned from calling next_ops->get_size, in anticipation of not behaving incorrectly if the NBD protocol makes dynamic resize supported, and where the global variable could serve as a cache rather than having to always call next_ops->get_size to recompute things. However, nbdkit-plugin.pod

This fix isn't exhaustive but it fixes some obvious problems in the filters. Rich.

Rebased filters patch. Requires current git master + the locks / thread model fix (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-January/msg00128.html) So a few changes here since last time: The "introduce filters" and "implement filters" patches are squashed together. I introduced a concept of .prepare and .finalize. These run before and after the data serving phase

It is possible for the round-up parameter to cause our desired size to exceed 2**63-1. But this error message is cryptic: $ ./nbdkit -f --filter=truncate pattern $(((1<<63)-1)) round-up=1m & $ qemu-nbd --list nbdkit: pattern[1]: error: .get_size function returned invalid value (-9223372036854775808) qemu-nbd: Failed to read initial magic: Unexpected end-of-file before all bytes were

On 4/23/19 2:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Now that cleanup.h is in common code, we can use it in our > filters. The first round focuses just on places that called > nbdkit_extents_free(), as all three callers had multiple exit paths > that definitely benefit from the macro. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> > --- > filters/offset/offset.c | 13

Includes a rework of the previously posted patch for --run improvements (mostly with improved comments and commit message; I decided that waiting for the captive nbdkit to exit was overkill), and four new patches. The tests are intentionally separate, to allow rearranging the order of the series to see the failures being fixed. Eric Blake (6): server: Propagate unexpected nbdkit failure with

For review only, this needs some clean up and more tests. My eyes are going cross-eyed looking at the calculate_offset_of_entry function, so time to take a break ... Rich.

When using a filter that rounds up to alignment boundaries, the tail bytes of the plugin are difficult to access correctly. Rather than duplicating lots of code already in the truncate filter, it's easier to just make the other filters default to rounding down and add doc links on how to round up instead. Eric Blake (2): blocksize: Lift restriction against 0-size file cache, cow: Round

Applies on top of my pending series for the exportname filter, addressing one of the todo's in that cover letter. Eric Blake (2): filters: Add .export_description wrappers ext2: Supply .list_exports and .default_export filters/ext2/nbdkit-ext2-filter.pod | 3 +- tests/Makefile.am | 16 +++- filters/ext2/ext2.c | 125 +++++++++++++++++++---------

Since v1: - rework .can_cache to be tri-state, with default of no advertisement (ripple effect through other patches) - add a lot more patches in order to round out filter support And in the meantime, Rich pushed NBD_CMD_CACHE support into libnbd, so in theory we now have a way to test cache commands through the entire stack. Eric Blake (24): server: Internal hooks for implementing