From: Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>
To: Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: svt-core@virtuozzo.com, den@openvz.org, andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com
Subject: Re: [QEMU HCI-8.0 PATCH 2/5] vhost-blk: change backend setup
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:56:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <178844736480.581266.3084182582245534198.b4-review@b4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903123204.24035-3-andrey.zhadchenko@virtuozzo.com>
> Previously we used very ugly and incapsulation-breaking assignment
> fd = blk_bs(s->conf.conf.blk)->file->bs->opaque;
> It is wrong in a many ways, so let's rework this.
>
> Patch changes default `drive` to new `devpath` option so device fd
> is managed by vhost-blk itself. Unfortunately this way we need a
> bit more preparational work: finding out disk length, block size,
> etc. Don't be too broad and just do the minimal and set reasonable
> default values. Validate with previously introduced
> blkconf_validate_blocksizes().
> Also we lose resize, as this is tied to the block node, which is
> now have no place in the setup. We will add this in the next
> patches as well as RO mode.
>
> https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-143437
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Zhadchenko <andrey.zhadchenko@virtuozzo.com>
>
> diff --git a/hw/block/vhost-blk.c b/hw/block/vhost-blk.c
> index c52851fcf8b..a3e0010982f 100644
> --- a/hw/block/vhost-blk.c
> +++ b/hw/block/vhost-blk.c
> @@ -24,23 +24,17 @@
> #include "system/system.h"
> #include "linux-headers/linux/vhost.h"
> #include <sys/ioctl.h>
> -#include <linux/fs.h>
> -#include "include/block/block_int-common.h"
> #include "system/runstate.h"
>
> static int vhost_blk_start(VirtIODevice *vdev)
> {
> VHostBlk *s = VHOST_BLK(vdev);
> struct vhost_vring_file backend;
> - int ret, i, nworkers, *fd;
> + int ret, i, nworkers;
> BusState *qbus = BUS(qdev_get_parent_bus(DEVICE(vdev)));
> VirtioBusClass *k = VIRTIO_BUS_GET_CLASS(qbus);
> char serial[VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES] = {0};
>
> - bdrv_graph_rdlock_main_loop();
> - fd = blk_bs(s->conf.conf.blk)->file->bs->opaque;
> - bdrv_graph_rdunlock_main_loop();
> -
> if (!k->set_guest_notifiers) {
> error_report("vhost-blk: binding does not support guest notifiers");
> return -ENOSYS;
> @@ -92,7 +86,7 @@ static int vhost_blk_start(VirtIODevice *vdev)
>
> memset(&backend, 0, sizeof(backend));
> backend.index = 0;
> - backend.fd = *fd;
> + backend.fd = s->backend_fd;
> if (ioctl(s->vhostfd, VHOST_BLK_SET_BACKEND, &backend)) {
> error_report("vhost-blk: unable to set backend");
> ret = -errno;
> @@ -208,29 +202,79 @@ static void vhost_blk_vm_state(void *opaque, bool running, RunState state)
> }
> }
>
> -static void vhost_blk_resize_cb(void *opaque)
> +static int vhost_blk_update_size(VHostBlk *s, Error **errp)
> {
> - VirtIODevice *vdev = opaque;
> + BlockConf *conf = &s->conf.conf;
> + off_t length;
> + bool changed;
> +
> + length = lseek(s->backend_fd, 0, SEEK_END);
> + if (length < 0) {
> + int error = errno;
> +
> + error_setg_errno(errp, error,
> + "vhost-blk: unable to determine size of '%s'",
> + s->conf.devpath);
> + return -error;
> + }
>
> - assert(qemu_get_current_aio_context() == qemu_get_aio_context());
> - virtio_notify_config(vdev);
> + changed = s->length != length;
> + s->length = length;
> + conf->heads = 16;
> + conf->secs = 63;
> + conf->cyls = s->length / BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE /
> + (conf->heads * conf->secs);
> + conf->cyls = MIN(MAX(conf->cyls, 2U), 16383U);
> +
> + return changed;
This function should return int, but here we return bool. And then
we do 'if (vhost_blk_update_size() < 0) ...', which never fires.
> }
>
> -static void vhost_blk_resize(void *opaque)
> +static bool vhost_blk_open_backend(VHostBlk *s, Error **errp)
> {
> - VirtIODevice *vdev = VIRTIO_DEVICE(opaque);
> + BlockConf *conf = &s->conf.conf;
> + struct stat st;
>
> - /*
> - * virtio_notify_config() needs to acquire the global mutex,
> - * so it can't be called from an iothread. Instead, schedule
> - * it to be run in the main context BH.
> - */
> - aio_bh_schedule_oneshot(qemu_get_aio_context(), vhost_blk_resize_cb, vdev);
> -}
> + s->backend_fd = qemu_open(s->conf.devpath, O_RDWR, errp);
> + if (s->backend_fd < 0) {
> + error_prepend(errp, "vhost-blk: unable to open backend: ");
> + return false;
> + }
Suggestion: how about also checking BLKSSZGET value of the device at this
point and comparing it against conf->logical_block_size?
>
> -static const BlockDevOps vhost_blk_block_ops = {
> - .resize_cb = vhost_blk_resize,
> -};
> + if (fstat(s->backend_fd, &st) < 0) {
> + error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "vhost-blk: unable to stat '%s'",
> + s->conf.devpath);
> + goto fail;
> + }
> +
> + if (!S_ISBLK(st.st_mode)) {
> + error_setg(errp, "vhost-blk: '%s' is not a block device",
> + s->conf.devpath);
> + goto fail;
> + }
> +
> + if (vhost_blk_update_size(s, errp) < 0) {
> + goto fail;
> + }
> +
> + if (!conf->logical_block_size) {
> + conf->logical_block_size = BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE;
> + }
> +
> + if (!conf->physical_block_size) {
> + conf->physical_block_size = BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE;
> + }
> +
> + if (!blkconf_validate_blocksizes(conf, errp)) {
> + goto fail;
> + }
> +
> + return true;
> +
> +fail:
> + qemu_close(s->backend_fd);
> + s->backend_fd = -1;
> + return false;
> +}
>
> static void vhost_blk_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> {
> @@ -239,13 +283,8 @@ static void vhost_blk_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> VhostBlkConf *conf = &s->conf;
> int i, ret;
>
> - if (!conf->conf.blk) {
> - error_setg(errp, "vhost-blk: drive property not set");
> - return;
> - }
> -
> - if (!blk_is_inserted(conf->conf.blk)) {
> - error_setg(errp, "vhost-blk: device needs media, but drive is empty");
> + if (!conf->devpath) {
> + error_setg(errp, "vhost-blk: devpath property must be set");
> return;
> }
>
> @@ -273,17 +312,7 @@ static void vhost_blk_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> return;
> }
>
> - if (!blkconf_apply_backend_options(&conf->conf,
> - !blk_supports_write_perm(conf->conf.blk),
> - true, errp)) {
> - return;
> - }
> -
> - if (!blkconf_geometry(&conf->conf, NULL, 65535, 255, 255, errp)) {
> - return;
> - }
> -
> - if (!blkconf_blocksizes(&conf->conf, errp)) {
> + if (!vhost_blk_open_backend(s, errp)) {
> return;
> }
>
> @@ -311,13 +340,13 @@ static void vhost_blk_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> goto cleanup;
> }
>
> - blk_set_dev_ops(s->conf.conf.blk, &vhost_blk_block_ops, s);
> -
> ret = vhost_dev_init(&s->dev, (void *)((size_t)s->vhostfd),
> VHOST_BACKEND_TYPE_KERNEL, 0, NULL);
> if (ret < 0) {
> error_setg(errp, "vhost-blk: vhost initialization failed: %s",
> strerror(-ret));
> + /* vhost_dev_init() closes vhostfd on failure */
> + s->vhostfd = -1;
Before this patch we were doing double close(vhostfd) after vhost_dev_init()
failure. I'd make it a separate commit with a "Fixes:" tag.
> goto cleanup;
> }
>
> @@ -328,7 +357,14 @@ cleanup:
> qemu_del_vm_change_state_handler(s->mighand);
> }
> g_free(s->dev.vqs);
> - close(s->vhostfd);
> + if (s->vhostfd >= 0) {
> + close(s->vhostfd);
> + s->vhostfd = -1;
> + }
> + if (s->backend_fd >= 0) {
> + qemu_close(s->backend_fd);
> + s->backend_fd = -1;
> + }
> for (i = 0; i < conf->num_queues; i++) {
> virtio_del_queue(vdev, i);
> }
> @@ -344,6 +380,10 @@ static void vhost_blk_device_unrealize(DeviceState *dev)
> qemu_del_vm_change_state_handler(s->mighand);
> vhost_blk_set_status(vdev, 0);
> vhost_dev_cleanup(&s->dev);
> + if (s->backend_fd >= 0) {
> + qemu_close(s->backend_fd);
> + s->backend_fd = -1;
> + }
> g_free(s->dev.vqs);
> virtio_cleanup(vdev);
> }
> @@ -376,10 +416,6 @@ static uint64_t vhost_blk_get_features(VirtIODevice *vdev,
>
> virtio_add_feature(&features, VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1);
>
> - if (!blk_is_writable(s->conf.conf.blk)) {
> - virtio_add_feature(&features, VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO);
> - }
> -
> if (s->conf.num_queues > 1) {
> virtio_add_feature(&features, VIRTIO_BLK_F_MQ);
> }
> @@ -398,7 +434,9 @@ static void vhost_blk_update_config(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t *config)
> int64_t length;
> int blk_size = conf->logical_block_size;
>
> - blk_get_geometry(s->conf.conf.blk, &capacity);
> + length = s->length;
> + capacity = length / BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE;
> +
> memset(&blkcfg, 0, sizeof(blkcfg));
> virtio_stq_p(vdev, &blkcfg.capacity, capacity);
> virtio_stl_p(vdev, &blkcfg.seg_max, s->conf.queue_size - 2);
> @@ -406,7 +444,6 @@ static void vhost_blk_update_config(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t *config)
> virtio_stl_p(vdev, &blkcfg.blk_size, blk_size);
> blkcfg.geometry.heads = conf->heads;
>
> - length = blk_getlength(s->conf.conf.blk);
> if (length > 0 && length / conf->heads / conf->secs % blk_size) {
> unsigned short mask;
>
> @@ -425,7 +462,8 @@ static void vhost_blk_update_config(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t *config)
> }
>
> static const Property vhost_blk_properties[] = {
> - DEFINE_BLOCK_PROPERTIES(VHostBlk, conf.conf),
> + DEFINE_BLOCK_PROPERTIES_BASE(VHostBlk, conf.conf),
DEFINE_BLOCK_PROPERTIES_BASE() macro defines lots of properties that
make no sense without BlockBackend. E.g. backend_defaults, write-cache,
share-rw, account-invalid, account-failed, stats-intervals. We should
consider limiting the list of config properties to the ones which really
matter to us. Ideally as a separate commit.
Andrey
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Andrey Drobyshev <andrey.drobyshev@virtuozzo.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-03 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-03 12:31 [QEMU HCI-8.0 PATCH 0/5] vhost-blk " Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-09-03 12:32 ` [QEMU HCI-8.0 PATCH 1/5] blk: factor out validation Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-09-03 14:56 ` Andrey Drobyshev
2026-09-03 12:32 ` [QEMU HCI-8.0 PATCH 2/5] vhost-blk: change backend setup Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-09-03 14:56 ` Andrey Drobyshev [this message]
2026-09-03 15:27 ` Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-09-03 15:34 ` Andrey Drobyshev
2026-09-03 12:32 ` [QEMU HCI-8.0 PATCH 3/5] vhost-blk: add read-only flag Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-09-03 14:56 ` Andrey Drobyshev
2026-09-03 12:32 ` [QEMU HCI-8.0 PATCH 4/5] vhost-blk: watch the device for resize events Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-09-03 14:56 ` Andrey Drobyshev
2026-09-03 15:30 ` Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-09-03 15:45 ` Andrey Drobyshev
2026-09-03 15:50 ` Andrey Zhadchenko
2026-09-03 12:32 ` [QEMU HCI-8.0 PATCH 5/5] vhost-blk: filter uevents in the kernel Andrey Zhadchenko
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