qapi: Introduce blockdev-group-snapshot-sync command

This is a QAPI/QMP only command to take a snapshot of a group of
devices. This is similar to the blockdev-snapshot-sync command, except
blockdev-group-snapshot-sync accepts a list devices, filenames, and
formats.

It is attempted to keep the snapshot of the group atomic; if the
creation or open of any of the new snapshots fails, then all of
the new snapshots are abandoned, and the name of the snapshot image
that failed is returned.  The failure case should not interrupt
any operations.

Rather than use bdrv_close() along with a subsequent bdrv_open() to
perform the pivot, the original image is never closed and the new
image is placed 'in front' of the original image via manipulation
of the BlockDriverState fields.  Thus, once the new snapshot image
has been successfully created, there are no more failure points
before pivoting to the new snapshot.

This allows the group of disks to remain consistent with each other,
even across snapshot failures.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block_int.h b/block_int.h
index bd86af00a2..b460c369ca 100644
--- a/block_int.h
+++ b/block_int.h
@@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ struct BlockDriver {
     QLIST_ENTRY(BlockDriver) list;
 };
 
+/*
+ * Note: the function bdrv_append() copies and swaps contents of
+ * BlockDriverStates, so if you add new fields to this struct, please
+ * inspect bdrv_append() to determine if the new fields need to be
+ * copied as well.
+ */
 struct BlockDriverState {
     int64_t total_sectors; /* if we are reading a disk image, give its
                               size in sectors */