Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/maxreitz/tags/pull-block-2020-08-26' into staging

Block patches:
- qcow2 subclusters (extended L2 entries)

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/maxreitz/tags/pull-block-2020-08-26' into staging

Block patches:
- qcow2 subclusters (extended L2 entries)

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* remotes/maxreitz/tags/pull-block-2020-08-26: (34 commits)
iotests: Add tests for qcow2 images with extended L2 entries
qcow2: Assert that expand_zero_clusters_in_l1() does not support subclusters
qcow2: Allow preallocation and backing files if extended_l2 is set
qcow2: Add the 'extended_l2' option and the QCOW2_INCOMPAT_EXTL2 bit
qcow2: Add prealloc field to QCowL2Meta
qcow2: Add subcluster support to qcow2_measure()
qcow2: Add subcluster support to qcow2_co_pwrite_zeroes()
qcow2: Add subcluster support to handle_alloc_space()
qcow2: Clear the L2 bitmap when allocating a compressed cluster
qcow2: Update L2 bitmap in qcow2_alloc_cluster_link_l2()
qcow2: Add subcluster support to check_refcounts_l2()
qcow2: Add subcluster support to discard_in_l2_slice()
qcow2: Add subcluster support to zero_in_l2_slice()
qcow2: Add subcluster support to qcow2_get_host_offset()
qcow2: Add subcluster support to calculate_l2_meta()
qcow2: Handle QCOW2_SUBCLUSTER_UNALLOCATED_ALLOC
qcow2: Replace QCOW2_CLUSTER_* with QCOW2_SUBCLUSTER_*
qcow2: Add cluster type parameter to qcow2_get_host_offset()
qcow2: Add qcow2_cluster_is_allocated()
qcow2: Add qcow2_get_subcluster_range_type()
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qcow2: Document the Extended L2 Entries feature

Subcluster allocation in qcow2 is implemented by extending the
existing L2 table entries and adding additional information to
indicate the allocation

qcow2: Document the Extended L2 Entries feature

Subcluster allocation in qcow2 is implemented by extending the
existing L2 table entries and adding additional information to
indicate the allocation status of each subcluster.

This patch documents the changes to the qcow2 format and how they
affect the calculation of the L2 cache size.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <5199f2e1c717bcaa58b48142c9062b803145ff7f.1594396418.git.berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches:

- qcow2: Support for external data files
- qcow2: Default to 4KB for the qcow2 cache entry size
- Ap

Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches:

- qcow2: Support for external data files
- qcow2: Default to 4KB for the qcow2 cache entry size
- Apply block driver whitelist for -drive format=help
- Several qemu-iotests improvements

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* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream: (33 commits)
qcow2 spec: Describe string header extensions
qemu-iotests: Add dependency to qemu-nbd tool
ahci-test: Add dependency to qemu-img tool
qemu-iotests: amend with external data file
qemu-iotests: General tests for qcow2 with external data file
qemu-iotests: Preallocation with external data file
qcow2: Implement data-file-raw create option
qcow2: Store data file name in the image
qcow2: Creating images with external data file
qcow2: Add basic data-file infrastructure
qcow2: Support external data file in qemu-img check
qcow2: Return error for snapshot operation with data file
qcow2: External file I/O
qcow2: Prepare qcow2_co_block_status() for data file
qcow2: Return 0/-errno in qcow2_alloc_compressed_cluster_offset()
qcow2: Don't assume 0 is an invalid cluster offset
qcow2: Prepare count_contiguous_clusters() for external data file
qcow2: Prepare qcow2_get_cluster_type() for external data file
qcow2: Pass bs to qcow2_get_cluster_type()
qcow2: Basic definitions for external data files
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qcow2: Default to 4KB for the qcow2 cache entry size

QEMU 2.12 (commit 1221fe6f636754ab5f2c1c87caa77633e9123622) introduced
a new setting called l2-cache-entry-size that allows making entries on
the

qcow2: Default to 4KB for the qcow2 cache entry size

QEMU 2.12 (commit 1221fe6f636754ab5f2c1c87caa77633e9123622) introduced
a new setting called l2-cache-entry-size that allows making entries on
the qcow2 L2 cache smaller than the cluster size.

I have been performing several tests with different cluster and entry
sizes and all of them show that reducing the entry size (aka L2 slice)
consistently improves I/O performance, notably during random I/O (all
tests done with sequential I/O show similar results). This is to be
expected because loading and evicting an L2 slice is more expensive
the larger the slice is.

Here are some numbers on fully populated 40GB qcow2 images. The
rightmost column represents the maximum L2 cache size in both cases.

Cluster size = 64 KB
|-------------+--------------+--------------+--------------|
| | 1MB L2 cache | 3MB L2 cache | 5MB L2 cache |
|-------------+--------------+--------------+--------------|
| 4KB slices | 6545 IOPS | 12045 IOPS | 55680 IOPS |
| 16KB slices | 5177 IOPS | 9798 IOPS | 56278 IOPS |
| 64KB slices | 2718 IOPS | 5326 IOPS | 57355 IOPS |
|-------------+--------------+--------------+--------------|

Cluster size = 256 KB
|--------------+----------------+--------------+-----------------|
| | 512KB L2 cache | 1MB L2 cache | 1280KB L2 cache |
|--------------+----------------+--------------+-----------------|
| 4KB slices | 8539 IOPS | 21071 IOPS | 55417 IOPS |
| 64KB slices | 3598 IOPS | 9772 IOPS | 57687 IOPS |
| 256KB slices | 1415 IOPS | 4120 IOPS | 58001 IOPS |
|--------------+----------------+--------------+-----------------|

As can be seen in the numbers, the only exception to the rule is when
the cache is large enough to hold all L2 tables. This is also to be
expected because in this case no cache entry is ever evicted so
reducing its size doesn't bring any benefit.

This patch sets the default L2 cache entry size to 4KB except when the
cache is large enough for the whole disk.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/vivier2/tags/trivial-branch-pull-request' into staging

trivial patches pull request (20190206)

- acpi: remove unused functions/variables
- tests: remove useles

Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/vivier2/tags/trivial-branch-pull-request' into staging

trivial patches pull request (20190206)

- acpi: remove unused functions/variables
- tests: remove useless architecture checks
- some typo fixes and documentation update
- flash_cfi02: fix memory leak

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* remotes/vivier2/tags/trivial-branch-pull-request:
thunk: fix of malloc to g_new
hostmem-file: simplify ifdef-s in file_backend_memory_alloc()
build: Correct explanation of unnest-vars example
bswap: Fix accessors syntax in comment
doc: fix typos for documents in tree
block/pflash_cfi02: Fix memory leak and potential use-after-free
hw/acpi: remove unnecessary variable acpi_table_builtin
hw/acpi: remove unused function acpi_table_add_builtin()
hw/i386/pc.c: remove unused function pc_acpi_init()
tests: Remove (mostly) useless architecture checks

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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doc: fix typos for documents in tree

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Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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doc: fix typos for documents in tree

Signed-off-by: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1550640446-18788-1-git-send-email-like.xu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches:

- qcow2 cache option default changes (Linux: 32 MB maximum, limited by
whatever cache size can be

Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches:

- qcow2 cache option default changes (Linux: 32 MB maximum, limited by
whatever cache size can be made use of with the specific image;
default cache-clean-interval of 10 minutes)
- reopen: Allow specifying unchanged child node references, and changing
a few generic options (discard, detect-zeroes)
- Fix werror/rerror defaults for -device drive=<node-name>
- Test case fixes

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* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream: (23 commits)
tests/test-bdrv-drain: Fix too late qemu_event_reset()
test-replication: Lock AioContext around blk_unref()
qcow2: Fix cache-clean-interval documentation
block-backend: Set werror/rerror defaults in blk_new()
qcow2: Explicit number replaced by a constant
qcow2: Set the default cache-clean-interval to 10 minutes
qcow2: Resize the cache upon image resizing
qcow2: Increase the default upper limit on the L2 cache size
qcow2: Assign the L2 cache relatively to the image size
qcow2: Avoid duplication in setting the refcount cache size
qcow2: Make sizes more humanly readable
include: Add a lookup table of sizes
qcow2: Options' documentation fixes
block: Allow changing 'detect-zeroes' on reopen
block: Allow changing 'discard' on reopen
file-posix: Forbid trying to change unsupported options during reopen
block: Forbid trying to change unsupported options during reopen
block: Allow child references on reopen
block: Don't look for child references in append_open_options()
block: Remove child references from bs->{options,explicit_options}
...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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qcow2: Fix cache-clean-interval documentation

Fixing cache-clean-interval documentation following the recent change to
a default of 600 seconds on supported plarforms (only Linux currently).

Signed

qcow2: Fix cache-clean-interval documentation

Fixing cache-clean-interval documentation following the recent change to
a default of 600 seconds on supported plarforms (only Linux currently).

Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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qcow2: Set the default cache-clean-interval to 10 minutes

The default cache-clean-interval is set to 10 minutes, in order to lower
the overhead of the qcow2 caches (before the default was 0, i.e.
di

qcow2: Set the default cache-clean-interval to 10 minutes

The default cache-clean-interval is set to 10 minutes, in order to lower
the overhead of the qcow2 caches (before the default was 0, i.e.
disabled).

* For non-Linux platforms the default is kept at 0, because
cache-clean-interval is not supported there yet.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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qcow2: Increase the default upper limit on the L2 cache size

The upper limit on the L2 cache size is increased from 1 MB to 32 MB
on Linux platforms, and to 8 MB on other platforms (this difference

qcow2: Increase the default upper limit on the L2 cache size

The upper limit on the L2 cache size is increased from 1 MB to 32 MB
on Linux platforms, and to 8 MB on other platforms (this difference is
caused by the ability to set intervals for cache cleaning on Linux
platforms only).

This is done in order to allow default full coverage with the L2 cache
for images of up to 256 GB in size (was 8 GB). Note, that only the
needed amount to cover the full image is allocated. The value which is
changed here is just the upper limit on the L2 cache size, beyond which
it will not grow, even if the size of the image will require it to.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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qcow2: Assign the L2 cache relatively to the image size

Sufficient L2 cache can noticeably improve the performance when using
large images with frequent I/O.

Previously, unless 'cache-size' was spe

qcow2: Assign the L2 cache relatively to the image size

Sufficient L2 cache can noticeably improve the performance when using
large images with frequent I/O.

Previously, unless 'cache-size' was specified and was large enough, the
L2 cache was set to a certain size without taking the virtual image size
into account.

Now, the L2 cache assignment is aware of the virtual size of the image,
and will cover the entire image, unless the cache size needed for that is
larger than a certain maximum. This maximum is set to 1 MB by default
(enough to cover an 8 GB image with the default cluster size) but can
be increased or decreased using the 'l2-cache-size' option. This option
was previously documented as the *maximum* L2 cache size, and this patch
makes it behave as such, instead of as a constant size. Also, the
existing option 'cache-size' can limit the sum of both L2 and refcount
caches, as previously.

Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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qcow2: Options' documentation fixes

Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin

qcow2: Options' documentation fixes

Signed-off-by: Leonid Bloch <lbloch@janustech.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches:

- Switch AIO/callback based block drivers to a byte-based interface
- Block jobs: Expose error strin

Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches:

- Switch AIO/callback based block drivers to a byte-based interface
- Block jobs: Expose error string via query-block-jobs
- Block job cleanups and fixes
- hmp: Allow using a qdev id in block_set_io_throttle

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* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream: (37 commits)
iotests: Add test for -U/force-share conflicts
qemu-img: Use only string options in img_open_opts
qemu-io: Use purely string blockdev options
block: Document BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED support
qemu-img: Check post-truncation size
iotests: Add test for COR across nodes
iotests: Copy 197 for COR filter driver
iotests: Clean up wrap image in 197
block: Support BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED in filters
block/quorum: Support BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED
block: Set BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED for COR writes
block: Add BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED flag
block: BLK_PERM_WRITE includes ..._UNCHANGED
block: Add COR filter driver
iotests: Skip 181 and 201 without userfaultfd
iotests: Add failure matching to common.qemu
docs: Document the new default sizes of the qcow2 caches
qcow2: Give the refcount cache the minimum possible size by default
specs/qcow2: Clarify that compressed clusters have the COPIED bit reset
Fix error message about compressed clusters with OFLAG_COPIED
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Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'mreitz/tags/pull-block-2018-05-15' into queue-block

- Copy-on-read block driver
- The qcow2 default refcount cache size has been decreased
- Various bug fixes

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'mreitz/tags/pull-block-2018-05-15' into queue-block

- Copy-on-read block driver
- The qcow2 default refcount cache size has been decreased
- Various bug fixes

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* mreitz/tags/pull-block-2018-05-15: (21 commits)
iotests: Add test for -U/force-share conflicts
qemu-img: Use only string options in img_open_opts
qemu-io: Use purely string blockdev options
block: Document BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED support
qemu-img: Check post-truncation size
iotests: Add test for COR across nodes
iotests: Copy 197 for COR filter driver
iotests: Clean up wrap image in 197
block: Support BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED in filters
block/quorum: Support BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED
block: Set BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED for COR writes
block: Add BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED flag
block: BLK_PERM_WRITE includes ..._UNCHANGED
block: Add COR filter driver
iotests: Skip 181 and 201 without userfaultfd
iotests: Add failure matching to common.qemu
docs: Document the new default sizes of the qcow2 caches
qcow2: Give the refcount cache the minimum possible size by default
specs/qcow2: Clarify that compressed clusters have the COPIED bit reset
Fix error message about compressed clusters with OFLAG_COPIED
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Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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docs: Document the new default sizes of the qcow2 caches

We have just reduced the refcount cache size to the minimum unless
the user explicitly requests a larger one, so we have to update the
docume

docs: Document the new default sizes of the qcow2 caches

We have just reduced the refcount cache size to the minimum unless
the user explicitly requests a larger one, so we have to update the
documentation to reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: c5f0bde23558dd9d33b21fffc76ac9953cc19c56.1523968389.git.berto@igalia.com
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches

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* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream: (38 commits)
block: Fix NULL dereference on empty drive error
qcow2: Replace align_offset() with ROUND_UP()
block/ssh: Add basic .bdrv_truncate()
block/ssh: Make ssh_grow_file() blocking
block/ssh: Pull ssh_grow_file() from ssh_create()
qemu-img: Make resize error message more general
qcow2: make qcow2_co_create2() a coroutine_fn
block: rename .bdrv_create() to .bdrv_co_create_opts()
Revert "IDE: Do not flush empty CDROM drives"
block: test blk_aio_flush() with blk->root == NULL
block: add BlockBackend->in_flight counter
block: extract AIO_WAIT_WHILE() from BlockDriverState
aio: rename aio_context_in_iothread() to in_aio_context_home_thread()
docs: document how to use the l2-cache-entry-size parameter
specs/qcow2: Fix documentation of the compressed cluster descriptor
iotest 033: add misaligned write-zeroes test via truncate
block: fix write with zero flag set and iovector provided
block: Drop unused .bdrv_co_get_block_status()
vvfat: Switch to .bdrv_co_block_status()
vpc: Switch to .bdrv_co_block_status()
...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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# include/block/block.h

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docs: document how to use the l2-cache-entry-size parameter

This patch updates docs/qcow2-cache.txt explaining how to use the new
l2-cache-entry-size parameter.

Here's a more detailed technical des

docs: document how to use the l2-cache-entry-size parameter

This patch updates docs/qcow2-cache.txt explaining how to use the new
l2-cache-entry-size parameter.

Here's a more detailed technical description of this feature:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2017-09/msg00635.html

And here are some performance numbers:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2017-12/msg00507.html

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mjt/tags/trivial-patches-fetch' into staging

trivial patches for 2017-07-31

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mjt/tags/trivial-patches-fetch' into staging

trivial patches for 2017-07-31

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* remotes/mjt/tags/trivial-patches-fetch: (25 commits)
docs: fix broken paths to docs/specs/ivshmem-spec.txt
docs: fix broken paths to docs/config/ich9-ehci-uhci.cfg
docs: fix broken paths to docs/devel/tracing.txt
docs: fix broken paths to docs/devel/atomics.txt
docs: fix broken paths to docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt
docs: fix broken paths to docs/interop/qcow2.txt
docs: fix broken paths to docs/interop dir
thunk: assert nb_fields is valid
syscall: check inotify() and eventfd() return value
syscall: fix use of uninitialized values
syscall: fix dereference of undefined pointer
linux-user/sh4: fix incorrect memory write
m68k/translate: fix incorrect copy/paste
net/eth: fix incorrect check of iov_to_buf() return value
ui/vnc: fix leak of SocketAddress **
qcow2: fix null pointer dereference
ivshmem: fix incorrect error handling in ivshmem_recv_msg()
loader: check get_image_size() return value
tests: add missing dependency to build QTEST_QEMU_BINARY
qemu-system-tricore: segfault when entering "x 0" on the monitor
...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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docs: fix broken paths to docs/interop/qcow2.txt

With the move of some docs to docs/interop on d59157ea05,
a reference path was not updated.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>

docs: fix broken paths to docs/interop/qcow2.txt

With the move of some docs to docs/interop on d59157ea05,
a reference path was not updated.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches for 2.8.0-rc2

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'kwolf/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches for 2.8.0-rc2

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* kwolf/tags/for-upstream:
docs: Specify that cache-clean-interval is only supported in Linux
qcow2: Remove stale comment
qcow2: Allow 'cache-clean-interval' in Linux only
qcow2: Make qcow2_cache_table_release() work only in Linux

Message-id: 1480436227-2211-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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docs: Specify that cache-clean-interval is only supported in Linux

Make it clear that having Linux is a hard requirement for this
feature.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-of

docs: Specify that cache-clean-interval is only supported in Linux

Make it clear that having Linux is a hard requirement for this
feature.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches

# gpg: Signature made Fri 04 Sep 2015 20:45:33 BST using RSA key ID C88F2FD6
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches

# gpg: Signature made Fri 04 Sep 2015 20:45:33 BST using RSA key ID C88F2FD6
# gpg: Good signature from "Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>"

* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream:
quorum: validate vote threshold against num_children even if read-pattern is fifo
qcow2: reorder fields in Qcow2CachedTable to reduce padding
docs: document how to configure the qcow2 L2/refcount caches
qcow2: add option to clean unused cache entries after some time
qcow2: mark the memory as no longer needed after qcow2_cache_empty()
iotests: Warn if python subprocess is killed
iotests: Do not suppress segfaults in bash tests
iotests: Respect -nodefaults in tests 41 and 55
iotests: More options for VM.add_drive()
qemu-img: Fix crash in amend invocation
block/raw-posix: Use raw_normalize_devicepath()
qemu-iotests: s390x: fix test 130
qemu-iotests: s390x: fix test 049, reject negative sizes in QemuOpts
qemu-iotests: s390x: fix test 041 and 055
qemu-iotests: disable default qemu devices for cross-platform compatibility
qemu-iotests: qemu machine type support

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'mreitz/tags/pull-block-for-kevin-2015-09-04' into queue-block

Block patches from 2015-08-24 until 2015-09-04.

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'mreitz/tags/pull-block-for-kevin-2015-09-04' into queue-block

Block patches from 2015-08-24 until 2015-09-04.

# gpg: Signature made Fri Sep 4 21:02:10 2015 CEST using RSA key ID E838ACAD
# gpg: Good signature from "Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>"

* mreitz/tags/pull-block-for-kevin-2015-09-04:
quorum: validate vote threshold against num_children even if read-pattern is fifo
qcow2: reorder fields in Qcow2CachedTable to reduce padding
docs: document how to configure the qcow2 L2/refcount caches
qcow2: add option to clean unused cache entries after some time
qcow2: mark the memory as no longer needed after qcow2_cache_empty()

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

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docs: document how to configure the qcow2 L2/refcount caches

QEMU has options to configure the size of the L2 and refcount
caches for the qcow2 format. However, choosing the right sizes for
a partic

docs: document how to configure the qcow2 L2/refcount caches

QEMU has options to configure the size of the L2 and refcount
caches for the qcow2 format. However, choosing the right sizes for
a particular disk image is not a straightforward operation since
the ratio between the cache size and the allocated disk space is
not obvious and depends on the size of the cluster and the refcount
entries.

This document attempts to give an overview of both caches and how to
configure their sizes.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 55de928e139b1ba3f3d40fe9c6c88f30b1f36410.1438690126.git.berto@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

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