qcow2: keep reference on zeroize with discard-no-unref enabled
When the discard-no-unref flag is enabled, we keep the reference for normal discard requests. But when a discard is executed on a snapshot/qcow2 image with backing, the discards are saved as zero clusters in the snapshot image. When committing the snapshot to the backing file, not discard_in_l2_slice is called but zero_in_l2_slice. Which did not had any logic to keep the reference when discard-no-unref is enabled. Therefor we add logic in the zero_in_l2_slice call to keep the reference on commit. Fixes: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1621 Signed-off-by: Jean-Louis Dupond <jean-louis@dupond.be> Message-Id: <20231003125236.216473-2-jean-louis@dupond.be> [hreitz: Made the documentation change more verbose, as discussed on-list] Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
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# @pass-discard-other: whether discard requests for the data source
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# should be issued on other occasions where a cluster gets freed
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#
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# @discard-no-unref: when enabled, discards from the guest will not
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# cause cluster allocations to be relinquished. This prevents
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# qcow2 fragmentation that would be caused by such discards.
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# Besides potential performance degradation, such fragmentation
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# can lead to increased allocation of clusters past the end of the
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# image file, resulting in image files whose file length can grow
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# much larger than their guest disk size would suggest. If image
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# file length is of concern (e.g. when storing qcow2 images
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# directly on block devices), you should consider enabling this
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# option. (since 8.1)
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# @discard-no-unref: when enabled, data clusters will remain
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# preallocated when they are no longer used, e.g. because they are
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# discarded or converted to zero clusters. As usual, whether the
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# old data is discarded or kept on the protocol level (i.e. in the
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# image file) depends on the setting of the pass-discard-request
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# option. Keeping the clusters preallocated prevents qcow2
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# fragmentation that would otherwise be caused by freeing and
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# re-allocating them later. Besides potential performance
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# degradation, such fragmentation can lead to increased allocation
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# of clusters past the end of the image file, resulting in image
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# files whose file length can grow much larger than their guest disk
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# size would suggest. If image file length is of concern (e.g. when
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# storing qcow2 images directly on block devices), you should
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# consider enabling this option. (since 8.1)
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#
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# @overlap-check: which overlap checks to perform for writes to the
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# image, defaults to 'cached' (since 2.2)
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