virtio-blk: disable write cache if not negotiated
authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Thu, 9 Aug 2012 14:07:20 +0000 (16:07 +0200)
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Fri, 10 Aug 2012 08:25:12 +0000 (10:25 +0200)
If the guest does not support flushes, we should run in writethrough mode.
The setting is temporary until the next reset, so that for example the
BIOS will run in writethrough mode while Linux will run with a writeback
cache.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
hw/virtio-blk.c

index 97bb4bdc7c684ddd7ebf901826ad399f29e3848f..fd8fa9079253135e9f3a929e90b6fb51f60c5029 100644 (file)
@@ -543,6 +543,19 @@ static uint32_t virtio_blk_get_features(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint32_t features)
     return features;
 }
 
+static void virtio_blk_set_status(VirtIODevice *vdev, uint8_t status)
+{
+    VirtIOBlock *s = to_virtio_blk(vdev);
+    uint32_t features;
+
+    if (!(status & VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK)) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    features = vdev->guest_features;
+    bdrv_set_enable_write_cache(s->bs, !!(features & (1 << VIRTIO_BLK_F_WCE)));
+}
+
 static void virtio_blk_save(QEMUFile *f, void *opaque)
 {
     VirtIOBlock *s = opaque;
@@ -623,6 +636,7 @@ VirtIODevice *virtio_blk_init(DeviceState *dev, VirtIOBlkConf *blk)
     s->vdev.get_config = virtio_blk_update_config;
     s->vdev.set_config = virtio_blk_set_config;
     s->vdev.get_features = virtio_blk_get_features;
+    s->vdev.set_status = virtio_blk_set_status;
     s->vdev.reset = virtio_blk_reset;
     s->bs = blk->conf.bs;
     s->conf = &blk->conf;