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[PULL,25/37] block: BLK_PERM_WRITE includes ..._UNCHANGED

Message ID 20180515154033.19899-26-kwolf@redhat.com
State New
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Series [PULL,01/37] block-backend: simplify blk_get_aio_context | expand

Commit Message

Kevin Wolf May 15, 2018, 3:40 p.m. UTC 
From: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

Currently we never actually check whether the WRITE_UNCHANGED
permission has been taken for unchanging writes.  But the one check that
is commented out checks both WRITE and WRITE_UNCHANGED; and considering
that WRITE_UNCHANGED is already documented as being weaker than WRITE,
we should probably explicitly document WRITE to include WRITE_UNCHANGED.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: 20180421132929.21610-3-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
---
 include/block/block.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h
index cdec3639a3..397b5e8d44 100644
--- a/include/block/block.h
+++ b/include/block/block.h
@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@  enum {
      * This permission (which is weaker than BLK_PERM_WRITE) is both enough and
      * required for writes to the block node when the caller promises that
      * the visible disk content doesn't change.
+     *
+     * As the BLK_PERM_WRITE permission is strictly stronger, either is
+     * sufficient to perform an unchanging write.
      */
     BLK_PERM_WRITE_UNCHANGED    = 0x04,