block: flush backing_hd in the right place

The backing device is only modified from bdrv_commit.  So instead of
flushing it every time bdrv_flush is called for the front-end device
only flush it after we're written data to it in bdrv_commit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index c7bc837..115e591 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -594,6 +594,12 @@ int bdrv_commit(BlockDriverState *bs)
     if (drv->bdrv_make_empty)
 	return drv->bdrv_make_empty(bs);
 
+    /*
+     * Make sure all data we wrote to the backing device is actually
+     * stable on disk.
+     */
+    if (bs->backing_hd)
+        bdrv_flush(bs->backing_hd);
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1115,12 +1121,8 @@ const char *bdrv_get_device_name(BlockDriverState *bs)
 
 void bdrv_flush(BlockDriverState *bs)
 {
-    if (!bs->drv)
-        return;
-    if (bs->drv->bdrv_flush)
+    if (bs->drv && bs->drv->bdrv_flush)
         bs->drv->bdrv_flush(bs);
-    if (bs->backing_hd)
-        bdrv_flush(bs->backing_hd);
 }
 
 void bdrv_flush_all(void)
@@ -1797,11 +1799,6 @@ BlockDriverAIOCB *bdrv_aio_flush(BlockDriverState *bs,
 
     if (!drv)
         return NULL;
-
-    /*
-     * Note that unlike bdrv_flush the driver is reponsible for flushing a
-     * backing image if it exists.
-     */
     return drv->bdrv_aio_flush(bs, cb, opaque);
 }