block: Add BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED flag

This flag signifies that a write request will not change the visible
disk content.  With this flag set, it is sufficient to have the
BLK_PERM_WRITE_UNCHANGED permission instead of BLK_PERM_WRITE.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-id: 20180421132929.21610-4-mreitz@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/block/io.c b/block/io.c
index 4fad5ac..9e8449e 100644
--- a/block/io.c
+++ b/block/io.c
@@ -1504,7 +1504,11 @@ static int coroutine_fn bdrv_aligned_pwritev(BdrvChild *child,
     assert(!waited || !req->serialising);
     assert(req->overlap_offset <= offset);
     assert(offset + bytes <= req->overlap_offset + req->overlap_bytes);
-    assert(child->perm & BLK_PERM_WRITE);
+    if (flags & BDRV_REQ_WRITE_UNCHANGED) {
+        assert(child->perm & (BLK_PERM_WRITE_UNCHANGED | BLK_PERM_WRITE));
+    } else {
+        assert(child->perm & BLK_PERM_WRITE);
+    }
     assert(end_sector <= bs->total_sectors || child->perm & BLK_PERM_RESIZE);
 
     ret = notifier_with_return_list_notify(&bs->before_write_notifiers, req);