block: BlockDriver: add .filtered_child_is_backing field

Unfortunately not all filters use .file child as filtered child. Two
exclusions are mirror_top and commit_top. Happily they both are private
filters. Bad thing is that this inconsistency is observable through qmp
commands query-block / query-named-block-nodes. So, could we just
change mirror_top and commit_top to use file child as all other filter
driver is an open question. Probably, we could do that with some kind
of deprecation period, but how to warn users during it?

For now, let's just add a field so we can distinguish them in generic
code, it will be used in further commits.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220726201134.924743-2-vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/block/block_int-common.h b/include/block/block_int-common.h
index d7c0a7e96f..95392052c9 100644
--- a/include/block/block_int-common.h
+++ b/include/block/block_int-common.h
@@ -120,6 +120,19 @@ struct BlockDriver {
      */
     bool is_filter;
     /*
+     * Only make sense for filter drivers, for others must be false.
+     * If true, filtered child is bs->backing. Otherwise it's bs->file.
+     * Only two internal filters use bs->backing as filtered child and has this
+     * field set to true: mirror_top and commit_top.
+     *
+     * Never create any more such filters!
+     *
+     * TODO: imagine how to deprecate this behavior and make all filters work
+     * similarly using bs->file as filtered child.
+     */
+    bool filtered_child_is_backing;
+
+    /*
      * Set to true if the BlockDriver is a format driver.  Format nodes
      * generally do not expect their children to be other format nodes
      * (except for backing files), and so format probing is disabled