tools/libxl: Allow limiting amount copied by datacopier
authorRoss Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:29:52 +0000 (13:29 +0000)
committerIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:31:57 +0000 (11:31 +0000)
commitc9f8db9b1653400d0d11f56bed750e210e8f2360
tree125e08b4d60d549d2a5679ec6b5dc4cda31d5780
parent8aaeef92c98e8c131b76e996dda7a456402c8a5a
tools/libxl: Allow limiting amount copied by datacopier

Currently, a datacopier will unconditionally read until EOF on its read fd.

For migration v2, libxl needs to read records of a specific length out of the
migration stream, without reading any further data.

Introduce a parameter, bytes_to_read, which may be used to stop the datacopier
ahead of reaching EOF. If bytes_to_read is set to -1, then the datacopier will
read until EOF.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
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Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
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CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
tools/libxl/libxl_aoutils.c
tools/libxl/libxl_bootloader.c
tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c
tools/libxl/libxl_internal.h