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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2018-03-06 11:20:44 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2018-03-06 11:20:44 +0000
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging
Block layer patches

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* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream: (38 commits)
  block: Fix NULL dereference on empty drive error
  qcow2: Replace align_offset() with ROUND_UP()
  block/ssh: Add basic .bdrv_truncate()
  block/ssh: Make ssh_grow_file() blocking
  block/ssh: Pull ssh_grow_file() from ssh_create()
  qemu-img: Make resize error message more general
  qcow2: make qcow2_co_create2() a coroutine_fn
  block: rename .bdrv_create() to .bdrv_co_create_opts()
  Revert "IDE: Do not flush empty CDROM drives"
  block: test blk_aio_flush() with blk->root == NULL
  block: add BlockBackend->in_flight counter
  block: extract AIO_WAIT_WHILE() from BlockDriverState
  aio: rename aio_context_in_iothread() to in_aio_context_home_thread()
  docs: document how to use the l2-cache-entry-size parameter
  specs/qcow2: Fix documentation of the compressed cluster descriptor
  iotest 033: add misaligned write-zeroes test via truncate
  block: fix write with zero flag set and iovector provided
  block: Drop unused .bdrv_co_get_block_status()
  vvfat: Switch to .bdrv_co_block_status()
  vpc: Switch to .bdrv_co_block_status()
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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#	include/block/block.h
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diff --git a/docs/interop/qcow2.txt b/docs/interop/qcow2.txt
index d7fdb1fee3..feb711fb6a 100644
--- a/docs/interop/qcow2.txt
+++ b/docs/interop/qcow2.txt
@@ -426,10 +426,20 @@ Standard Cluster Descriptor:
 
 Compressed Clusters Descriptor (x = 62 - (cluster_bits - 8)):
 
-    Bit  0 -  x:    Host cluster offset. This is usually _not_ aligned to a
-                    cluster boundary!
+    Bit  0 - x-1:   Host cluster offset. This is usually _not_ aligned to a
+                    cluster or sector boundary!
 
-       x+1 - 61:    Compressed size of the images in sectors of 512 bytes
+         x - 61:    Number of additional 512-byte sectors used for the
+                    compressed data, beyond the sector containing the offset
+                    in the previous field. Some of these sectors may reside
+                    in the next contiguous host cluster.
+
+                    Note that the compressed data does not necessarily occupy
+                    all of the bytes in the final sector; rather, decompression
+                    stops when it has produced a cluster of data.
+
+                    Another compressed cluster may map to the tail of the final
+                    sector used by this compressed cluster.
 
 If a cluster is unallocated, read requests shall read the data from the backing
 file (except if bit 0 in the Standard Cluster Descriptor is set). If there is