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| author | Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> | 2023-04-28 10:55:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> | 2023-04-28 10:55:57 +0100 |
| commit | 2074424ef6ecf44f6b3765c5ef89ee21dafa6b01 (patch) | |
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| parent | 05d50ba2d4668d43a835c5a502efdec9b92646e6 (diff) | |
| parent | 50795ee051a342c681a9b45671c552fbd6274db8 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'pull-request-2023-04-28' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu into staging
* Prevent reentrant DMA accesses by default
* Only compile hw/rdma code when necessary
* Fix a potential locking issue in the vhost-user-test
* Offer more registers in GDB for s390x TCG
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* tag 'pull-request-2023-04-28' of https://gitlab.com/thuth/qemu:
apic: disable reentrancy detection for apic-msi
raven: disable reentrancy detection for iomem
bcm2835_property: disable reentrancy detection for iomem
lsi53c895a: disable reentrancy detection for script RAM
hw: replace most qemu_bh_new calls with qemu_bh_new_guarded
checkpatch: add qemu_bh_new/aio_bh_new checks
async: Add an optional reentrancy guard to the BH API
memory: prevent dma-reentracy issues
tests: vhost-user-test: release mutex on protocol violation
hw/rdma: VMW_PVRDMA should depend on VMXNET3_PCI
hw/rdma: Compile target-independent parts of the rdma code only once
hw/rdma: Remove unused macros PG_DIR_SZ and PG_TBL_SZ
s390x/gdb: Split s390-virt.xml
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt b/docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt index 343120f..a3e949f 100644 --- a/docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt +++ b/docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ There are several old APIs that use the main loop AioContext: * LEGACY qemu_aio_set_event_notifier() - monitor an event notifier * LEGACY timer_new_ms() - create a timer * LEGACY qemu_bh_new() - create a BH + * LEGACY qemu_bh_new_guarded() - create a BH with a device re-entrancy guard * LEGACY qemu_aio_wait() - run an event loop iteration Since they implicitly work on the main loop they cannot be used in code that @@ -72,8 +73,14 @@ Instead, use the AioContext functions directly (see include/block/aio.h): * aio_set_event_notifier() - monitor an event notifier * aio_timer_new() - create a timer * aio_bh_new() - create a BH + * aio_bh_new_guarded() - create a BH with a device re-entrancy guard * aio_poll() - run an event loop iteration +The qemu_bh_new_guarded/aio_bh_new_guarded APIs accept a "MemReentrancyGuard" +argument, which is used to check for and prevent re-entrancy problems. For +BHs associated with devices, the reentrancy-guard is contained in the +corresponding DeviceState and named "mem_reentrancy_guard". + The AioContext can be obtained from the IOThread using iothread_get_aio_context() or for the main loop using qemu_get_aio_context(). Code that takes an AioContext argument works both in IOThreads or the main |