accel: introduce accelerator blocker API

This API allows the accelerators to prevent vcpus from issuing
new ioctls while execting a critical section marked with the
accel_ioctl_inhibit_begin/end functions.

Note that all functions submitting ioctls must mark where the
ioctl is being called with accel_{cpu_}ioctl_begin/end().

This API requires the caller to always hold the BQL.
API documentation is in sysemu/accel-blocker.h

Internally, it uses a QemuLockCnt together with a per-CPU QemuLockCnt
(to minimize cache line bouncing) to keep avoid that new ioctls
run when the critical section starts, and a QemuEvent to wait
that all running ioctls finish.

Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20221111154758.1372674-2-eesposit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/sysemu/accel-blocker.h b/include/sysemu/accel-blocker.h
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+/*
+ * Accelerator blocking API, to prevent new ioctls from starting and wait the
+ * running ones finish.
+ * This mechanism differs from pause/resume_all_vcpus() in that it does not
+ * release the BQL.
+ *
+ *  Copyright (c) 2022 Red Hat Inc.
+ *
+ * Author: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito       <eesposit@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+#ifndef ACCEL_BLOCKER_H
+#define ACCEL_BLOCKER_H
+
+#include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "sysemu/cpus.h"
+
+extern void accel_blocker_init(void);
+
+/*
+ * accel_{cpu_}ioctl_begin/end:
+ * Mark when ioctl is about to run or just finished.
+ *
+ * accel_{cpu_}ioctl_begin will block after accel_ioctl_inhibit_begin() is
+ * called, preventing new ioctls to run. They will continue only after
+ * accel_ioctl_inibith_end().
+ */
+extern void accel_ioctl_begin(void);
+extern void accel_ioctl_end(void);
+extern void accel_cpu_ioctl_begin(CPUState *cpu);
+extern void accel_cpu_ioctl_end(CPUState *cpu);
+
+/*
+ * accel_ioctl_inhibit_begin: start critical section
+ *
+ * This function makes sure that:
+ * 1) incoming accel_{cpu_}ioctl_begin() calls block
+ * 2) wait that all ioctls that were already running reach
+ *    accel_{cpu_}ioctl_end(), kicking vcpus if necessary.
+ *
+ * This allows the caller to access shared data or perform operations without
+ * worrying of concurrent vcpus accesses.
+ */
+extern void accel_ioctl_inhibit_begin(void);
+
+/*
+ * accel_ioctl_inhibit_end: end critical section started by
+ * accel_ioctl_inhibit_begin()
+ *
+ * This function allows blocked accel_{cpu_}ioctl_begin() to continue.
+ */
+extern void accel_ioctl_inhibit_end(void);
+
+#endif /* ACCEL_BLOCKER_H */