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authorMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2018-07-03 10:53:57 +0200
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2018-07-03 23:18:56 +0200
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monitor: Improve some comments
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180703085358.13941-32-armbru@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'monitor.c')
-rw-r--r--monitor.c100
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index f8b88ba..5117953 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -169,15 +169,16 @@ typedef struct {
JSONMessageParser parser;
/*
* When a client connects, we're in capabilities negotiation mode.
- * When command qmp_capabilities succeeds, we go into command
- * mode.
+ * @commands is &qmp_cap_negotiation_commands then. When command
+ * qmp_capabilities succeeds, we go into command mode, and
+ * @command becomes &qmp_commands.
*/
QmpCommandList *commands;
bool capab_offered[QMP_CAPABILITY__MAX]; /* capabilities offered */
bool capab[QMP_CAPABILITY__MAX]; /* offered and accepted */
/*
- * Protects qmp request/response queue. Please take monitor_lock
- * first when used together.
+ * Protects qmp request/response queue.
+ * Take monitor_lock first when you need both.
*/
QemuMutex qmp_queue_lock;
/* Input queue that holds all the parsed QMP requests */
@@ -232,7 +233,7 @@ struct Monitor {
QemuMutex mon_lock;
/*
- * Fields that are protected by the per-monitor lock.
+ * Members that are protected by the per-monitor lock
*/
QLIST_HEAD(, mon_fd_t) fds;
QString *outbuf;
@@ -241,6 +242,7 @@ struct Monitor {
int mux_out;
};
+/* Shared monitor I/O thread */
IOThread *mon_iothread;
/* Bottom half to dispatch the requests received from I/O thread */
@@ -302,9 +304,9 @@ static inline bool monitor_is_qmp(const Monitor *mon)
}
/**
- * Whether @mon is using readline? Note: not all HMP monitors use
- * readline, e.g., gdbserver has a non-interactive HMP monitor, so
- * readline is not used there.
+ * Is @mon is using readline?
+ * Note: not all HMP monitors use readline, e.g., gdbserver has a
+ * non-interactive HMP monitor, so readline is not used there.
*/
static inline bool monitor_uses_readline(const Monitor *mon)
{
@@ -318,14 +320,12 @@ static inline bool monitor_is_hmp_non_interactive(const Monitor *mon)
/*
* Return the clock to use for recording an event's time.
+ * It's QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME, except for qtests it's
+ * QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL, to support testing rate limits.
* Beware: result is invalid before configure_accelerator().
*/
static inline QEMUClockType monitor_get_event_clock(void)
{
- /*
- * This allows us to perform tests on the monitor queues to verify
- * that the rate limits are enforced.
- */
return qtest_enabled() ? QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL : QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME;
}
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static void qmp_request_free(QMPRequest *req)
g_free(req);
}
-/* Must with the mon->qmp.qmp_queue_lock held */
+/* Caller must hold mon->qmp.qmp_queue_lock */
static void monitor_qmp_cleanup_req_queue_locked(Monitor *mon)
{
while (!g_queue_is_empty(mon->qmp.qmp_requests)) {
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ static void monitor_qmp_cleanup_req_queue_locked(Monitor *mon)
}
}
-/* Must with the mon->qmp.qmp_queue_lock held */
+/* Caller must hold the mon->qmp.qmp_queue_lock */
static void monitor_qmp_cleanup_resp_queue_locked(Monitor *mon)
{
while (!g_queue_is_empty(mon->qmp.qmp_responses)) {
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static gboolean monitor_unblocked(GIOChannel *chan, GIOCondition cond,
return FALSE;
}
-/* Called with mon->mon_lock held. */
+/* Caller must hold mon->mon_lock */
static void monitor_flush_locked(Monitor *mon)
{
int rc;
@@ -523,10 +523,8 @@ static void qmp_queue_response(Monitor *mon, QDict *rsp)
{
if (mon->use_io_thread) {
/*
- * If using I/O thread, we need to queue the item so that I/O
- * thread will do the rest for us. Take refcount so that
- * caller won't free the data (which will be finally freed in
- * responder thread).
+ * Push a reference to the response queue. The I/O thread
+ * drains that queue and emits.
*/
qemu_mutex_lock(&mon->qmp.qmp_queue_lock);
g_queue_push_tail(mon->qmp.qmp_responses, qobject_ref(rsp));
@@ -534,8 +532,8 @@ static void qmp_queue_response(Monitor *mon, QDict *rsp)
qemu_bh_schedule(qmp_respond_bh);
} else {
/*
- * If not using monitor I/O thread, then we are in main thread.
- * Do the emission right away.
+ * Not using monitor I/O thread, i.e. we are in the main thread.
+ * Emit right away.
*/
qmp_send_response(mon, rsp);
}
@@ -611,8 +609,9 @@ static MonitorQAPIEventConf monitor_qapi_event_conf[QAPI_EVENT__MAX] = {
};
/*
- * Emits the event to every monitor instance, @event is only used for trace
- * Called with monitor_lock held.
+ * Broadcast an event to all monitors.
+ * @qdict is the event object. Its member "event" must match @event.
+ * Caller must hold monitor_lock.
*/
static void monitor_qapi_event_emit(QAPIEvent event, QDict *qdict)
{
@@ -981,8 +980,7 @@ static int parse_cmdline(const char *cmdline,
}
/*
- * Returns true if the command can be executed in preconfig mode
- * i.e. it has the 'p' flag.
+ * Can command @cmd be executed in preconfig state?
*/
static bool cmd_can_preconfig(const mon_cmd_t *cmd)
{
@@ -2221,7 +2219,7 @@ void qmp_getfd(const char *fdname, Error **errp)
tmp_fd = monfd->fd;
monfd->fd = fd;
qemu_mutex_unlock(&cur_mon->mon_lock);
- /* Make sure close() is out of critical section */
+ /* Make sure close() is outside critical section */
close(tmp_fd);
return;
}
@@ -2250,7 +2248,7 @@ void qmp_closefd(const char *fdname, Error **errp)
g_free(monfd->name);
g_free(monfd);
qemu_mutex_unlock(&cur_mon->mon_lock);
- /* Make sure close() is out of critical section */
+ /* Make sure close() is outside critical section */
close(tmp_fd);
return;
}
@@ -4139,7 +4137,8 @@ static void monitor_qmp_dispatch(Monitor *mon, QObject *req, QObject *id)
}
/*
- * Pop one QMP request from monitor queues, return NULL if not found.
+ * Pop a QMP request from a monitor request queue.
+ * Return the request, or NULL all request queues are empty.
* We are using round-robin fashion to pop the request, to avoid
* processing commands only on a very busy monitor. To achieve that,
* when we process one request on a specific monitor, we put that
@@ -4234,7 +4233,7 @@ static void handle_qmp_command(JSONMessageParser *parser, GQueue *tokens)
}
if (qdict && qmp_is_oob(qdict)) {
- /* Out-of-band (OOB) requests are executed directly in parser. */
+ /* OOB commands are executed immediately */
trace_monitor_qmp_cmd_out_of_band(qobject_get_try_str(id)
?: "");
monitor_qmp_dispatch(mon, req, id);
@@ -4356,8 +4355,8 @@ void monitor_resume(Monitor *mon)
if (atomic_dec_fetch(&mon->suspend_cnt) == 0) {
if (monitor_is_qmp(mon)) {
/*
- * For QMP monitors that are running in I/O thread, let's
- * kick the thread in case it's sleeping.
+ * For QMP monitors that are running in the I/O thread,
+ * let's kick the thread in case it's sleeping.
*/
if (mon->use_io_thread) {
aio_notify(iothread_get_aio_context(mon_iothread));
@@ -4505,18 +4504,18 @@ static void monitor_iothread_init(void)
mon_iothread = iothread_create("mon_iothread", &error_abort);
/*
- * This MUST be on main loop thread since we have commands that
- * have assumption to be run on main loop thread. It would be
- * nice that one day we can remove this assumption in the future.
+ * The dispatcher BH must run in the main loop thread, since we
+ * have commands assuming that context. It would be nice to get
+ * rid of those assumptions.
*/
qmp_dispatcher_bh = aio_bh_new(iohandler_get_aio_context(),
monitor_qmp_bh_dispatcher,
NULL);
/*
- * Unlike the dispatcher BH, this must be run on the monitor I/O
- * thread, so that monitors that are using I/O thread will make
- * sure read/write operations are all done on the I/O thread.
+ * The responder BH must be run in the monitor I/O thread, so that
+ * monitors that are using the I/O thread have their output
+ * written by the I/O thread.
*/
qmp_respond_bh = aio_bh_new(monitor_get_aio_context(),
monitor_qmp_bh_responder,
@@ -4586,15 +4585,11 @@ static void monitor_qmp_setup_handlers_bh(void *opaque)
GMainContext *context;
if (mon->use_io_thread) {
- /*
- * When @use_io_thread is set, we use the global shared dedicated
- * I/O thread for this monitor to handle input/output.
- */
+ /* Use @mon_iothread context */
context = monitor_get_io_context();
- /* We should have inited globals before reaching here. */
assert(context);
} else {
- /* The default main loop, which is the main thread */
+ /* Use default main loop context */
context = NULL;
}
@@ -4644,15 +4639,12 @@ void monitor_init(Chardev *chr, int flags)
remove_fd_in_watch(chr);
/*
* We can't call qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers() directly here
- * since during the procedure the chardev will be active
- * and running in monitor I/O thread, while we'll still do
- * something before returning from it, which is a possible
- * race too. To avoid that, we just create a BH to setup
- * the handlers.
+ * since chardev might be running in the monitor I/O
+ * thread. Schedule a bottom half.
*/
aio_bh_schedule_oneshot(monitor_get_aio_context(),
monitor_qmp_setup_handlers_bh, mon);
- /* We'll add this to mon_list in the BH when setup done */
+ /* The bottom half will add @mon to @mon_list */
return;
} else {
qemu_chr_fe_set_handlers(&mon->chr, monitor_can_read,
@@ -4673,21 +4665,19 @@ void monitor_cleanup(void)
/*
* We need to explicitly stop the I/O thread (but not destroy it),
- * cleanup the monitor resources, then destroy the I/O thread since
+ * clean up the monitor resources, then destroy the I/O thread since
* we need to unregister from chardev below in
* monitor_data_destroy(), and chardev is not thread-safe yet
*/
iothread_stop(mon_iothread);
/*
- * After we have I/O thread to send responses, it's possible that
- * when we stop the I/O thread there are still replies queued in the
- * responder queue. Flush all of them. Note that even after this
- * flush it's still possible that out buffer is not flushed.
- * It'll be done in below monitor_flush() as the last resort.
+ * Flush all response queues. Note that even after this flush,
+ * data may remain in output buffers.
*/
monitor_qmp_bh_responder(NULL);
+ /* Flush output buffers and destroy monitors */
qemu_mutex_lock(&monitor_lock);
QTAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE(mon, &mon_list, entry, next) {
QTAILQ_REMOVE(&mon_list, mon, entry);