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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2009-06-15 13:52:27 +0200
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@brick.lst.de>2009-06-15 13:52:27 +0200
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fix qemu_aio_flush
qemu_aio_wait by invoking the bh or one of the aio completion callbacks, could end up submitting new pending aio, breaking the invariant that qemu_aio_flush returns only when no pending aio is outstanding (possibly a problem for migration as such). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-aio.h b/qemu-aio.h
index 7967829..f262344 100644
--- a/qemu-aio.h
+++ b/qemu-aio.h
@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ typedef int (AioFlushHandler)(void *opaque);
* outstanding AIO operations have been completed or cancelled. */
void qemu_aio_flush(void);
-/* Wait for a single AIO completion to occur. This function will until a
- * single AIO opeartion has completed. It is intended to be used as a looping
- * primative when simulating synchronous IO based on asynchronous IO. */
+/* Wait for a single AIO completion to occur. This function will wait
+ * until a single AIO event has completed and it will ensure something
+ * has moved before returning. This can issue new pending aio as
+ * result of executing I/O completion or bh callbacks. */
void qemu_aio_wait(void);
/* Register a file descriptor and associated callbacks. Behaves very similarly