qemu-kvm/kvm-aio-warn-about-iohandler_ctx-special-casing.patch

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From 6c8da957fd534b3546354a8b8252c01cf9ee3511 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 15:06:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 14/14] aio: warn about iohandler_ctx special casing
RH-Author: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
RH-MergeRequest: 253: Revert "monitor: use aio_co_reschedule_self()"
RH-Jira: RHEL-43409 RHEL-43410
RH-Acked-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
RH-Commit: [2/2] 895231553731f09f51275c1abbf50c3440fe977f (kmwolf/centos-qemu-kvm)
The main loop has two AioContexts: qemu_aio_context and iohandler_ctx.
The main loop runs them both, but nested aio_poll() calls on
qemu_aio_context exclude iohandler_ctx.
Which one should qemu_get_current_aio_context() return when called from
the main loop? Document that it's always qemu_aio_context.
This has subtle effects on functions that use
qemu_get_current_aio_context(). For example, aio_co_reschedule_self()
does not work when moving from iohandler_ctx to qemu_aio_context because
qemu_get_current_aio_context() does not differentiate these two
AioContexts.
Document this in order to reduce the chance of future bugs.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240506190622.56095-3-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit e669e800fc9ef8806af5c5578249ab758a4f8a5a)
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
include/block/aio.h | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/block/aio.h b/include/block/aio.h
index 8378553eb9..4ee81936ed 100644
--- a/include/block/aio.h
+++ b/include/block/aio.h
@@ -629,6 +629,9 @@ void aio_co_schedule(AioContext *ctx, Coroutine *co);
*
* Move the currently running coroutine to new_ctx. If the coroutine is already
* running in new_ctx, do nothing.
+ *
+ * Note that this function cannot reschedule from iohandler_ctx to
+ * qemu_aio_context.
*/
void coroutine_fn aio_co_reschedule_self(AioContext *new_ctx);
@@ -661,6 +664,9 @@ void aio_co_enter(AioContext *ctx, Coroutine *co);
* If called from an IOThread this will be the IOThread's AioContext. If
* called from the main thread or with the "big QEMU lock" taken it
* will be the main loop AioContext.
+ *
+ * Note that the return value is never the main loop's iohandler_ctx and the
+ * return value is the main loop AioContext instead.
*/
AioContext *qemu_get_current_aio_context(void);
--
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