job: move and update comments from blockjob.c

This comment applies more on job, it was left in blockjob as in the past
the whole job logic was implemented there.

Note: at this stage, job_{lock/unlock} and job lock guard macros
are *nop*.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220926093214.506243-7-eesposit@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/blockjob.c b/blockjob.c
index 4868453d74..7da59a1f1c 100644
--- a/blockjob.c
+++ b/blockjob.c
@@ -36,21 +36,6 @@
 #include "qemu/main-loop.h"
 #include "qemu/timer.h"
 
-/*
- * The block job API is composed of two categories of functions.
- *
- * The first includes functions used by the monitor.  The monitor is
- * peculiar in that it accesses the block job list with block_job_get, and
- * therefore needs consistency across block_job_get and the actual operation
- * (e.g. block_job_set_speed).  The consistency is achieved with
- * aio_context_acquire/release.  These functions are declared in blockjob.h.
- *
- * The second includes functions used by the block job drivers and sometimes
- * by the core block layer.  These do not care about locking, because the
- * whole coroutine runs under the AioContext lock, and are declared in
- * blockjob_int.h.
- */
-
 static bool is_block_job(Job *job)
 {
     return job_type(job) == JOB_TYPE_BACKUP ||
@@ -433,11 +418,6 @@ static void block_job_event_ready(Notifier *n, void *opaque)
 }
 
 
-/*
- * API for block job drivers and the block layer.  These functions are
- * declared in blockjob_int.h.
- */
-
 void *block_job_create(const char *job_id, const BlockJobDriver *driver,
                        JobTxn *txn, BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t perm,
                        uint64_t shared_perm, int64_t speed, int flags,
diff --git a/job.c b/job.c
index 87564979cb..926e385ac2 100644
--- a/job.c
+++ b/job.c
@@ -33,6 +33,22 @@
 #include "qapi/qapi-events-job.h"
 
 /*
+ * The job API is composed of two categories of functions.
+ *
+ * The first includes functions used by the monitor.  The monitor is
+ * peculiar in that it accesses the job list with job_get, and
+ * therefore needs consistency across job_get and the actual operation
+ * (e.g. job_user_cancel). To achieve this consistency, the caller
+ * calls job_lock/job_unlock itself around the whole operation.
+ *
+ *
+ * The second includes functions used by the job drivers and sometimes
+ * by the core block layer. These delegate the locking to the callee instead.
+ *
+ * TODO Actually make this true
+ */
+
+/*
  * job_mutex protects the jobs list, but also makes the
  * struct job fields thread-safe.
  */