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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-01-12 19:07:53 +0100
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2017-01-16 13:25:17 +0000
commitd7c99a1282ca2de1c344b8aa91be5364e9c6aa8f (patch)
treee7ea12e8f68e634eb89b7a4f98c739442f6745b6 /include/block/aio.h
parent51dee5e465e1b3454a886792ca3e14b851e8e67d (diff)
aio: make ctx->list_lock a QemuLockCnt, subsuming ctx->walking_bh
This will make it possible to walk the list of bottom halves without holding the AioContext lock---and in turn to call bottom half handlers without holding the lock. Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170112180800.21085-4-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/block/aio.h')
-rw-r--r--include/block/aio.h12
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/block/aio.h b/include/block/aio.h
index 013d4002f6..be3adfec43 100644
--- a/include/block/aio.h
+++ b/include/block/aio.h
@@ -90,17 +90,15 @@ struct AioContext {
*/
uint32_t notify_me;
- /* lock to protect between bh's adders and deleter */
- QemuMutex list_lock;
+ /* A lock to protect between bh's adders and deleter, and to ensure
+ * that no callbacks are removed while we're walking and dispatching
+ * them.
+ */
+ QemuLockCnt list_lock;
/* Anchor of the list of Bottom Halves belonging to the context */
struct QEMUBH *first_bh;
- /* A simple lock used to protect the first_bh list, and ensure that
- * no callbacks are removed while we're walking and dispatching callbacks.
- */
- int walking_bh;
-
/* Used by aio_notify.
*
* "notified" is used to avoid expensive event_notifier_test_and_clear