util/async: add a human-readable name to BHs for debugging

It can be difficult to debug issues with BHs in production environments.
Although BHs can usually be identified by looking up their ->cb()
function pointer, this requires debug information for the program. It is
also not possible to print human-readable diagnostics about BHs because
they have no identifier.

This patch adds a name to each BH. The name is not unique per instance
but differentiates between cb() functions, which is usually enough. It's
done by changing aio_bh_new() and friends to macros that stringify cb.

The next patch will use the name field when reporting leaked BHs.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210414200247.917496-2-stefanha@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/block/aio.h b/include/block/aio.h
index 10fcae1515..807edce9b5 100644
--- a/include/block/aio.h
+++ b/include/block/aio.h
@@ -292,19 +292,44 @@ void aio_context_acquire(AioContext *ctx);
 void aio_context_release(AioContext *ctx);
 
 /**
+ * aio_bh_schedule_oneshot_full: Allocate a new bottom half structure that will
+ * run only once and as soon as possible.
+ *
+ * @name: A human-readable identifier for debugging purposes.
+ */
+void aio_bh_schedule_oneshot_full(AioContext *ctx, QEMUBHFunc *cb, void *opaque,
+                                  const char *name);
+
+/**
  * aio_bh_schedule_oneshot: Allocate a new bottom half structure that will run
  * only once and as soon as possible.
+ *
+ * A convenience wrapper for aio_bh_schedule_oneshot_full() that uses cb as the
+ * name string.
  */
-void aio_bh_schedule_oneshot(AioContext *ctx, QEMUBHFunc *cb, void *opaque);
+#define aio_bh_schedule_oneshot(ctx, cb, opaque) \
+    aio_bh_schedule_oneshot_full((ctx), (cb), (opaque), (stringify(cb)))
 
 /**
- * aio_bh_new: Allocate a new bottom half structure.
+ * aio_bh_new_full: Allocate a new bottom half structure.
  *
  * Bottom halves are lightweight callbacks whose invocation is guaranteed
  * to be wait-free, thread-safe and signal-safe.  The #QEMUBH structure
  * is opaque and must be allocated prior to its use.
+ *
+ * @name: A human-readable identifier for debugging purposes.
+ */
+QEMUBH *aio_bh_new_full(AioContext *ctx, QEMUBHFunc *cb, void *opaque,
+                        const char *name);
+
+/**
+ * aio_bh_new: Allocate a new bottom half structure
+ *
+ * A convenience wrapper for aio_bh_new_full() that uses the cb as the name
+ * string.
  */
-QEMUBH *aio_bh_new(AioContext *ctx, QEMUBHFunc *cb, void *opaque);
+#define aio_bh_new(ctx, cb, opaque) \
+    aio_bh_new_full((ctx), (cb), (opaque), (stringify(cb)))
 
 /**
  * aio_notify: Force processing of pending events.