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+/*
+ * QEMU Thread Local Storage for coroutines
+ *
+ * Copyright Red Hat
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ * It is forbidden to access Thread Local Storage in coroutines because
+ * compiler optimizations may cause values to be cached across coroutine
+ * re-entry. Coroutines can run in more than one thread through the course of
+ * their life, leading bugs when stale TLS values from the wrong thread are
+ * used as a result of compiler optimization.
+ *
+ * An example is:
+ *
+ * ..code-block:: c
+ * :caption: A coroutine that may see the wrong TLS value
+ *
+ * static __thread AioContext *current_aio_context;
+ * ...
+ * static void coroutine_fn foo(void)
+ * {
+ * aio_notify(current_aio_context);
+ * qemu_coroutine_yield();
+ * aio_notify(current_aio_context); // <-- may be stale after yielding!
+ * }
+ *
+ * This header provides macros for safely defining variables in Thread Local
+ * Storage:
+ *
+ * ..code-block:: c
+ * :caption: A coroutine that safely uses TLS
+ *
+ * QEMU_DEFINE_STATIC_CO_TLS(AioContext *, current_aio_context)
+ * ...
+ * static void coroutine_fn foo(void)
+ * {
+ * aio_notify(get_current_aio_context());
+ * qemu_coroutine_yield();
+ * aio_notify(get_current_aio_context()); // <-- safe
+ * }
+ */
+
+#ifndef QEMU_COROUTINE_TLS_H
+#define QEMU_COROUTINE_TLS_H
+
+/*
+ * To stop the compiler from caching TLS values we define accessor functions
+ * with __attribute__((noinline)) plus asm volatile("") to prevent
+ * optimizations that override noinline.
+ *
+ * The compiler can still analyze noinline code and make optimizations based on
+ * that knowledge, so an inline asm output operand is used to prevent
+ * optimizations that make assumptions about the address of the TLS variable.
+ *
+ * This is fragile and ultimately needs to be solved by a mechanism that is
+ * guaranteed to work by the compiler (e.g. stackless coroutines), but for now
+ * we use this approach to prevent issues.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * QEMU_DECLARE_CO_TLS:
+ * @type: the variable's C type
+ * @var: the variable name
+ *
+ * Declare an extern variable in Thread Local Storage from a header file:
+ *
+ * .. code-block:: c
+ * :caption: Declaring an extern variable in Thread Local Storage
+ *
+ * QEMU_DECLARE_CO_TLS(int, my_count)
+ * ...
+ * int c = get_my_count();
+ * set_my_count(c + 1);
+ * *get_ptr_my_count() = 0;
+ *
+ * This is a coroutine-safe replacement for the __thread keyword and is
+ * equivalent to the following code:
+ *
+ * .. code-block:: c
+ * :caption: Declaring a TLS variable using __thread
+ *
+ * extern __thread int my_count;
+ * ...
+ * int c = my_count;
+ * my_count = c + 1;
+ * *(&my_count) = 0;
+ */
+#define QEMU_DECLARE_CO_TLS(type, var) \
+ __attribute__((noinline)) type get_##var(void); \
+ __attribute__((noinline)) void set_##var(type v); \
+ __attribute__((noinline)) type *get_ptr_##var(void);
+
+/**
+ * QEMU_DEFINE_CO_TLS:
+ * @type: the variable's C type
+ * @var: the variable name
+ *
+ * Define a variable in Thread Local Storage that was previously declared from
+ * a header file with QEMU_DECLARE_CO_TLS():
+ *
+ * .. code-block:: c
+ * :caption: Defining a variable in Thread Local Storage
+ *
+ * QEMU_DEFINE_CO_TLS(int, my_count)
+ *
+ * This is a coroutine-safe replacement for the __thread keyword and is
+ * equivalent to the following code:
+ *
+ * .. code-block:: c
+ * :caption: Defining a TLS variable using __thread
+ *
+ * __thread int my_count;
+ */
+#define QEMU_DEFINE_CO_TLS(type, var) \
+ static __thread type co_tls_##var; \
+ type get_##var(void) { asm volatile(""); return co_tls_##var; } \
+ void set_##var(type v) { asm volatile(""); co_tls_##var = v; } \
+ type *get_ptr_##var(void) \
+ { type *ptr = &co_tls_##var; asm volatile("" : "+rm" (ptr)); return ptr; }
+
+/**
+ * QEMU_DEFINE_STATIC_CO_TLS:
+ * @type: the variable's C type
+ * @var: the variable name
+ *
+ * Define a static variable in Thread Local Storage:
+ *
+ * .. code-block:: c
+ * :caption: Defining a static variable in Thread Local Storage
+ *
+ * QEMU_DEFINE_STATIC_CO_TLS(int, my_count)
+ * ...
+ * int c = get_my_count();
+ * set_my_count(c + 1);
+ * *get_ptr_my_count() = 0;
+ *
+ * This is a coroutine-safe replacement for the __thread keyword and is
+ * equivalent to the following code:
+ *
+ * .. code-block:: c
+ * :caption: Defining a static TLS variable using __thread
+ *
+ * static __thread int my_count;
+ * ...
+ * int c = my_count;
+ * my_count = c + 1;
+ * *(&my_count) = 0;
+ */
+#define QEMU_DEFINE_STATIC_CO_TLS(type, var) \
+ static __thread type co_tls_##var; \
+ static __attribute__((noinline, unused)) \
+ type get_##var(void) \
+ { asm volatile(""); return co_tls_##var; } \
+ static __attribute__((noinline, unused)) \
+ void set_##var(type v) \
+ { asm volatile(""); co_tls_##var = v; } \
+ static __attribute__((noinline, unused)) \
+ type *get_ptr_##var(void) \
+ { type *ptr = &co_tls_##var; asm volatile("" : "+rm" (ptr)); return ptr; }
+
+#endif /* QEMU_COROUTINE_TLS_H */