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-rw-r--r--docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt7
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt b/docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt
index e4d340bbb7..4f9012d154 100644
--- a/docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2014 Red Hat Inc.
+Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Red Hat Inc.
This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later. See
the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() for mutual exclusion. Once the
context is acquired no other thread can access it or run event loop iterations
in this AioContext.
-aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() calls may be nested. This
-means you can call them if you're not sure whether #2 applies.
+Legacy code sometimes nests aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() calls.
+Do not use nesting anymore, it is incompatible with the BDRV_POLL_WHILE() macro
+used in the block layer and can lead to hangs.
There is currently no lock ordering rule if a thread needs to acquire multiple
AioContexts simultaneously. Therefore, it is only safe for code holding the
diff --git a/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt
index f04c63fe82..06ab699066 100644
--- a/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Comment text starting with '=' is a section title:
Double the '=' for a subsection title:
- # == Subection title
+ # == Subsection title
'|' denotes examples: