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2024-01-08Rename "QEMU global mutex" to "BQL" in comments and docsStefan Hajnoczi
The term "QEMU global mutex" is identical to the more widely used Big QEMU Lock ("BQL"). Update the code comments and documentation to use "BQL" instead of "QEMU global mutex". Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org> Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> Reviewed-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harshpb@linux.ibm.com> Message-id: 20240102153529.486531-6-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2023-12-21docs: remove AioContext lock from IOThread docsStefan Hajnoczi
Encourage the use of locking primitives and stop mentioning the AioContext lock since it is being removed. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20231205182011.1976568-12-stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2023-04-28async: Add an optional reentrancy guard to the BH APIAlexander Bulekov
Devices can pass their MemoryReentrancyGuard (from their DeviceState), when creating new BHes. Then, the async API will toggle the guard before/after calling the BH call-back. This prevents bh->mmio reentrancy issues. Signed-off-by: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu> Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com> Message-Id: <20230427211013.2994127-3-alxndr@bu.edu> [thuth: Fix "line over 90 characters" checkpatch.pl error] Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2022-10-27block: remove bdrv_try_set_aio_context and replace it with ↵Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
bdrv_try_change_aio_context No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20221025084952.2139888-11-eesposit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2019-06-04block: Remove bdrv_set_aio_context()Kevin Wolf
All callers of bdrv_set_aio_context() are eliminated now, they have moved to bdrv_try_set_aio_context() and related safe functions. Remove bdrv_set_aio_context(). With this, we can now know that the .set_aio_ctx callback must be present in bdrv_set_aio_context_ignore() because bdrv_can_set_aio_context() would have returned false previously, so instead of checking the condition, we can assert it. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-12-19docs: mark nested AioContext locking as a legacy APIStefan Hajnoczi
See the patch for why nested AioContext locking is no longer allowed. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-id: 20171207201320.19284-3-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-06-07docs: create config/, devel/ and spin/ subdirectoriesPaolo Bonzini
Developer documentation should be its own manual. As a start, move all developer-oriented files to a separate directory. Also move non-text files to their own directories: docs/config/ for QEMU -readconfig input, and docs/spin/ for formal models to be used with the SPIN model checker. Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>