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| author | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2018-01-11 22:01:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2018-01-11 22:03:50 +0200 |
| commit | acc95bc85036c443da8bf7159a77edf9f00dcd80 (patch) | |
| tree | 21965c6e60a2e29664b7685e52feacdb6a86e0bd /docs | |
| parent | 880b1ffe6ec2f0ae25cc4175716227ad275e8b8a (diff) | |
| parent | 997eba28a3ed5400a80f754bf3a1c8044b75b9ff (diff) | |
| download | qemu-acc95bc85036c443da8bf7159a77edf9f00dcd80.tar.gz | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into HEAD
Resolve conflicts around apb.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/multiple-iothreads.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt | 2 |
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: |