qemu-thread: add QemuEvent

This emulates Win32 manual-reset events using futexes or conditional
variables.  Typical ways to use them are with multi-producer,
single-consumer data structures, to test for a complex condition whose
elements come from different threads:

    for (;;) {
        qemu_event_reset(ev);
        ... test complex condition ...
        if (condition is true) {
            break;
        }
        qemu_event_wait(ev);
    }

Or more efficiently (but with some duplication):

    ... evaluate condition ...
    while (!condition) {
        qemu_event_reset(ev);
        ... evaluate condition ...
        if (!condition) {
            qemu_event_wait(ev);
            ... evaluate condition ...
        }
    }

QemuEvent provides a very fast userspace path in the common case when
no other thread is waiting, or the event is not changing state.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qemu/thread-posix.h b/include/qemu/thread-posix.h
index 361566abc4..eb5c7a1da1 100644
--- a/include/qemu/thread-posix.h
+++ b/include/qemu/thread-posix.h
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ struct QemuSemaphore {
 #endif
 };
 
+struct QemuEvent {
+#ifndef __linux__
+    pthread_mutex_t lock;
+    pthread_cond_t cond;
+#endif
+    unsigned value;
+};
+
 struct QemuThread {
     pthread_t thread;
 };
diff --git a/include/qemu/thread-win32.h b/include/qemu/thread-win32.h
index 13adb958f0..3d58081bed 100644
--- a/include/qemu/thread-win32.h
+++ b/include/qemu/thread-win32.h
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ struct QemuSemaphore {
     HANDLE sema;
 };
 
+struct QemuEvent {
+    HANDLE event;
+};
+
 typedef struct QemuThreadData QemuThreadData;
 struct QemuThread {
     QemuThreadData *data;
diff --git a/include/qemu/thread.h b/include/qemu/thread.h
index c02404b9fb..3e32c6531c 100644
--- a/include/qemu/thread.h
+++ b/include/qemu/thread.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 typedef struct QemuMutex QemuMutex;
 typedef struct QemuCond QemuCond;
 typedef struct QemuSemaphore QemuSemaphore;
+typedef struct QemuEvent QemuEvent;
 typedef struct QemuThread QemuThread;
 
 #ifdef _WIN32
@@ -45,6 +46,12 @@ void qemu_sem_wait(QemuSemaphore *sem);
 int qemu_sem_timedwait(QemuSemaphore *sem, int ms);
 void qemu_sem_destroy(QemuSemaphore *sem);
 
+void qemu_event_init(QemuEvent *ev, bool init);
+void qemu_event_set(QemuEvent *ev);
+void qemu_event_reset(QemuEvent *ev);
+void qemu_event_wait(QemuEvent *ev);
+void qemu_event_destroy(QemuEvent *ev);
+
 void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread,
                         void *(*start_routine)(void *),
                         void *arg, int mode);