The Big QEMU Lock (BQL) has many names and they are confusing. The
actual QemuMutex variable is called qemu_global_mutex but it's commonly
referred to as the BQL in discussions and some code comments. The
locking APIs, however, are called qemu_mutex_lock_iothread() and
qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread().
The "iothread" name is historic and comes from when the main thread was
split into into KVM vcpu threads and the "iothread" (now called the main
loop thread). I have contributed to the confusion myself by introducing
a separate --object iothread, a separate concept unrelated to the BQL.
The "iothread" name is no longer appropriate for the BQL. Rename the
locking APIs to:
- void bql_lock(void)
- void bql_unlock(void)
- bool bql_locked(void)
There are more APIs with "iothread" in their names. Subsequent patches
will rename them. There are also comments and documentation that will be
updated in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Acked-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harshpb@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hyman Huang <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Message-id: 20240102153529.486531-2-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Fix:
hw/core/machine.c:1302:22: error: declaration shadows a variable in the global scope [-Werror,-Wshadow]
const CPUArchId *cpus = possible_cpus->cpus;
^
hw/core/numa.c:69:17: error: declaration shadows a variable in the global scope [-Werror,-Wshadow]
uint16List *cpus = NULL;
^
hw/acpi/aml-build.c:2005:20: error: declaration shadows a variable in the global scope [-Werror,-Wshadow]
CPUArchIdList *cpus = ms->possible_cpus;
^
hw/core/machine-smp.c:77:14: error: declaration shadows a variable in the global scope [-Werror,-Wshadow]
unsigned cpus = config->has_cpus ? config->cpus : 0;
^
include/hw/core/cpu.h:589:17: note: previous declaration is here
extern CPUTailQ cpus;
^
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231010115048.11856-2-philmd@linaro.org>
We have exec/cpu code split in 2 files for target agnostic
("common") and specific. Rename 'cpu.c' which is target
specific using the '-target' suffix. Update MAINTAINERS.
Remove the 's from 'cpus-common.c' to match the API cpu_foo()
functions.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Anton Johansson <anjo@rev.ng>
Message-Id: <20230914185718.76241-7-philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Stefan Hajnoczi