main-loop: introduce qemu_mutex_iothread_locked

This function will be used to avoid recursive locking of the iothread lock
whenever address_space_rw/ld*/st* are called with the BQL held, which is
almost always the case.

Tracking whether the iothread is owned is very cheap (just use a TLS
variable) but requires some care because now the lock must always be
taken with qemu_mutex_lock_iothread().  Previously this wasn't the case.
Outside TCG mode this is not a problem.  In TCG mode, we need to be
careful and avoid the "prod out of compiled code" step if already
in a VCPU thread.  This is easily done with a check on current_cpu,
i.e. qemu_in_vcpu_thread().

Hopefully, multithreaded TCG will get rid of the whole logic to kick
VCPUs whenever an I/O event occurs!

Cc: Frederic Konrad <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>
Message-Id: <1434646046-27150-3-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qemu/main-loop.h b/include/qemu/main-loop.h
index 0f4a0fd4b2..bc18ca30e4 100644
--- a/include/qemu/main-loop.h
+++ b/include/qemu/main-loop.h
@@ -223,6 +223,16 @@ int qemu_add_child_watch(pid_t pid);
 #endif
 
 /**
+ * qemu_mutex_iothread_locked: Return lock status of the main loop mutex.
+ *
+ * The main loop mutex is the coarsest lock in QEMU, and as such it
+ * must always be taken outside other locks.  This function helps
+ * functions take different paths depending on whether the current
+ * thread is running within the main loop mutex.
+ */
+bool qemu_mutex_iothread_locked(void);
+
+/**
  * qemu_mutex_lock_iothread: Lock the main loop mutex.
  *
  * This function locks the main loop mutex.  The mutex is taken by