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, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/stubs/iothread-lock.c b/stubs/iothread-lock.c
index 5d8aca1b37..dda6f6b58d 100644
--- a/stubs/iothread-lock.c
+++ b/stubs/iothread-lock.c
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #include "qemu-common.h"
 #include "qemu/main-loop.h"
 
+bool qemu_mutex_iothread_locked(void)
+{
+    return true;
+}
+
 void qemu_mutex_lock_iothread(void)
 {
 }