Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] s390x/pv: Add support for asynchronous teardown for reboot

[Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 12:27:32 +0100
Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 22/12/2022 16.04, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> > This patch adds support for the asynchronous teardown for reboot for
> > protected VMs.  
> [...]
> > +bool s390_pv_vm_try_disable_async(void)
> > +{
> > +    char tname[VCPU_THREAD_NAME_SIZE];
> > +    QemuThread *t;
> > +
> > +    if (!kvm_check_extension(kvm_state, KVM_CAP_S390_PROTECTED_ASYNC_DISABLE)) {
> > +        return false;
> > +    }
> > +    if (s390_pv_cmd(KVM_PV_ASYNC_CLEANUP_PREPARE, NULL) != 0) {
> > +        return false;
> > +    }
> > +
> > +    t = g_malloc0(sizeof(QemuThread));
> > +    snprintf(tname, VCPU_THREAD_NAME_SIZE, "async_unpr/KVM");
> > +
> > +    qemu_thread_create(t, tname, s390_pv_do_unprot_async_fn, NULL,
> > +                       QEMU_THREAD_DETACHED);  
> 
> I think you could get along without the tname[] array here by simply passing 
> the string directly to qemu_thread_create() ?

ahh, you're right

maybe I should also pick a better name? in retrospect it looks quite
cryptic

> 
> Apart from that, patch looks fine to me.
> 
>   Thomas
>