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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11] block: Keep strong reference when draining all BDS
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 23:31:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171110153103.GB9235@lemon.Home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0e58edd-39cf-2bb5-61bd-442825b82ff9@redhat.com>

On Fri, 11/10 16:23, Max Reitz wrote:
> But bdrv_unref() is safe only in the main loop.  Without having checked,
> I'm not sure whether all callers of bdrv_next() are running in the main
> loop.

They must be. The reasoning is simple:

1) one needs to acquire the ctx of all the BDSes for safe access;
2) only main loop can acquire any BDS' ctx;

So there is no way bdrv_next can work in an IOThread.

Fam

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-10 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-09 20:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.11] block: Keep strong reference when draining all BDS Max Reitz
2017-11-09 21:02 ` Eric Blake
2017-11-10  2:45 ` Fam Zheng
2017-11-10 13:17   ` Kevin Wolf
2017-11-10 13:32     ` Fam Zheng
2017-11-10 15:23       ` Max Reitz
2017-11-10 15:31         ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2017-11-10 16:05         ` Kevin Wolf
2017-11-10 16:13           ` Max Reitz
2017-11-10 16:22             ` Kevin Wolf
2017-11-10 16:43               ` Max Reitz
2017-11-10  9:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-11-10 15:26   ` Max Reitz

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