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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Eduardo Habkost" <eduardo@habkost.net>,
	"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
	"Yanan Wang" <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] hw/core/cpu.h: try and document CPU_FOREACH[_SAFE]
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:32:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240620163204.2213916-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> (raw)

There is some confusion about when you should use one over the other.
Lets try and address that by adding some kdoc comments.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
 include/hw/core/cpu.h | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/hw/core/cpu.h b/include/hw/core/cpu.h
index a2c8536943..7122f742c1 100644
--- a/include/hw/core/cpu.h
+++ b/include/hw/core/cpu.h
@@ -587,8 +587,25 @@ extern CPUTailQ cpus_queue;
 
 #define first_cpu        QTAILQ_FIRST_RCU(&cpus_queue)
 #define CPU_NEXT(cpu)    QTAILQ_NEXT_RCU(cpu, node)
+
+/**
+ * CPU_FOREACH - Helper to iterate over all CPUs
+ *
+ * This macro iterates over all CPUs in the system. It must be used
+ * under an RCU read protection, e.g. WITH_RCU_READ_LOCK_GUARD(). If
+ * you don't want the CPU list to change while iterating use
+ * CPU_FOREACH_SAFE under the cpu_list_lock().
+ */
 #define CPU_FOREACH(cpu) QTAILQ_FOREACH_RCU(cpu, &cpus_queue, node)
-#define CPU_FOREACH_SAFE(cpu, next_cpu) \
+
+/**
+ * CPU_FOREACH_SAFE - Helper to iterate over all CPUs, safe against CPU changes
+ *
+ * This macro iterates over all CPUs in the system, and is safe
+ * against CPU list changes. The target data structure must be
+ * protected by cpu_list_lock(), and does not need RCU.
+ */
+#define CPU_FOREACH_SAFE(cpu, next_cpu)                         \
     QTAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE_RCU(cpu, &cpus_queue, node, next_cpu)
 
 extern __thread CPUState *current_cpu;
-- 
2.39.2



             reply	other threads:[~2024-06-20 16:33 UTC|newest]

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2024-06-20 16:32 Alex Bennée [this message]
2024-07-17 21:16 ` [RFC PATCH] hw/core/cpu.h: try and document CPU_FOREACH[_SAFE] Alex Bennée

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