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QEMU question: is eventfd not thread safe?

Message ID 4FF062BC.4090200@ozlabs.ru
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Alexey Kardashevskiy July 1, 2012, 2:46 p.m. UTC
On 01/07/12 23:40, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 01/07/12 23:32, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 01/07/2012 13:06, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
>>> Doing MSI init stuff, QEMU-VFIO calls the same event_notifier_init()
>>> (returns recycled fd=XX what is correct but confuses) and
>>> qemu_set_fd_handler() which adds a handler but select() does not pick
>>> it up.
>>
>> This sounds like a missing qemu_notify_event().  There was a recent
>> thread on a similar problem with block/iscsi.c.
> 
> 
> Oh, right, that helps too when place in qemu_set_fd_handler2().


Like this. Right place?


---
 iohandler.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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Paolo Bonzini July 1, 2012, 3:03 p.m. UTC | #1
Il 01/07/2012 16:46, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
> On 01/07/12 23:40, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> On 01/07/12 23:32, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> Il 01/07/2012 13:06, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
>>>> Doing MSI init stuff, QEMU-VFIO calls the same event_notifier_init()
>>>> (returns recycled fd=XX what is correct but confuses) and
>>>> qemu_set_fd_handler() which adds a handler but select() does not pick
>>>> it up.
>>>
>>> This sounds like a missing qemu_notify_event().  There was a recent
>>> thread on a similar problem with block/iscsi.c.
>>
>>
>> Oh, right, that helps too when place in qemu_set_fd_handler2().
> 
> 
> Like this. Right place?

Yes, please resend as a toplevel message (i.e. not deep in a thread)
with my Reviewed-by.

Paolo

> 
> 
> ---
>  iohandler.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/iohandler.c b/iohandler.c
> index 3c74de6..dea4355 100644
> --- a/iohandler.c
> +++ b/iohandler.c
> @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ int qemu_set_fd_handler2(int fd,
>          ioh->fd_write = fd_write;
>          ioh->opaque = opaque;
>          ioh->deleted = 0;
> +        qemu_notify_event();
>      }
>      return 0;
>  }
>
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diff --git a/iohandler.c b/iohandler.c
index 3c74de6..dea4355 100644
--- a/iohandler.c
+++ b/iohandler.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@  int qemu_set_fd_handler2(int fd,
         ioh->fd_write = fd_write;
         ioh->opaque = opaque;
         ioh->deleted = 0;
+        qemu_notify_event();
     }
     return 0;
 }