Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V6 05/13] monitor: avoid use of global *cur_mon in readline_completion()

[Wenchao Xia]

于 2013-7-18 3:34, Luiz Capitulino 写道:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:13:41 +0800
> Wenchao Xia <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Now all completion functions do not use *cur_mon any more, instead
> > they use rs->mon. In short, structure ReadLineState decide where
> > the complete action would be taken now.
> >
> > Tested with the case that qemu have two telnet monitors, auto
> > completion function works normal.
> >
> > Take a better look at monitor_init(), it calls readline_init() which
> > initialize mon->rs, result is mon->rs->mon == mon. Then it calls
> > qemu_chr_add_handlers(), which make monitor_read() function
> > take *mon as its opaque. Later, when user input, monitor_read()
> > is called, where cur_mon is set to *mon by "cur_mon = opaque".
> > If qemu's monitors run in one thread, then later in
> > readline_handle_byte() and readline_comletion(), cur_mon is actually
> > equal to rs->mon, in another word it points to the actuall monitor
> > instance, so it is safe to replace *cur_mon in those functions.
>
> I find this paragraph a bit confusing and not exactly related to
> this patch. I know I asked you to explain why dropping cur_mon usage
> shouldn't brake things, but looks like you don't have a good place
> to have that info.
>
> >
  How about refine the message as:
"Now usage of cur_mon is dropped in readline_completion(), it is safe
because:
.....
"
?

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Best Regards

Wenchao Xia