[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] monitor: let cur_mon be per-thread

[Peter Xu]

After the Out-Of-Band work, the monitor iothread may be accessing the
cur_mon as well (via monitor_qmp_dispatch_one()).  Let's convert the
cur_mon variable to be a per-thread variable to make sure there won't be
a race between threads when accessing the variable.

Note that thread variables are not initialized to a valid value when new
thread is created.  However for our case we don't need to set it up,
since the cur_mon variable is only used in such a pattern:

  old_mon = cur_mon;
  cur_mon = xxx;
  (do something, read cur_mon if necessary in the stack)
  cur_mon = old_mon;

It plays a role as stack variable, so no need to be initialized at all.
We only need to make sure the variable won't be changed unexpectedly by
other threads.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
[peterx: touch up commit message a bit]
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
---
v4:
- touch up the commit message since now we have OOB command already
v3:
- fix code style warning from patchew
v2:
- drop qemu-thread changes
---
 include/monitor/monitor.h | 2 +-
 monitor.c                 | 2 +-
 stubs/monitor.c           | 2 +-
 tests/test-util-sockets.c | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/monitor/monitor.h b/include/monitor/monitor.h
index d6ab70cae2..2ef5e04b37 100644
--- a/include/monitor/monitor.h
+++ b/include/monitor/monitor.h
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #include "qapi/qapi-types-misc.h"
 #include "qemu/readline.h"
 
-extern Monitor *cur_mon;
+extern __thread Monitor *cur_mon;
 
 /* flags for monitor_init */
 /* 0x01 unused */
diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index 885e000f9b..94365a8ae6 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static mon_cmd_t info_cmds[];
 
 QmpCommandList qmp_commands, qmp_cap_negotiation_commands;
 
-Monitor *cur_mon;
+__thread Monitor *cur_mon;
 
 static void monitor_command_cb(void *opaque, const char *cmdline,
                                void *readline_opaque);
diff --git a/stubs/monitor.c b/stubs/monitor.c
index e018c8f594..3890771bb5 100644
--- a/stubs/monitor.c
+++ b/stubs/monitor.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #include "qemu-common.h"
 #include "monitor/monitor.h"
 
-Monitor *cur_mon = NULL;
+__thread Monitor *cur_mon;
 
 int monitor_get_fd(Monitor *mon, const char *name, Error **errp)
 {
diff --git a/tests/test-util-sockets.c b/tests/test-util-sockets.c
index acadd85e8f..6195a3ac36 100644
--- a/tests/test-util-sockets.c
+++ b/tests/test-util-sockets.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ int monitor_get_fd(Monitor *mon, const char *fdname, Error 
**errp)
  * stubs/monitor.c is defined, to make sure monitor.o is discarded
  * otherwise we get duplicate syms at link time.
  */
-Monitor *cur_mon;
+__thread Monitor *cur_mon;
 void monitor_init(Chardev *chr, int flags) {}
 
 
-- 
2.17.1