[Qemu-devel] [RFC v5 09/26] monitor: create monitor dedicate iothread

[Peter Xu]

Create one IOThread for the monitors, prepared to handle all the
input/output IOs using existing iothread framework.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com>
---
 monitor.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index a70ab5606b..6b60f6d91b 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
 #include "qmp-introspect.h"
 #include "sysemu/qtest.h"
 #include "sysemu/cpus.h"
+#include "sysemu/iothread.h"
 #include "qemu/cutils.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/dispatch.h"
 
@@ -208,6 +209,12 @@ struct Monitor {
     QTAILQ_ENTRY(Monitor) entry;
 };
 
+struct MonitorGlobal {
+    IOThread *mon_iothread;
+};
+
+static struct MonitorGlobal mon_global;
+
 /* QMP checker flags */
 #define QMP_ACCEPT_UNKNOWNS 1
 
@@ -4034,12 +4041,24 @@ static void sortcmdlist(void)
     qsort((void *)info_cmds, array_num, elem_size, compare_mon_cmd);
 }
 
+static GMainContext *monitor_io_context_get(void)
+{
+    return iothread_get_g_main_context(mon_global.mon_iothread);
+}
+
+static void monitor_iothread_init(void)
+{
+    mon_global.mon_iothread = iothread_create("mon_iothread",
+                                              &error_abort);
+}
+
 void monitor_init_globals(void)
 {
     monitor_init_qmp_commands();
     monitor_qapi_event_init();
     sortcmdlist();
     qemu_mutex_init(&monitor_lock);
+    monitor_iothread_init();
 }
 
 /* These functions just adapt the readline interface in a typesafe way.  We
@@ -4117,6 +4136,16 @@ void monitor_cleanup(void)
 {
     Monitor *mon, *next;
 
+    /*
+     * We need to explicitly stop the iothread (but not destroy it),
+     * cleanup the monitor resources, then destroy the iothread.  See
+     * again on the glib bug mentioned in 2b316774f6 for a reason.
+     *
+     * TODO: the bug is fixed in glib 2.28, so we can remove this hack
+     * as long as we won't support glib versions older than it.
+     */
+    iothread_stop(mon_global.mon_iothread);
+
     qemu_mutex_lock(&monitor_lock);
     QTAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE(mon, &mon_list, entry, next) {
         QTAILQ_REMOVE(&mon_list, mon, entry);
@@ -4124,6 +4153,9 @@ void monitor_cleanup(void)
         g_free(mon);
     }
     qemu_mutex_unlock(&monitor_lock);
+
+    iothread_destroy(mon_global.mon_iothread);
+    mon_global.mon_iothread = NULL;
 }
 
 QemuOptsList qemu_mon_opts = {
-- 
2.14.3