On 9/24/20 1:54 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
We have a very frequent pattern of creating a coroutine from a function
with several arguments:
- create a structure to pack parameters
- create _entry function to call original function taking parameters
from struct
- do different magic to handle completion: set ret to NOT_DONE or
EINPROGRESS or use separate bool field
- fill the struct and create coroutine from _entry function with this
struct as a parameter
- do coroutine enter and BDRV_POLL_WHILE loop
Let's reduce code duplication by generating coroutine wrappers.
This patch adds scripts/block-coroutine-wrapper.py together with some
friends, which will generate functions with declared prototypes marked
by the 'generated_co_wrapper' specifier.
The usage of new code generation is as follows:
1. define the coroutine function somewhere
int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_NAME(...) {...}
2. declare in some header file
int generated_co_wrapper bdrv_NAME(...);
with same list of parameters (generated_co_wrapper is
defined in "include/block/block.h").
3. Make sure the block_gen_c delaration in block/meson.build
declaration
mentions the file with your marker function.
Still, no function is now marked, this work is for the following
commit.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsement...@virtuozzo.com>
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+++ b/docs/devel/block-coroutine-wrapper.rst
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+=======================
+block-coroutine-wrapper
+=======================
+
+A lot of functions in QEMU block layer (see ``block/*``) can only be
+called in coroutine context. Such functions are normally marked by the
+coroutine_fn specifier. Still, sometimes we need to call them from
+non-coroutine context; for this we need to start a coroutine, run the
+needed function from it and wait for coroutine finish in
to finish in a
+BDRV_POLL_WHILE() loop. To run a coroutine we need a function with one
+void* argument. So for each coroutine_fn function which needs a
+non-coroutine interface, we should define a structure to pack the
+parameters, define a separate function to unpack the parameters and
+call the original function and finally define a new interface function
+with same list of arguments as original one, which will pack the
+parameters into a struct, create a coroutine, run it and wait in
+BDRV_POLL_WHILE() loop. It's boring to create such wrappers by hand,
+so we have a script to generate them.
+
+++ b/scripts/block-coroutine-wrapper.py
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
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