/* * QEMU coroutine implementation * * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011 * * Authors: * Stefan Hajnoczi * Kevin Wolf * * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2 or later. * See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory. * */ #ifndef QEMU_COROUTINE_H #define QEMU_COROUTINE_H #include "qemu/queue.h" #include "qemu/timer.h" /** * Coroutines are a mechanism for stack switching and can be used for * cooperative userspace threading. These functions provide a simple but * useful flavor of coroutines that is suitable for writing sequential code, * rather than callbacks, for operations that need to give up control while * waiting for events to complete. * * These functions are re-entrant and may be used outside the global mutex. */ /** * Mark a function that executes in coroutine context * * Functions that execute in coroutine context cannot be called directly from * normal functions. In the future it would be nice to enable compiler or * static checker support for catching such errors. This annotation might make * it possible and in the meantime it serves as documentation. * * For example: * * static void coroutine_fn foo(void) { * .... * } */ #define coroutine_fn typedef struct Coroutine Coroutine; /** * Coroutine entry point * * When the coroutine is entered for the first time, opaque is passed in as an * argument. * * When this function returns, the coroutine is destroyed automatically and * execution continues in the caller who last entered the coroutine. */ typedef void coroutine_fn CoroutineEntry(void *opaque); /** * Create a new coroutine * * Use qemu_coroutine_enter() to actually transfer control to the coroutine. * The opaque argument is passed as the argument to the entry point. */ Coroutine *qemu_coroutine_create(CoroutineEntry *entry, void *opaque); /** * Transfer control to a coroutine */ void qemu_coroutine_enter(Coroutine *coroutine); /** * Transfer control to a coroutine if it's not active (i.e. part of the call * stack of the running coroutine). Otherwise, do nothing. */ void qemu_coroutine_enter_if_inactive(Coroutine *co); /** * Transfer control to a coroutine and associate it with ctx */ void qemu_aio_coroutine_enter(AioContext *ctx, Coroutine *co); /** * Transfer control back to a coroutine's caller * * This function does not return until the coroutine is re-entered using * qemu_coroutine_enter(). */ void coroutine_fn qemu_coroutine_yield(void); /** * Get the currently executing coroutine */ Coroutine *coroutine_fn qemu_coroutine_self(void); /** * Return whether or not currently inside a coroutine * * This can be used to write functions that work both when in coroutine context * and when not in coroutine context. Note that such functions cannot use the * coroutine_fn annotation since they work outside coroutine context. */ bool qemu_in_coroutine(void); /** * Return true if the coroutine is currently entered * * A coroutine is "entered" if it has not yielded from the current * qemu_coroutine_enter() call used to run it. This does not mean that the * coroutine is currently executing code since it may have transferred control * to another coroutine using qemu_coroutine_enter(). * * When several coroutines enter each other there may be no way to know which * ones have already been entered. In such situations this function can be * used to avoid recursively entering coroutines. */ bool qemu_coroutine_entered(Coroutine *co); /** * Provides a mutex that can be used to synchronise coroutines */ struct CoWaitRecord; typedef struct CoMutex { /* Count of pending lockers; 0 for a free mutex, 1 for an * uncontended mutex. */ unsigned locked; /* Context that is holding the lock. Useful to avoid spinning * when two coroutines on the same AioContext try to get the lock. :) */ AioContext *ctx; /* A queue of waiters. Elements are added atomically in front of * from_push. to_pop is only populated, and popped from, by whoever * is in charge of the next wakeup. This can be an unlocker or, * through the handoff protocol, a locker that is about to go to sleep. */ QSLIST_HEAD(, CoWaitRecord) from_push, to_pop; unsigned handoff, sequence; Coroutine *holder; } CoMutex; /** * Initialises a CoMutex. This must be called before any other operation is used * on the CoMutex. */ void qemu_co_mutex_init(CoMutex *mutex); /** * Locks the mutex. If the lock cannot be taken immediately, control is * transferred to the caller of the current coroutine. */ void coroutine_fn qemu_co_mutex_lock(CoMutex *mutex); /** * Unlocks the mutex and schedules the next coroutine that was waiting for this * lock to be run. */ void coroutine_fn qemu_co_mutex_unlock(CoMutex *mutex); /** * CoQueues are a mechanism to queue coroutines in order to continue executing * them later. They are similar to condition variables, but they need help * from an external mutex in order to maintain thread-safety. */ typedef struct CoQueue { QSIMPLEQ_HEAD(, Coroutine) entries; } CoQueue; /** * Initialise a CoQueue. This must be called before any other operation is used * on the CoQueue. */ void qemu_co_queue_init(CoQueue *queue); /** * Adds the current coroutine to the CoQueue and transfers control to the * caller of the coroutine. The mutex is unlocked during the wait and * locked again afterwards. */ void coroutine_fn qemu_co_queue_wait(CoQueue *queue, CoMutex *mutex); /** * Restarts the next coroutine in the CoQueue and removes it from the queue. * * Returns true if a coroutine was restarted, false if the queue is empty. */ bool coroutine_fn qemu_co_queue_next(CoQueue *queue); /** * Restarts all coroutines in the CoQueue and leaves the queue empty. */ void coroutine_fn qemu_co_queue_restart_all(CoQueue *queue); /** * Enter the next coroutine in the queue */ bool qemu_co_enter_next(CoQueue *queue); /** * Checks if the CoQueue is empty. */ bool qemu_co_queue_empty(CoQueue *queue); typedef struct CoRwlock { int pending_writer; int reader; CoMutex mutex; CoQueue queue; } CoRwlock; /** * Initialises a CoRwlock. This must be called before any other operation * is used on the CoRwlock */ void qemu_co_rwlock_init(CoRwlock *lock); /** * Read locks the CoRwlock. If the lock cannot be taken immediately because * of a parallel writer, control is transferred to the caller of the current * coroutine. */ void qemu_co_rwlock_rdlock(CoRwlock *lock); /** * Write Locks the CoRwlock from a reader. This is a bit more efficient than * @qemu_co_rwlock_unlock followed by a separate @qemu_co_rwlock_wrlock. * However, if the lock cannot be upgraded immediately, control is transferred * to the caller of the current coroutine. Also, @qemu_co_rwlock_upgrade * only overrides CoRwlock fairness if there are no concurrent readers, so * another writer might run while @qemu_co_rwlock_upgrade blocks. */ void qemu_co_rwlock_upgrade(CoRwlock *lock); /** * Downgrades a write-side critical section to a reader. Downgrading with * @qemu_co_rwlock_downgrade never blocks, unlike @qemu_co_rwlock_unlock * followed by @qemu_co_rwlock_rdlock. This makes it more efficient, but * may also sometimes be necessary for correctness. */ void qemu_co_rwlock_downgrade(CoRwlock *lock); /** * Write Locks the mutex. If the lock cannot be taken immediately because * of a parallel reader, control is transferred to the caller of the current * coroutine. */ void qemu_co_rwlock_wrlock(CoRwlock *lock); /** * Unlocks the read/write lock and schedules the next coroutine that was * waiting for this lock to be run. */ void qemu_co_rwlock_unlock(CoRwlock *lock); /** * Yield the coroutine for a given duration */ void coroutine_fn qemu_co_sleep_ns(QEMUClockType type, int64_t ns); /** * Yield until a file descriptor becomes readable * * Note that this function clobbers the handlers for the file descriptor. */ void coroutine_fn yield_until_fd_readable(int fd); #endif /* QEMU_COROUTINE_H */