Block jobs will run in the BlockDriverState's AioContext, which may not
always be the QEMU main loop.
There are some block layer APIs that are either not thread-safe or risk
lock ordering problems. This includes bdrv_unref(), bdrv_close(), and
anything that calls bdrv_drain_all().
The block_job_defer_to_main_loop() API allows a block job to schedule a
function to run in the main loop with the BlockDriverState AioContext
held.
This function will be used to perform cleanup and backing chain
manipulations in block jobs.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1413889440-32577-6-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com
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