Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.7] monitor: eliminate monitor_event_state_lock

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:17:08 +0200
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> This lock does not protect anything that the BQL does not already
> protect.  Furthermore, with -nodefaults and no monitor, the mutex
> is not initialized but monitor_protocol_event_queue is called
> anyway, which causes a crash under mingw (and only works by luck.
> under Linux or other POSIX OSes).
> 
> Reported-by: Orx Goshen <address@hidden>
> Cc: Daniel Berrange <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

Applied to the qmp branch, thanks.

> ---
>       Maybe I'm missing something?

I don't think so.

> 
>  monitor.c | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> index 74f3f1b..0ae99dc 100644
> --- a/monitor.c
> +++ b/monitor.c
> @@ -511,7 +511,6 @@ static const char *monitor_event_names[] = {
>  QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON(ARRAY_SIZE(monitor_event_names) != QEVENT_MAX)
>  
>  MonitorEventState monitor_event_state[QEVENT_MAX];
> -QemuMutex monitor_event_state_lock;
>  
>  /*
>   * Emits the event to every monitor instance
> @@ -543,7 +542,6 @@ monitor_protocol_event_queue(MonitorEvent event,
>      int64_t now = qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME);
>      assert(event < QEVENT_MAX);
>  
> -    qemu_mutex_lock(&monitor_event_state_lock);
>      evstate = &(monitor_event_state[event]);
>      trace_monitor_protocol_event_queue(event,
>                                         data,
> @@ -576,7 +574,6 @@ monitor_protocol_event_queue(MonitorEvent event,
>              evstate->last = now;
>          }
>      }
> -    qemu_mutex_unlock(&monitor_event_state_lock);
>  }
>  
>  
> @@ -589,7 +586,6 @@ static void monitor_protocol_event_handler(void *opaque)
>      MonitorEventState *evstate = opaque;
>      int64_t now = qemu_clock_get_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME);
>  
> -    qemu_mutex_lock(&monitor_event_state_lock);
>  
>      trace_monitor_protocol_event_handler(evstate->event,
>                                           evstate->data,
> @@ -601,7 +597,6 @@ static void monitor_protocol_event_handler(void *opaque)
>          evstate->data = NULL;
>      }
>      evstate->last = now;
> -    qemu_mutex_unlock(&monitor_event_state_lock);
>  }
>  
>  
> @@ -638,7 +633,6 @@ monitor_protocol_event_throttle(MonitorEvent event,
>   * and initialize state */
>  static void monitor_protocol_event_init(void)
>  {
> -    qemu_mutex_init(&monitor_event_state_lock);
>      /* Limit RTC & BALLOON events to 1 per second */
>      monitor_protocol_event_throttle(QEVENT_RTC_CHANGE, 1000);
>      monitor_protocol_event_throttle(QEVENT_BALLOON_CHANGE, 1000);