Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.3 3/4] blockdev: acquire AioContext in eject, change, and block_passwd

[Max Reitz]

On 2014-11-19 at 15:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> By acquiring the AioContext we avoid race conditions with the dataplane
> thread which may also be accessing the BlockDriverState.
>
> Fix up eject, change, and block_passwd in a single patch because
> qmp_eject() and qmp_change_blockdev() both call eject_device().  Also
> fix block_passwd while we're tackling a command that takes a block
> encryption password.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
>   blockdev.c                      | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>   hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c |  1 +
>   2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

You could've used blk_get_aio_context() for acquiring the AioContext in 
qmp_eject() instead of in eject_device() (and qmp_change_blockdev(), 
which is the other caller of eject_device(), holds the context anyway).

Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>