Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] console: remove do_safe_dpy_refresh

[Alex Bennée]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Drop the temporary workaround for the broken display updates.
> All display adapters are updated, so this should be safe without
> causing regressions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>

Acked-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>

> ---
>  ui/console.c | 25 +------------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/ui/console.c b/ui/console.c
> index d914cced53..af0c56c600 100644
> --- a/ui/console.c
> +++ b/ui/console.c
> @@ -1579,36 +1579,13 @@ bool dpy_gfx_check_format(QemuConsole *con,
>      return true;
>  }
>
> -/*
> - * Safe DPY refresh for TCG guests. We use the exclusive mechanism to
> - * ensure the TCG vCPUs are quiescent so we can avoid races between
> - * dirty page tracking for direct frame-buffer access by the guest.
> - *
> - * This is a temporary stopgap until we've fixed the dirty tracking
> - * races in display adapters.
> - */
> -static void do_safe_dpy_refresh(DisplayChangeListener *dcl)
> -{
> -    qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
> -    start_exclusive();
> -    qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
> -    dcl->ops->dpy_refresh(dcl);
> -    qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
> -    end_exclusive();
> -    qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
> -}
> -
>  static void dpy_refresh(DisplayState *s)
>  {
>      DisplayChangeListener *dcl;
>
>      QLIST_FOREACH(dcl, &s->listeners, next) {
>          if (dcl->ops->dpy_refresh) {
> -            if (tcg_enabled()) {
> -                do_safe_dpy_refresh(dcl);
> -            } else {
> -                dcl->ops->dpy_refresh(dcl);
> -            }
> +            dcl->ops->dpy_refresh(dcl);
>          }
>      }
>  }


--
Alex Bennée