Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] chardev: convert leftover glib APIs to use dedicate gcontext

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 28/12/2017 08:29, Peter Xu wrote:
> There were existing work that tried to allow chardev to be run in a
> dedicated gcontext rather than the default main context/thread.
> Basically that work passed in the correct gcontext during
> g_source_attach().  However, I found something missing along the way,
> that some legacy glib APIs are used by chardev code which take the
> main context as default:
> 
>    g_timeout_add_seconds
>    g_timeout_add
>    g_idle_add
> 
> To fully allow the chardevs to be run in dedicated gcontext, we need
> to convert all these legacy APIs into g_source_attach() calls as well,
> with the correct gcontext passed in.
> 
> This series tries to clean the rest of things up.
> 
> I picked up patch 1 from monitor-oob series into this series (which is
> a missing of chardev frontend call fix for g_source_attach()), so that
> this series can be a complete fix.
> 
> Please review.  Thanks,
> 
> Peter Xu (3):
>   chardev: use backend chr context when watch for fe
>   chardev: let g_idle_add() be with chardev gcontext
>   chardev: introduce qemu_chr_timeout_add() and use
> 
>  chardev/char-fe.c      |  2 +-
>  chardev/char-pty.c     | 16 ++++++++--------
>  chardev/char-socket.c  |  4 ++--
>  chardev/char.c         | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/char/terminal3270.c |  7 ++++---
>  include/chardev/char.h |  2 ++
>  6 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 

All queued, thanks!

Paolo