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    eventfd: making it thread safe · 55ce75fa
    Alexey Kardashevskiy authored
    
    
    QEMU uses IO handlers to run select() in the main loop.
    The handlers list is managed by qemu_set_fd_handler() helper
    which works fine when called from the main thread as it is
    called when select() is not waiting.
    
    However IO handlers list can be changed in the thread other than
    the main one doing os_host_main_loop_wait(), for example, as a result
    of a hypercall which changes PCI config space (VFIO on POWER is the case)
    and enables/disabled MSI/MSIX which closes/creates eventfd handles.
    As the main loop should be waiting on the newly created eventfds,
    it has to be restarted.
    
    The patch adds the qemu_notify_event() call to interrupt select()
    to make main_loop() restart select() with the updated IO handlers
    list.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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