On Fri, 08/17 19:02, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Simimlar to AIO_WAIT_WHILE(), job_finish_sync() needs to release the > AioContext lock of the job before calling aio_poll(). Otherwise, > callbacks called by aio_poll() would possibly take the lock a second > time and run into a deadlock with a nested AIO_WAIT_WHILE() call. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> > --- > job.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/job.c b/job.c > index a746bfe70b..6acf55bceb 100644 > --- a/job.c > +++ b/job.c > @@ -1016,7 +1016,10 @@ int job_finish_sync(Job *job, void (*finish)(Job *, > Error **errp), Error **errp) > job_drain(job); > } > while (!job_is_completed(job)) { > + AioContext *aio_context = job->aio_context; > + aio_context_release(aio_context); > aio_poll(qemu_get_aio_context(), true); > + aio_context_acquire(aio_context); > } > ret = (job_is_cancelled(job) && job->ret == 0) ? -ECANCELED : job->ret; > job_unref(job);
Why doesn't this function just use AIO_WAIT_WHILE()? Fam