qemu/include/qemu/coroutine.h
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   1/*
   2 * QEMU coroutine implementation
   3 *
   4 * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
   5 *
   6 * Authors:
   7 *  Stefan Hajnoczi    <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
   8 *  Kevin Wolf         <kwolf@redhat.com>
   9 *
  10 * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2 or later.
  11 * See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
  12 *
  13 */
  14
  15#ifndef QEMU_COROUTINE_H
  16#define QEMU_COROUTINE_H
  17
  18#include "qemu/queue.h"
  19#include "qemu/timer.h"
  20
  21/**
  22 * Coroutines are a mechanism for stack switching and can be used for
  23 * cooperative userspace threading.  These functions provide a simple but
  24 * useful flavor of coroutines that is suitable for writing sequential code,
  25 * rather than callbacks, for operations that need to give up control while
  26 * waiting for events to complete.
  27 *
  28 * These functions are re-entrant and may be used outside the global mutex.
  29 */
  30
  31/**
  32 * Mark a function that executes in coroutine context
  33 *
  34 * Functions that execute in coroutine context cannot be called directly from
  35 * normal functions.  In the future it would be nice to enable compiler or
  36 * static checker support for catching such errors.  This annotation might make
  37 * it possible and in the meantime it serves as documentation.
  38 *
  39 * For example:
  40 *
  41 *   static void coroutine_fn foo(void) {
  42 *       ....
  43 *   }
  44 */
  45#define coroutine_fn
  46
  47typedef struct Coroutine Coroutine;
  48
  49/**
  50 * Coroutine entry point
  51 *
  52 * When the coroutine is entered for the first time, opaque is passed in as an
  53 * argument.
  54 *
  55 * When this function returns, the coroutine is destroyed automatically and
  56 * execution continues in the caller who last entered the coroutine.
  57 */
  58typedef void coroutine_fn CoroutineEntry(void *opaque);
  59
  60/**
  61 * Create a new coroutine
  62 *
  63 * Use qemu_coroutine_enter() to actually transfer control to the coroutine.
  64 */
  65Coroutine *qemu_coroutine_create(CoroutineEntry *entry);
  66
  67/**
  68 * Transfer control to a coroutine
  69 *
  70 * The opaque argument is passed as the argument to the entry point when
  71 * entering the coroutine for the first time.  It is subsequently ignored.
  72 */
  73void qemu_coroutine_enter(Coroutine *coroutine, void *opaque);
  74
  75/**
  76 * Transfer control back to a coroutine's caller
  77 *
  78 * This function does not return until the coroutine is re-entered using
  79 * qemu_coroutine_enter().
  80 */
  81void coroutine_fn qemu_coroutine_yield(void);
  82
  83/**
  84 * Get the currently executing coroutine
  85 */
  86Coroutine *coroutine_fn qemu_coroutine_self(void);
  87
  88/**
  89 * Return whether or not currently inside a coroutine
  90 *
  91 * This can be used to write functions that work both when in coroutine context
  92 * and when not in coroutine context.  Note that such functions cannot use the
  93 * coroutine_fn annotation since they work outside coroutine context.
  94 */
  95bool qemu_in_coroutine(void);
  96
  97
  98
  99/**
 100 * CoQueues are a mechanism to queue coroutines in order to continue executing
 101 * them later. They provide the fundamental primitives on which coroutine locks
 102 * are built.
 103 */
 104typedef struct CoQueue {
 105    QTAILQ_HEAD(, Coroutine) entries;
 106} CoQueue;
 107
 108/**
 109 * Initialise a CoQueue. This must be called before any other operation is used
 110 * on the CoQueue.
 111 */
 112void qemu_co_queue_init(CoQueue *queue);
 113
 114/**
 115 * Adds the current coroutine to the CoQueue and transfers control to the
 116 * caller of the coroutine.
 117 */
 118void coroutine_fn qemu_co_queue_wait(CoQueue *queue);
 119
 120/**
 121 * Restarts the next coroutine in the CoQueue and removes it from the queue.
 122 *
 123 * Returns true if a coroutine was restarted, false if the queue is empty.
 124 */
 125bool coroutine_fn qemu_co_queue_next(CoQueue *queue);
 126
 127/**
 128 * Restarts all coroutines in the CoQueue and leaves the queue empty.
 129 */
 130void coroutine_fn qemu_co_queue_restart_all(CoQueue *queue);
 131
 132/**
 133 * Enter the next coroutine in the queue
 134 */
 135bool qemu_co_enter_next(CoQueue *queue);
 136
 137/**
 138 * Checks if the CoQueue is empty.
 139 */
 140bool qemu_co_queue_empty(CoQueue *queue);
 141
 142
 143/**
 144 * Provides a mutex that can be used to synchronise coroutines
 145 */
 146typedef struct CoMutex {
 147    bool locked;
 148    CoQueue queue;
 149} CoMutex;
 150
 151/**
 152 * Initialises a CoMutex. This must be called before any other operation is used
 153 * on the CoMutex.
 154 */
 155void qemu_co_mutex_init(CoMutex *mutex);
 156
 157/**
 158 * Locks the mutex. If the lock cannot be taken immediately, control is
 159 * transferred to the caller of the current coroutine.
 160 */
 161void coroutine_fn qemu_co_mutex_lock(CoMutex *mutex);
 162
 163/**
 164 * Unlocks the mutex and schedules the next coroutine that was waiting for this
 165 * lock to be run.
 166 */
 167void coroutine_fn qemu_co_mutex_unlock(CoMutex *mutex);
 168
 169typedef struct CoRwlock {
 170    bool writer;
 171    int reader;
 172    CoQueue queue;
 173} CoRwlock;
 174
 175/**
 176 * Initialises a CoRwlock. This must be called before any other operation
 177 * is used on the CoRwlock
 178 */
 179void qemu_co_rwlock_init(CoRwlock *lock);
 180
 181/**
 182 * Read locks the CoRwlock. If the lock cannot be taken immediately because
 183 * of a parallel writer, control is transferred to the caller of the current
 184 * coroutine.
 185 */
 186void qemu_co_rwlock_rdlock(CoRwlock *lock);
 187
 188/**
 189 * Write Locks the mutex. If the lock cannot be taken immediately because
 190 * of a parallel reader, control is transferred to the caller of the current
 191 * coroutine.
 192 */
 193void qemu_co_rwlock_wrlock(CoRwlock *lock);
 194
 195/**
 196 * Unlocks the read/write lock and schedules the next coroutine that was
 197 * waiting for this lock to be run.
 198 */
 199void qemu_co_rwlock_unlock(CoRwlock *lock);
 200
 201/**
 202 * Yield the coroutine for a given duration
 203 *
 204 * Behaves similarly to co_sleep_ns(), but the sleeping coroutine will be
 205 * resumed when using aio_poll().
 206 */
 207void coroutine_fn co_aio_sleep_ns(AioContext *ctx, QEMUClockType type,
 208                                  int64_t ns);
 209
 210/**
 211 * Yield until a file descriptor becomes readable
 212 *
 213 * Note that this function clobbers the handlers for the file descriptor.
 214 */
 215void coroutine_fn yield_until_fd_readable(int fd);
 216
 217#endif /* QEMU_COROUTINE_H */
 218