27.06.2017 15:52, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

On 27/06/2017 11:47, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
bdrv_enable_dirty_bitmap - writes to the list, it changes 'disabled'
field. So it requires both BQL and dirty_bitmap_mutex? But the comment
says only about BQL.
This one is interesting.  There could be a concurrent call to
bdrv_set_dirty, indeed.  I'll send a patch.

Also, for example, if I want to create a new bitmap and than somehow
change it, should I do it like this:

bdrv_create_dirty_bitmap(...)

bdrv_dirty_bitmaps_lock(bs)

bitmap  = bdrv_find_dirty_bitmap(bs, name)

<some changes>

bdrv_dirty_bitmaps_unlock(bs)

- because we can't now trust the pointer returned by
bdrv_create_dirty_bitmap, as it releases bitmap lock before return.
If you have the big QEMU lock (you do if you are in the QEMU monitor),
you are protected from changes to the list of bitmaps.

Paolo

but you wrote "Writing to the list requires the BQL _and_ the dirty_bitmap_mutex".

should it be BQL only?


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Best regards,
Vladimir


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