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block-coroutine-wrapper
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A lot of functions in QEMU block layer (see ``block/*``) can only be
called in coroutine context. Such functions are normally marked by the
coroutine_fn specifier. Still, sometimes we need to call them from
non-coroutine context; for this we need to start a coroutine, run the
needed function from it and wait for the coroutine to finish in a
BDRV_POLL_WHILE() loop. To run a coroutine we need a function with one
void* argument. So for each coroutine_fn function which needs a
non-coroutine interface, we should define a structure to pack the
parameters, define a separate function to unpack the parameters and
call the original function and finally define a new interface function
with same list of arguments as original one, which will pack the
parameters into a struct, create a coroutine, run it and wait in
BDRV_POLL_WHILE() loop. It's boring to create such wrappers by hand,
so we have a script to generate them.
Usage
=====
Assume we have defined the ``coroutine_fn`` function
``bdrv_co_foo(<some args>)`` and need a non-coroutine interface for it,
called ``bdrv_foo(<same args>)``. In this case the script can help. To
trigger the generation:
1. You need ``bdrv_foo`` declaration somewhere (for example, in
``block/coroutines.h``) with the ``generated_co_wrapper`` mark,
like this:
.. code-block:: c
int generated_co_wrapper bdrv_foo(<some args>);
2. You need to feed this declaration to block-coroutine-wrapper script.
For this, add the .h (or .c) file with the declaration to the
``input: files(...)`` list of ``block_gen_c`` target declaration in
``block/meson.build``
You are done. During the build, coroutine wrappers will be generated in
``<BUILD_DIR>/block/block-gen.c``.
Links
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1. The script location is ``scripts/block-coroutine-wrapper.py``.
2. Generic place for private ``generated_co_wrapper`` declarations is
``block/coroutines.h``, for public declarations:
``include/block/block.h``
3. The core API of generated coroutine wrappers is placed in
(not generated) ``block/block-gen.h``
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