提交 d02d8dde 编写于 作者: S Stefan Hajnoczi

docs: mark nested AioContext locking as a legacy API

See the patch for why nested AioContext locking is no longer allowed.
Signed-off-by: NStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20171207201320.19284-3-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: NStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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......@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() for mutual exclusion. Once the
context is acquired no other thread can access it or run event loop iterations
in this AioContext.
aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() calls may be nested. This
means you can call them if you're not sure whether #2 applies.
Legacy code sometimes nests aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() calls.
Do not use nesting anymore, it is incompatible with the BDRV_POLL_WHILE() macro
used in the block layer and can lead to hangs.
There is currently no lock ordering rule if a thread needs to acquire multiple
AioContexts simultaneously. Therefore, it is only safe for code holding the
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