On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 02:37:29PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> When gcontext is used with iothread, the context will be destroyed
> during iothread_stop(). That's not good since sometimes we would like
> to keep the resources until iothread is destroyed, but we may want to
> stop the thread before that point.
>
> Delay the destruction of gcontext to iothread finalize. Then we can do:
>
> iothread_stop(thread);
> some_cleanup_on_resources();
> iothread_destroy(thread);
>
> We may need this patch if we want to run chardev IOs in iothreads and
> hopefully clean them up correctly. For more specific information,
> please see 2b316774f6 ("qemu-char: do not operate on sources from
> finalize callbacks").
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
> ---
> iothread.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
