qemu/docs/devel/index.rst
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy aaaa20b69b scripts: add block-coroutine-wrapper.py
We have a very frequent pattern of creating a coroutine from a function
with several arguments:

  - create a structure to pack parameters
  - create _entry function to call original function taking parameters
    from struct
  - do different magic to handle completion: set ret to NOT_DONE or
    EINPROGRESS or use separate bool field
  - fill the struct and create coroutine from _entry function with this
    struct as a parameter
  - do coroutine enter and BDRV_POLL_WHILE loop

Let's reduce code duplication by generating coroutine wrappers.

This patch adds scripts/block-coroutine-wrapper.py together with some
friends, which will generate functions with declared prototypes marked
by the 'generated_co_wrapper' specifier.

The usage of new code generation is as follows:

    1. define the coroutine function somewhere

        int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_NAME(...) {...}

    2. declare in some header file

        int generated_co_wrapper bdrv_NAME(...);

       with same list of parameters (generated_co_wrapper is
       defined in "include/block/block.h").

    3. Make sure the block_gen_c declaration in block/meson.build
       mentions the file with your marker function.

Still, no function is now marked, this work is for the following
commit.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200924185414.28642-5-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
[Added encoding='utf-8' to open() calls as requested by Vladimir. Fixed
typo and grammar issues pointed out by Eric Blake. Removed clang-format
dependency that caused build test issues.
--Stefan]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2020-10-05 10:59:06 +01:00

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.. This is the top level page for the 'devel' manual.
QEMU Developer's Guide
======================
This manual documents various parts of the internals of QEMU.
You only need to read it if you are interested in reading or
modifying QEMU's source code.
Contents:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
build-system
kconfig
loads-stores
memory
migration
atomics
stable-process
testing
decodetree
secure-coding-practices
tcg
tcg-icount
multi-thread-tcg
tcg-plugins
bitops
reset
s390-dasd-ipl
clocks
qom
block-coroutine-wrapper