Re: [PATCH V12 03/15] iothread: track users with holder name

Markus Armbruster <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.nongnu.qemu-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Zhang Chen <[email protected]> writes:

> Introduce iothread_ref_and_get_aio_context() with a holder argument
> and its counterpart iothread_unref_and_put_aio_context().
>
> Previously, users of an IOThread AioContext did not explicitly record
> their identity, making it difficult to debug which devices or
> subsystems were pinning an IOThread.
>
> Registering a holder takes an IOThread object reference so that the
> IOThread and its AioContext stay alive until the matching put
> operation. Document the ownership and BQL requirements.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Chen <[email protected]>

Does this add tracking, or just the tracking infrastructure?

If the latter, the subject is misleading.
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