From: aliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:42:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify qemu_bh_schedule_idle() usage
X-Git-Tag: TizenStudio_2.0_p2.3.2~208^2~13710
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=80d3580b29d84221650fd2dc7f26706d50f21197;p=sdk%2Femulator%2Fqemu.git

Clarify qemu_bh_schedule_idle() usage

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5576 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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diff --git a/qemu-common.h b/qemu-common.h
index 0c6f4de..f23d7b4 100644
--- a/qemu-common.h
+++ b/qemu-common.h
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ typedef void QEMUBHFunc(void *opaque);
 
 QEMUBH *qemu_bh_new(QEMUBHFunc *cb, void *opaque);
 void qemu_bh_schedule(QEMUBH *bh);
+/* Bottom halfs that are scheduled from a bottom half handler are instantly
+ * invoked.  This can create an infinite loop if a bottom half handler
+ * schedules itself.  qemu_bh_schedule_idle() avoids this infinite loop by
+ * ensuring that the bottom half isn't executed until the next main loop
+ * iteration.
+ */
 void qemu_bh_schedule_idle(QEMUBH *bh);
 void qemu_bh_cancel(QEMUBH *bh);
 void qemu_bh_delete(QEMUBH *bh);