[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 3/4] monitor: more comments on lock-free fleids/funcs

[Peter Xu]

Add some explicit comment for both Readline and cpu_set/cpu_get helpers
that they do not need the mon_lock protection.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
---
 monitor.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index d6c3c08932..ae5bca9d7c 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ struct Monitor {
     int suspend_cnt;            /* Needs to be accessed atomically */
     bool skip_flush;
     bool use_io_thr;
-    ReadLineState *rs;
+    ReadLineState *rs;   /* Only used in parser, so no lock needed. */
     MonitorQMP qmp;
     gchar *mon_cpu_path;
     BlockCompletionFunc *password_completion_cb;
@@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ void qmp_qmp_capabilities(bool has_enable, 
QMPCapabilityList *enable,
     cur_mon->qmp.commands = &qmp_commands;
 }
 
-/* set the current CPU defined by the user */
+/* set the current CPU defined by the user.  BQL needed. */
 int monitor_set_cpu(int cpu_index)
 {
     CPUState *cpu;
@@ -1327,6 +1327,7 @@ int monitor_set_cpu(int cpu_index)
     return 0;
 }
 
+/* BQL neeeded. */
 static CPUState *mon_get_cpu_sync(bool synchronize)
 {
     CPUState *cpu;
-- 
2.17.0