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[PATCH v3 0/4] util: Add thread-safe qemu_strerror() function


From: Yohei Kojima
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/4] util: Add thread-safe qemu_strerror() function
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 02:07:38 +0900

This patch series adds qemu_strerror() function, which is thread-safe
version of the libc strerror(). The first patch introduces the
qemu_strerror() function, and the second patch replaces strerror()
function in linux-user/* with qemu_strerror() function.

The difference between this patch series are:
  1. Add the following patches
    accel: replace strerror() function to the thread safe qemu_strerror()
    target/i386: replace strerror() function to the thread safe
  2. Add `#include "qemu/cutils.h"` line to linux-user/elfload.c
  3. Fix qemu_strerror() to follow the QEMU coding style

The following lines are same to the cover letter in the previous
version.

Because it involves thread safety, qemu_strerror() should be tested
carefully. But before adding tests, I want to ask (1) will this patch be
acceptable to QEMU project after adding tests, (2) where and how
qemu_strerror() should be tested.

(1) means that: is my approach too complicated to solve potential
thread-unsafe implementation of strerror()? Although strerror() is not
guaranteed to be thread-safe, glibc implements thread-safe strerror().
We have to consider the balance between maintenance costs and potential
risks.

(2) means that: is tests/unit/test-cutils.c a good place for tests?
Because the behavior of qemu_strerror() is changed by the feature test
macros, the tests should be run with different test macros, hopefully
in different OSs.

Note that strerror_r() function called by qemu_strerror() has
different return types between architectures because of the historical
reason. qemu_strerror() handles both the newer POSIX strerror() and the
older POSIX strerror().

All tests except for skipped ones are passed in my environment (x86_64
linux).

Yohei Kojima (4):
  util: Add thread-safe qemu_strerror() function
  linux-user: replace strerror() function to the thread safe
    qemu_strerror()
  accel: replace strerror() function to the thread safe qemu_strerror()
  target/i386: replace strerror() function to the thread safe
    qemu_strerror()

 accel/kvm/kvm-all.c               | 32 +++++++++++---------
 accel/tcg/cputlb.c                |  3 +-
 accel/tcg/perf.c                  |  7 +++--
 include/qemu/cutils.h             | 20 +++++++++++++
 linux-user/elfload.c              |  6 ++--
 linux-user/main.c                 |  5 ++--
 linux-user/syscall.c              |  2 +-
 target/i386/kvm/kvm.c             | 49 ++++++++++++++++---------------
 target/i386/kvm/xen-emu.c         |  7 +++--
 target/i386/nvmm/nvmm-accel-ops.c |  2 +-
 target/i386/sev.c                 |  5 ++--
 target/i386/whpx/whpx-accel-ops.c |  2 +-
 util/cutils.c                     | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 13 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

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2.39.2




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