io: Document qmp oob suitability of qio_channel_shutdown and io_shutdown

Migration and yank code assume that qio_channel_shutdown is thread
-safe and can be called from qmp oob handler. Document this after
checking the code.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>
Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <32b8c27e256da043f0f00db05bd7ab8fbc506070.1609167865.git.lukasstraub2@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

diff --git a/include/io/channel.h b/include/io/channel.h
index 4d6fe45f63d8f3d040ff4b845d2fa8f7919ee934..ab9ea77959863bddf1f89b2bb23c412dbf864d63 100644 (file)
--- a/include/io/channel.h
+++ b/include/io/channel.h
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ struct QIOChannel {
  * provide additional optional features.
  *
  * Consult the corresponding public API docs for a description
- * of the semantics of each callback
+ * of the semantics of each callback. io_shutdown in particular
+ * must be thread-safe, terminate quickly and must not block.
  */
 struct QIOChannelClass {
     ObjectClass parent;
@@ -510,6 +511,8 @@ int qio_channel_close(QIOChannel *ioc,
  * QIO_CHANNEL_FEATURE_SHUTDOWN prior to calling
  * this method.
  *
+ * This function is thread-safe, terminates quickly and does not block.
+ *
  * Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error
  */
 int qio_channel_shutdown(QIOChannel *ioc,