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[Qemu-arm] [PATCH v7 26/27] tcg: enable MTTCG by default for ARM on x86
From: |
Alex Bennée |
Subject: |
[Qemu-arm] [PATCH v7 26/27] tcg: enable MTTCG by default for ARM on x86 hosts |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 17:05:06 +0000 |
This enables the multi-threaded system emulation by default for ARMv7
and ARMv8 guests using the x86_64 TCG backend. This is because on the
guest side:
- The ARM translate.c/translate-64.c have been converted to
- use MTTCG safe atomic primitives
- emit the appropriate barrier ops
- The ARM machine has been updated to
- hold the BQL when modifying shared cross-vCPU state
- defer cpu_reset to async safe work
All the host backends support the barrier and atomic primitives but
need to provide same-or-better support for normal load/store
operations.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
---
v7
- drop configure check for backend
- declare backend memory order for x86
- declare guest memory order for ARM
- add configure snippet to set TARGET_SUPPORTS_MTTCG
---
configure | 6 ++++++
target/arm/cpu.h | 3 +++
tcg/i386/tcg-target.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 17d52cdd74..a23245fdf4 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5881,6 +5881,7 @@ mkdir -p $target_dir
echo "# Automatically generated by configure - do not modify" >
$config_target_mak
bflt="no"
+mttcg="no"
interp_prefix1=$(echo "$interp_prefix" | sed "s/%M/$target_name/g")
gdb_xml_files=""
@@ -5899,11 +5900,13 @@ case "$target_name" in
arm|armeb)
TARGET_ARCH=arm
bflt="yes"
+ mttcg="yes"
gdb_xml_files="arm-core.xml arm-vfp.xml arm-vfp3.xml arm-neon.xml"
;;
aarch64)
TARGET_BASE_ARCH=arm
bflt="yes"
+ mttcg="yes"
gdb_xml_files="aarch64-core.xml aarch64-fpu.xml arm-core.xml arm-vfp.xml
arm-vfp3.xml arm-neon.xml"
;;
cris)
@@ -6055,6 +6058,9 @@ if test "$target_bigendian" = "yes" ; then
fi
if test "$target_softmmu" = "yes" ; then
echo "CONFIG_SOFTMMU=y" >> $config_target_mak
+ if test "$mttcg" = "yes" ; then
+ echo "TARGET_SUPPORTS_MTTCG=y" >> $config_target_mak
+ fi
fi
if test "$target_user_only" = "yes" ; then
echo "CONFIG_USER_ONLY=y" >> $config_target_mak
diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.h b/target/arm/cpu.h
index 29d15fc522..659e246a54 100644
--- a/target/arm/cpu.h
+++ b/target/arm/cpu.h
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
# define TARGET_LONG_BITS 32
#endif
+/* ARM processors have a weak memory model */
+#define TCG_DEFAULT_MO (0)
+
#define CPUArchState struct CPUARMState
#include "qemu-common.h"
diff --git a/tcg/i386/tcg-target.h b/tcg/i386/tcg-target.h
index 21d96ec35c..536190f647 100644
--- a/tcg/i386/tcg-target.h
+++ b/tcg/i386/tcg-target.h
@@ -165,4 +165,20 @@ static inline void flush_icache_range(uintptr_t start,
uintptr_t stop)
{
}
+/* This defines the natural memory order supported by this
+ * architecture before guarantees made by various barrier
+ * instructions.
+ *
+ * The x86 has a pretty strong memory ordering which only really
+ * allows for some stores to be re-ordered after loads.
+ */
+#include "tcg-mo.h"
+
+static inline int get_tcg_target_mo(void)
+{
+ return TCG_MO_ALL & ~TCG_MO_LD_ST;
+}
+
+#define TCG_TARGET_DEFAULT_MO get_tcg_target_mo()
+
#endif
--
2.11.0
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Alex Bennée <=