[PATCH v2 0/2] meson: ensure we enable CMPXCHG128 on x86_64

[Paolo Bonzini]

Alex discovered that CMPXCHG128 was not enabled when building for
x86_64, resulting in slow execution for wide atomic instructions,
creating a huge contention when combined with a high number of cpus
(found while booting android aarch64 guest on x86_64 host).

The problem is that even though we enable -mcx16 option for x86_64, this
is not used when testing for CMPXCHG128. Thus, we silently turn it off.

x86_64 is the only architecture adding machine flags for now, so the
problem is limited to this host architecture.  However, the problem
is generic, so define a new variable for all the -m options, so that
they can be used for other such tests in the future.

Based-on: <20241004223715.1275428-1-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Supersedes: <20241004220123.978938-1-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>

Paolo Bonzini (2):
  meson: define qemu_isa_flags
  meson: ensure -mcx16 is passed when detecting ATOMIC128

 meson.build | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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