configure: fix performance regression due to PIC objects

Because most files in QEMU are grouped into static libraries, Meson conservatively
compiles them with -fPIC.  This is overkill and produces slowdowns up to 20% on
some TCG tests.

As a stopgap measure, use the b_staticpic option to limit the slowdown to
--enable-pie.  https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/7760 will allow
us to use b_staticpic=false and let Meson do the right thing.

Reported-by: Ahmed Karaman <ahmedkrmn@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200924092314.1722645-57-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201007160038.26953-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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Paolo Bonzini 2020-10-07 17:00:17 +01:00 committed by Alex Bennée
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@ -7209,6 +7209,7 @@ NINJA=${ninja:-$PWD/ninjatool} $meson setup \
-Dwerror=$(if test "$werror" = yes; then echo true; else echo false; fi) \
-Dstrip=$(if test "$strip_opt" = yes; then echo true; else echo false; fi) \
-Db_pie=$(if test "$pie" = yes; then echo true; else echo false; fi) \
-Db_staticpic=$(if test "$pie" = yes; then echo true; else echo false; fi) \
-Db_coverage=$(if test "$gcov" = yes; then echo true; else echo false; fi) \
-Dmalloc=$malloc -Dmalloc_trim=$malloc_trim -Dsparse=$sparse \
-Dkvm=$kvm -Dhax=$hax -Dwhpx=$whpx -Dhvf=$hvf \