tcg: enable MTTCG by default for ARM on x86 hosts

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 powerctl changes 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 <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Acked-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Alex Bennée 2017-02-23 18:29:27 +00:00
parent 4881658a4b
commit ca759f9e38
3 changed files with 20 additions and 0 deletions

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configure vendored
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@ -5879,6 +5879,7 @@ 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=""
@ -5897,11 +5898,13 @@ case "$target_name" in
arm|armeb)
TARGET_ARCH=arm
bflt="yes"
mttcg="yes"
gdb_xml_files="arm-core.xml arm-vfp.xml arm-vfp3.xml arm-neon.xml"
;;
aarch64)
TARGET_BASE_ARCH=arm
bflt="yes"
mttcg="yes"
gdb_xml_files="aarch64-core.xml aarch64-fpu.xml arm-core.xml arm-vfp.xml arm-vfp3.xml arm-neon.xml"
;;
cris)
@ -6066,6 +6069,9 @@ if test "$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

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@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
# define TARGET_LONG_BITS 32
#endif
/* ARM processors have a weak memory model */
#define TCG_GUEST_DEFAULT_MO (0)
#define CPUArchState struct CPUARMState
#include "qemu-common.h"

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@ -165,4 +165,15 @@ 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"
#define TCG_TARGET_DEFAULT_MO (TCG_MO_ALL & ~TCG_MO_ST_LD)
#endif