From e9a3591fa09f273592451f8b9f83692bcbedb60c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Borntraeger Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:16:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] configure: enable --s390-pgste linker option KVM guests on s390 need a different page table layout than normal processes (2kb page table + 2kb page status extensions vs 2kb page table only). As of today this has to be enabled via the vm.allocate_pgste sysctl. Newer kernels (>= 4.12) on s390 check for an S390_PGSTE program header and enable the pgste page table extensions in that case. This makes the vm.allocate_pgste sysctl unnecessary. We enable this program header for the s390 system emulation (qemu-system-s390x) if we build on s390 - for s390 system emulation - the linker supports --s390-pgste (binutils >= 2.29) - KVM is enabled This will allow distributions to disable the global vm.allocate_pgste sysctl, which will improve the page table allocation for non KVM processes as only 2kb chunks are necessary. Cc: Christian Ehrhardt Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Dan Horak Cc: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Acked-by: Janosch Frank Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth Message-Id: <1503483383-199649-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck --- configure | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index dd73cce62f..fb7e34a901 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -240,6 +240,11 @@ supported_target() { return 1 } + +ld_has() { + $ld --help 2>/dev/null | grep ".$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 +} + # default parameters source_path=$(dirname "$0") cpu="" @@ -5043,7 +5048,7 @@ fi # Use ASLR, no-SEH and DEP if available if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then for flag in --dynamicbase --no-seh --nxcompat; do - if $ld --help 2>/dev/null | grep ".$flag" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then + if ld_has $flag ; then LDFLAGS="-Wl,$flag $LDFLAGS" fi done @@ -6522,6 +6527,20 @@ if test "$target_linux_user" = "yes" -o "$target_bsd_user" = "yes" ; then ldflags="$ldflags $textseg_ldflags" fi +# Newer kernels on s390 check for an S390_PGSTE program header and +# enable the pgste page table extensions in that case. This makes +# the vm.allocate_pgste sysctl unnecessary. We enable this program +# header if +# - we build on s390x +# - we build the system emulation for s390x (qemu-system-s390x) +# - KVM is enabled +# - the linker supports --s390-pgste +if test "$TARGET_ARCH" = "s390x" -a "$target_softmmu" = "yes" -a "$ARCH" = "s390x" -a "$kvm" = "yes"; then + if ld_has --s390-pgste ; then + ldflags="-Wl,--s390-pgste $ldflags" + fi +fi + echo "LDFLAGS+=$ldflags" >> $config_target_mak echo "QEMU_CFLAGS+=$cflags" >> $config_target_mak