The Big QEMU Lock (BQL) has many names and they are confusing. The
actual QemuMutex variable is called qemu_global_mutex but it's commonly
referred to as the BQL in discussions and some code comments. The
locking APIs, however, are called qemu_mutex_lock_iothread() and
qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread().
The "iothread" name is historic and comes from when the main thread was
split into into KVM vcpu threads and the "iothread" (now called the main
loop thread). I have contributed to the confusion myself by introducing
a separate --object iothread, a separate concept unrelated to the BQL.
The "iothread" name is no longer appropriate for the BQL. Rename the
locking APIs to:
- void bql_lock(void)
- void bql_unlock(void)
- bool bql_locked(void)
There are more APIs with "iothread" in their names. Subsequent patches
will rename them. There are also comments and documentation that will be
updated in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Acked-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harshpb@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hyman Huang <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Message-id: 20240102153529.486531-2-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have memory_region_init_ram_from_fd
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-14-philmd@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have memory_region_init_ram_from_file
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-13-philmd@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have memory_region_init_resizeable_ram
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-12-philmd@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have memory_region_init_rom_device
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-11-philmd@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7
("error: Document Error API usage rules"), have
memory_region_init_rom_device_nomigrate() return a boolean
indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-9-philmd@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have memory_region_init_rom()
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-8-philmd@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have memory_region_init_ram()
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-7-philmd@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have memory_region_init_rom_nomigrate
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-4-philmd@linaro.org>
[PMD: Only update 'readonly' field on success (Manos Pitsidianakis)]
Message-Id: <af352e7d-3346-4705-be77-6eed86858d18@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have memory_region_init_ram_nomigrate
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-3-philmd@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have memory_region_init_ram_nomigrate
return a boolean indicating whether an error is set or not.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231120213301.24349-2-philmd@linaro.org>
Using direct pointer dereferencing can allow for unaligned accesses,
which was seen during execution with sanitizers enabled.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Reviewed-by: Chris Rauer <crauer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Foley <pefoley@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Venture <venture@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20231116163633.276671-1-venture@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
If an unexpected error condition happens, we have to abort
(&fatal_error is meant for expected errors).
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20231120133112.82447-1-philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
This helper will allow to convey information about valid
IOVA ranges to virtual IOMMUS.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
[ clg: fixes in memory_region_iommu_set_iova_ranges() and
iommu_set_iova_ranges() documentation ]
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Let's allow for marking memory regions unmergeable, to teach
flatview code and vhost to not merge adjacent aliases to the same memory
region into a larger memory section; instead, we want separate aliases to
stay separate such that we can atomically map/unmap aliases without
affecting other aliases.
This is desired for virtio-mem mapping device memory located on a RAM
memory region via multiple aliases into a memory region container,
resulting in separate memslots that can get (un)mapped atomically.
As an example with virtio-mem, the layout would look something like this:
[...]
0000000240000000-00000020bfffffff (prio 0, i/o): device-memory
0000000240000000-000000043fffffff (prio 0, i/o): virtio-mem
0000000240000000-000000027fffffff (prio 0, ram): alias memslot-0 @mem2 0000000000000000-000000003fffffff
0000000280000000-00000002bfffffff (prio 0, ram): alias memslot-1 @mem2 0000000040000000-000000007fffffff
00000002c0000000-00000002ffffffff (prio 0, ram): alias memslot-2 @mem2 0000000080000000-00000000bfffffff
[...]
Without unmergable memory regions, all three memslots would get merged into
a single memory section. For example, when mapping another alias (e.g.,
virtio-mem-memslot-3) or when unmapping any of the mapped aliases,
memory listeners will first get notified about the removal of the big
memory section to then get notified about re-adding of the new
(differently merged) memory section(s).
In an ideal world, memory listeners would be able to deal with that
atomically, like KVM nowadays does. However, (a) supporting this for other
memory listeners (vhost-user, vfio) is fairly hard: temporary removal
can result in all kinds of issues on concurrent access to guest memory;
and (b) this handling is undesired, because temporarily removing+readding
can consume quite some time on bigger memslots and is not efficient
(e.g., vfio unpinning and repinning pages ...).
Let's allow for marking a memory region unmergeable, such that we
can atomically (un)map aliases to the same memory region, similar to
(un)mapping individual DIMMs.
Similarly, teach vhost code to not redo what flatview core stopped doing:
don't merge such sections. Merging in vhost code is really only relevant
for handling random holes in boot memory where; without this merging,
the vhost-user backend wouldn't be able to mmap() some boot memory
backed on hugetlb.
We'll use this for virtio-mem next.
Message-ID: <20230926185738.277351-18-david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
We really only care about the RAM memory region not being mapped into
an address space yet as long as we're still setting up the
RamDiscardManager. Once mapped into an address space, memory notifiers
would get notified about such a region and any attempts to modify the
RamDiscardManager would be wrong.
While "mapped into an address space" is easy to check for RAM regions that
are mapped directly (following the ->container links), it's harder to
check when such regions are mapped indirectly via aliases. For now, we can
only detect that a region is mapped through an alias (->mapped_via_alias),
but we don't have a handle on these aliases to follow all their ->container
links to test if they are eventually mapped into an address space.
So relax the assertion in memory_region_set_ram_discard_manager(),
remove the check in memory_region_get_ram_discard_manager() and clarify
the doc.
Message-ID: <20230926185738.277351-14-david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
The softmmu/ directory contains files specific to system
emulation. Rename it as system/. Update meson rules, the
MAINTAINERS file and all the documentation and comments.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20231004090629.37473-14-philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
