This is a prerequisite for supporting multiple TCG contexts, since
we will have threads generating code in separate regions of
code_gen_buffer.
For this we need a new field (.size) in struct tb_tc to keep
track of the size of the translated code. This field uses a size_t
to avoid adding a hole to the struct, although really an unsigned
int would have been enough.
The comparison function we use is optimized for the common case:
insertions. Profiling shows that upon booting debian-arm, 98%
of comparisons are between existing tb's (i.e. a->size and b->size
are both !0), which happens during insertions (and removals, but
those are rare). The remaining cases are lookups. From reading the glib
sources we see that the first key is always the lookup key. However,
the code does not assume this to always be the case because this
behaviour is not guaranteed in the glib docs. However, we embed
this knowledge in the code as a branch hint for the compiler.
Note that tb_free does not free space in the code_gen_buffer anymore,
since we cannot easily know whether the tb is the last one inserted
in code_gen_buffer. The next patch in this series renames tb_free
to tb_remove to reflect this.
Performance-wise, lookups in tb_find_pc are the same as before:
O(log n). However, insertions are O(log n) instead of O(1), which
results in a small slowdown when booting debian-arm:
Performance counter stats for 'build/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm \
-machine type=virt -nographic -smp 1 -m 4096 \
-netdev user,id=unet,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 \
-device virtio-net-device,netdev=unet \
-drive file=img/arm/jessie-arm32.qcow2,id=myblock,index=0,if=none \
-device virtio-blk-device,drive=myblock \
-kernel img/arm/aarch32-current-linux-kernel-only.img \
-append console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/vda1 \
-name arm,debug-threads=on -smp 1' (10 runs):
- Before:
8048.598422 task-clock (msec) # 0.931 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.28% )
16,974 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.12% )
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
10,125 page-faults # 0.001 M/sec ( +- 1.23% )
35,144,901,879 cycles # 4.367 GHz ( +- 0.14% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
65,758,252,643 instructions # 1.87 insns per cycle ( +- 0.33% )
10,871,298,668 branches # 1350.707 M/sec ( +- 0.41% )
192,322,212 branch-misses # 1.77% of all branches ( +- 0.32% )
8.640869419 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.57% )
- After:
8146.242027 task-clock (msec) # 0.923 CPUs utilized ( +- 1.23% )
17,016 context-switches # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.40% )
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
18,769 page-faults # 0.002 M/sec ( +- 0.45% )
35,660,956,120 cycles # 4.378 GHz ( +- 1.22% )
<not supported> stalled-cycles-frontend
<not supported> stalled-cycles-backend
65,095,366,607 instructions # 1.83 insns per cycle ( +- 1.73% )
10,803,480,261 branches # 1326.192 M/sec ( +- 1.95% )
195,601,289 branch-misses # 1.81% of all branches ( +- 0.39% )
8.828660235 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.38% )
Backports commit 2ac01d6dafabd4a726254eea98824c798d416ee4 from qemu
This allows sharing flat views between address spaces (AS) when
the same root memory region is used when creating a new address space.
This is done by walking through all ASes and caching one FlatView per
a physical root MR (i.e. not aliased).
This removes search for duplicates from address_space_init_shareable() as
FlatViews are shared elsewhere and keeping as::ref_count correct seems
an unnecessary and useless complication.
This should cause no change and memory use or boot time yet.
Backports commit 967dc9b1194a9281124b2e1ce67b6c3359a2138f from qemu
Now that all non-abstract TYPE_MACHINE subclasses have the -machine
suffix, add an assert to ensure this will be always true.
Backports commit dcb3d601115eed77aef543fe3a920adc17544e06 from qemu
Error messages refer to nodes of the QObject being visited by name.
Trouble is the names are sometimes less than helpful:
* The name of the root QObject is whatever @name argument got passed
to the visitor, except NULL gets mapped to "null". We commonly pass
NULL. Not good.
Avoiding errors "at the root" mitigates. For instance,
visit_start_struct() can only fail when the visited object is not a
dictionary, and we commonly ensure it is beforehand.
* The name of a QDict's member is the member key. Good enough only
when this happens to be unique.
* The name of a QList's member is "null". Not good.
Improve error messages by referring to nodes by path instead, as
follows:
* The path of the root QObject is whatever @name argument got passed
to the visitor, except NULL gets mapped to "<anonymous>".
* The path of a root QDict's member is the member key.
* The path of a root QList's member is "[%u]", where %u is the list
index, starting at zero.
* The path of a non-root QDict's member is the path of the QDict
concatenated with "." and the member key.
* The path of a non-root QList's member is the path of the QList
concatenated with "[%u]", where %u is the list index.
For example, the incorrect QMP command
{ "execute": "blockdev-add", "arguments": { "node-name": "foo", "driver": "raw", "file": {"driver": "file" } } }
now fails with
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Parameter 'file.filename' is missing"}}
instead of
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Parameter 'filename' is missing"}}
and
{ "execute": "input-send-event", "arguments": { "device": "bar", "events": [ [] ] } }
now fails with
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'events[0]', expected: object"}}
instead of
{"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'null', expected: QDict"}}
Aside: calling the thing "parameter" is suboptimal for QMP, because
the root object is "arguments" there.
The qobject output visitor doesn't have this problem because it should
not fail. Same for dealloc and clone visitors.
The string visitors don't have this problem because they visit just
one value, whose name needs to be passed to the visitor as @name. The
string output visitor shouldn't fail anyway.
The options visitor uses QemuOpts names. Their name space is flat, so
the use of QDict member keys as names is fine. NULL names used with
roots and lists could conceivably result in bad error messages. Left
for another day.
Backports commit a9fc37f6bc3f2ab90585cb16493da9f6dcfbfbcf from qemu
Commit 7f8f9ef1 introduced the ability to store a list of
integers as a sorted list of ranges, but when merging ranges,
it leaks one or more ranges. It was also using range_get_last()
incorrectly within range_compare() (a range is a start/end pair,
but range_get_last() is for start/len pairs), and will also
mishandle a range ending in UINT64_MAX (remember, we document
that no range covers 2**64 bytes, but that ranges that end on
UINT64_MAX have end < begin).
The whole merge algorithm was rather complex, and included
unnecessary passes over data within glib functions, and enough
indirection to make it hard to easily plug the data leaks.
Since we are already hard-coding things to a list of ranges,
just rewrite the thing to open-code the traversal and
comparisons, by making the range_compare() helper function give
us an answer that is easier to use, at which point we avoid the
need to pass any callbacks to g_list_*(). Then by reusing
range_extend() instead of duplicating effort with range_merge(),
we cover the corner cases correctly.
Drop the now-unused range_merge() and ranges_can_merge().
Doing this lets test-string-{input,output}-visitor pass under
valgrind without leaks.
Backports commit db486cc334aafd3dbdaf107388e37fc3d6d3e171 from qemu
Introduce a new crypto/ directory that will (eventually) contain
all the cryptographic related code. This initially defines a
wrapper for initializing gnutls and for computing hashes with
gnutls. The former ensures that gnutls is guaranteed to be
initialized exactly once in QEMU regardless of CLI args. The
block quorum code currently fails to initialize gnutls so it
only works by luck, if VNC server TLS is not requested. The
hash APIs avoids the need to litter the rest of the code with
preprocessor checks and simplifies callers by allocating the
correct amount of memory for the requested hash.
Backports commit ddbb0d09661f5fce21b335ba9aea8202d189b98e from qemu