This will allow some amount of cleanup to happen before
switching the backends over to enum DisasJumpType.
Backports commit 5dc66895b0113034cd37fd5e65911d7959fc26a9 from qemu
Move the MemTxResult type to memattrs.h. We're going to want to
use it in cpu/qom.h, which doesn't want to include all of
memory.h. In practice MemTxResult and MemTxAttrs are pretty
closely linked since both are used for the new-style
read_with_attrs and write_with_attrs callbacks, so memattrs.h
is a reasonable home for this rather than creating a whole
new header file for it.
Backports commit 3114d092b1740f9db9aa559aeb48ee387011e1da from qemu
We are going to share FlatView's between AddressSpace's and per-AS
memory listeners won't suit the purpose anymore so open code
the dispatch tree rendering.
Since there is a good chance that dispatch_listener was the only
listener, this avoids address_space_update_topology_pass() if there is
no registered listeners; this should improve starting time.
This should cause no behavioural change.
Backports commit 1b04a1580917d9e41fd37ca62cbff9b4bf061e96 from qemu
As a precursor to later patches attempt to come up with a more
concrete wording for what each of the common exit cases would be.
Backports commit df0311e634828fdc99ca59352aef68503d631aad from qemu
Rename memory_region_init_rom() to memory_region_init_rom_nomigrate()
and memory_region_init_rom_device() to
memory_region_init_rom_device_nomigrate().
Backports commit b59821a95bd1d7cb4697fd7748725c910582e0e7 from qemu
Rename memory_region_init_ram() to memory_region_init_ram_nomigrate().
This leaves the way clear for us to provide a memory_region_init_ram()
which does handle migration.
Backports commit 1cfe48c1ce219b60a9096312f7a61806fae64ab3 from qemu
The various functions for initializing RAM MemoryRegions do not do
anything to cause the data in the MemoryRegion to be migrated.
Note in their documentation comments that this is the responsibility
of the caller.
(We will shortly add a new function that *does* do this for you.)
Backports commit a5c0234bb2754f5248e67929a34c843dbe039da5 from qemu
Now that we have proper locking after MTTCG patches have landed, we
can revert the commit. This reverts commit
a9353fe897ca2687e5b3385ed39e3db3927a90e0.
Backports commit 406bc339b0505fcfc2ffcbca1f05a3756e338a65 from qemu
Add CONFIG_TCG around TLB-related functions and structure declarations.
Some of these functions are defined in ./accel/tcg/cputlb.c, which will
not be linked in if TCG is disabled, and have no stubs; therefore, their
callers will also be compiled out for --disable-tcg.
Backports commit b11ec7f2e44b285a3967d629b55d1a6970b06787 from qemu
translate-all.c will be disabled if tcg is disabled in the build,
so page_size_init() function and related variables will be moved
to exec.c file.
Backports commit a0be0c585f5dcc4d50a37f6a20d3d625c5ef3a2c from qemu
Commit 1f5c00cfdb8114c ("qom/cpu: move tlb_flush to cpu_common_reset")
moved the call to tlb_flush() from the target-specific reset handlers
into the common code qom/cpu.c file, and protected the call with
"#ifdef CONFIG_SOFTMMU" to avoid that it is called for linux-user
only targets. But since qom/cpu.c is common code, CONFIG_SOFTMMU is
*never* defined here, so the tlb_flush() was simply never executed
anymore. Fix it by introducing a wrapper for tlb_flush() in a file
that is re-compiled for each target, i.e. in translate-all.c.
Backports commit 2cd53943115be5118b5b2d4b80ee0a39c94c4f73 from qemu
We are relying on cpu_env being defined as a global, yet most
targets (i.e. all but arm/a64) have it defined as a local variable.
Luckily all of them use the same "cpu_env" name, but really
compilation shouldn't break if the name of that local variable
changed.
Fix it by using tcg_ctx.tcg_env, which all targets set in their
translate_init function. This change also helps paving the way
for the upcoming "translation loop common to all targets" work.
Backports commit 53f6672bcf57d82b794a2cc3a3469be7d35c8653 from qemu
Allocating an arbitrarily-sized array of tbs results in either
(a) a lot of memory wasted or (b) unnecessary flushes of the code
cache when we run out of TB structs in the array.
An obvious solution would be to just malloc a TB struct when needed,
and keep the TB array as an array of pointers (recall that tb_find_pc()
needs the TB array to run in O(log n)).
Perhaps a better solution, which is implemented in this patch, is to
allocate TB's right before the translated code they describe. This
results in some memory waste due to padding to have code and TBs in
separate cache lines--for instance, I measured 4.7% of padding in the
used portion of code_gen_buffer when booting aarch64 Linux on a
host with 64-byte cache lines. However, it can allow for optimizations
in some host architectures, since TCG backends could safely assume that
the TB and the corresponding translated code are very close to each
other in memory. See this message by rth for a detailed explanation:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg05172.html
Subject: Re: GSoC 2017 Proposal: TCG performance enhancements
Backports commit 6e3b2bfd6af488a896f7936e99ef160f8f37e6f2 from qemu
Instead of exporting goto_ptr directly to TCG frontends, export
tcg_gen_lookup_and_goto_ptr(), which calls goto_ptr with the pointer
returned by the lookup_tb_ptr() helper. This is the only use case
we have for goto_ptr and lookup_tb_ptr, so having this function is
very convenient. Furthermore, it trivially allows us to avoid calling
the lookup helper if goto_ptr is not implemented by the backend.
Backports commit cedbcb01529cb6cf9a2289cdbebbc63f6149fc18 from qemu
This patch converts the old "is_write" bool into IOMMUAccessFlags. The
difference is that "is_write" can only express either read/write, but
sometimes what we really want is "none" here (neither read nor write).
Replay is an good example - during replay, we should not check any RW
permission bits since thats not an actual IO at all.
Backports commit bf55b7afce53718ef96f4e6616da62c0ccac37dd from qemu
MemoryRegionCache did not know about virtio support for IOMMUs (because the
two features were developed at the same time). Revert MemoryRegionCache
to "normal" address_space_* operations for 2.9, as it is simpler than
undoing the virtio patches.
Backports commit 90c4fe5fc517a045e7a7cf2f23472e114042ca29 from qemu
The 'name' parameter to memory_region_init_* had been marked as debug
only, however vmstate_region_ram uses it as a parameter to
qemu_ram_set_idstr to set RAMBlock names and these form part of the
migration stream.
Backports commit e8f5fe2de125a0bfbefbaa6a69af81f4817cb7a0 from qemu
At the moment ram device's memory regions are DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN. It's
incorrect. This memory region is backed by a MMIO area in host, so the
uint64_t data that MemoryRegionOps read from/write to this area should be
host-endian rather than target-endian. Hence, current code does not work
when target and host endianness are different which is the most common case
on PPC64. To fix it, this introduces DEVICE_HOST_ENDIAN for the ram device.
This has been tested on PPC64 BE/LE host/guest in all possible combinations
including TCG.
Backports commit c99a29e702528698c0ce2590f06ca7ff239f7c39 from qemu
While the vargs approach was flexible the original MTTCG ended up
having munge the bits to a bitmap so the data could be used in
deferred work helpers. Instead of hiding that in cputlb we push the
change to the API to make it take a bitmap of MMU indexes instead.
For ARM some the resulting flushes end up being quite long so to aid
readability I've tended to move the index shifting to a new line so
all the bits being or-ed together line up nicely, for example:
tlb_flush_page_by_mmuidx(other_cs, pageaddr,
(1 << ARMMMUIdx_S1SE1) |
(1 << ARMMMUIdx_S1SE0));
Backports commit 0336cbf8532935d8e23c2aabf3e2ce2c0697b6ac from qemu
We have never has the concept of global TLB entries which would avoid
the flush so we never actually use this flag. Drop it and make clear
that tlb_flush is the sledge-hammer it has always been.
Backports commit d10eb08f5d8389c814b554d01aa2882ac58221bf from qemu
This patch introduces a helper to query the iotlb entry for a
possible iova. This will be used by later device IOTLB API to enable
the capability for a dataplane (e.g vhost) to query the IOTLB.
Backports commit 052c8fa9983f553fdfa0d61034774070dd639c2b from qemu
Device models often have to perform multiple access to a single
memory region that is known in advance, but would to use "DMA-style"
functions instead of address_space_map/unmap. This can happen
for example when the data has to undergo endianness conversion.
Introduce a new data structure to cache the result of
address_space_translate without forcing usage of a host address
like address_space_map does.
Backports commit 1f4e496e1fc2eb6c8bf377a0f9695930c380bfd3 from qemu
Templatize the address_space_* and *_phys functions, so that we can add
similar functions in the next patch that work with a lightweight,
cache-like version of address_space_map/unmap.
Backports commit 0ce265ffef87f19f4dd1ff0663e09a63d66ae408 from qemu
When icount is active, tb_add_jump is surprisingly called with an
out of bounds basic block index. I have no idea how that can work,
but it does not seem like a good idea. Clear *last_tb for all
TB_EXIT_ICOUNT_EXPIRED cases, even when all you have to do is
refill icount_extra.
Backports commit d8dea6fbcbed177ca5d23ab77b3834a9437f0e88 from qemu
In the user emulation code path, tlb_vaddr_to_host erronesously passed
vaddr as the guest address to be translated, instead of addr, the parameter
which actually contained the guest address.
This resulted in incorrect addresses being used when emulating block copy
(mvc/mvpg) and block clear (xc) instructions for the s390x target.
Backports commit c2a85316902e67530da9d6548139fcce73c0cac6 from qemu
softmmu requires more functions to be thread-safe, because translation
blocks can be invalidated from e.g. notdirty callbacks. Probably the
same holds for user-mode emulation, it's just that no one has ever
tried to produce a coherent locking there.
This patch will guide the introduction of more tb_lock and tb_unlock
calls for system emulation.
Note that after this patch some (most) of the mentioned functions are
still called outside tb_lock/tb_unlock. The next one will rectify this.
Backports commit 7d7500d99895f888f97397ef32bb536bb0df3b74 from qemu
This adds asserts to check the locking on the various translation
engines structures. There are two sets of structures that are protected
by locks.
The first the l1map and PageDesc structures used to track which
translation blocks are associated with which physical addresses. In
user-mode this is covered by the mmap_lock.
The second case are TB context related structures which are protected by
tb_lock which is also user-mode only.
Currently the asserts do nothing in SoftMMU mode but this will change
for MTTCG.
Backports commit 301e40ed8005306c009978be295ed9a4b725178b from qemu
Probe for whether the specified guest write access is permitted.
If it is not permitted then an exception will be taken in the same
way as if this were a real write access (and we will not return).
Otherwise the function will return, and there will be a valid
entry in the TLB for this access.
Backports commit 3b4afc9e75ab1a95f33e41f462921093f8a109c4 from qemu
When we cannot emulate an atomic operation within a parallel
context, this exception allows us to stop the world and try
again in a serial context.
Backports commit fdbc2b5722f6092e47181a947c90fd4bdcc1c121 from qemu
Also backports parts of commit 02d57ea115b7669f588371c86484a2e8ebc369be
Support target CPUs having a page size which isn't knownn
at compile time. To use this, the CPU implementation should:
* define TARGET_PAGE_BITS_VARY
* not define TARGET_PAGE_BITS
* define TARGET_PAGE_BITS_MIN to the smallest value it
might possibly want for TARGET_PAGE_BITS
* call set_preferred_target_page_bits() in its realize
function to indicate the actual preferred target page
size for the CPU (and report any error from it)
In CONFIG_USER_ONLY, the CPU implementation should continue
to define TARGET_PAGE_BITS appropriately for the guest
OS page size.
Machines which want to take advantage of having the page
size something larger than TARGET_PAGE_BITS_MIN must
set the MachineClass minimum_page_bits field to a value
which they guarantee will be no greater than the preferred
page size for any CPU they create.
Note that changing the target page size by setting
minimum_page_bits is a migration compatibility break
for that machine.
For debugging purposes, attempts to use TARGET_PAGE_SIZE
before it has been finally confirmed will assert.
Backports commit 20bccb82ff3ea09bcb7c4ee226d3160cab15f7da from qemu
This speeds up MEMORY_LISTENER_CALL noticeably. Right now,
with many PCI devices you have N regions added to M AddressSpaces
(M = # PCI devices with bus-master enabled) and each call looks
up the whole listener list, with at least M listeners in it.
Because most of the regions in N are BARs, which are also roughly
proportional to M, the whole thing is O(M^3). This changes it
to O(M^2), which is the best we can do without rewriting the
whole thing.
Backports commit 9a54635dcb51a3fcf7507af630168f514a8cd4e7 from qemu
The return address argument to the softmmu template helpers was
confused. In the legacy case, we wanted to indicate that there
is no return address, and so passed in NULL. However, we then
immediately subtracted GETPC_ADJ from NULL, resulting in a non-zero
value, indicating the presence of an (invalid) return address.
Push the GETPC_ADJ subtraction down to the only point it's required:
immediately before use within cpu_restore_state_from_tb, after all
NULL pointer checks have been completed.
This makes GETPC and GETRA identical. Remove GETRA as the lesser
used macro, replacing all uses with GETPC.
Backports commit 01ecaf438b1eb46abe23392c8ce5b7628b0c8cf5 from qemu
When invalidating a translation block, set an invalid flag into the
TranslationBlock structure first. It is also necessary to check whether
the target TB is still valid after acquiring 'tb_lock' but before calling
tb_add_jump() since TB lookup is to be performed out of 'tb_lock' in
future. Note that we don't have to check 'last_tb'; an already invalidated
TB will not be executed anyway and it is thus safe to patch it.
Backports commit 6d21e4208f382dd8ca1f7995a6dd9ea7ca281163 from qemu
With a vfio assigned device we lay down a base MemoryRegion registered
as an IO region, giving us read & write accessors. If the region
supports mmap, we lay down a higher priority sub-region MemoryRegion
on top of the base layer initialized as a RAM device pointer to the
mmap. Finally, if we have any quirks for the device (ie. address
ranges that need additional virtualization support), we put another IO
sub-region on top of the mmap MemoryRegion. When this is flattened,
we now potentially have sub-page mmap MemoryRegions exposed which
cannot be directly mapped through KVM.
This is as expected, but a subtle detail of this is that we end up
with two different access mechanisms through QEMU. If we disable the
mmap MemoryRegion, we make use of the IO MemoryRegion and service
accesses using pread and pwrite to the vfio device file descriptor.
If the mmap MemoryRegion is enabled and results in one of these
sub-page gaps, QEMU handles the access as RAM, using memcpy to the
mmap. Using either pread/pwrite or the mmap directly should be
correct, but using memcpy causes us problems. I expect that not only
does memcpy not necessarily honor the original width and alignment in
performing a copy, but it potentially also uses processor instructions
not intended for MMIO spaces. It turns out that this has been a
problem for Realtek NIC assignment, which has such a quirk that
creates a sub-page mmap MemoryRegion access.
To resolve this, we disable memory_access_is_direct() for ram_device
regions since QEMU assumes that it can use memcpy for those regions.
Instead we access through MemoryRegionOps, which replaces the memcpy
with simple de-references of standard sizes to the host memory.
With this patch we attempt to provide unrestricted access to the RAM
device, allowing byte through qword access as well as unaligned
access. The assumption here is that accesses initiated by the VM are
driven by a device specific driver, which knows the device
capabilities. If unaligned accesses are not supported by the device,
we don't want them to work in a VM by performing multiple aligned
accesses to compose the unaligned access. A down-side of this
philosophy is that the xp command from the monitor attempts to use
the largest available access weidth, unaware of the underlying
device. Using memcpy had this same restriction, but at least now an
operator can dump individual registers, even if blocks of device
memory may result in access widths beyond the capabilities of a
given device (RTL NICs only support up to dword).
Backports commit 1b16ded6a512809f99c133a97f19026fe612b2de from qemu
Setting skip_dump on a MemoryRegion allows us to modify one specific
code path, but the restriction we're trying to address encompasses
more than that. If we have a RAM MemoryRegion backed by a physical
device, it not only restricts our ability to dump that region, but
also affects how we should manipulate it. Here we recognize that
MemoryRegions do not change to sometimes allow dumps and other times
not, so we replace setting the skip_dump flag with a new initializer
so that we know exactly the type of region to which we're applying
this behavior.
Backports commit ca83f87a66d19fdaabf23d4f5ebb49396fe232c1 from qemu
Instead of using -1 as end of chain, use 0, and link through the 0
entry as a fully circular double-linked list.
Backports commit dcb8e75870e2de199db853697f8839cb603beefe from qemu
Header guard symbols should match their file name to make guard
collisions less likely. Offenders found with
scripts/clean-header-guards.pl -vn.
Cleaned up with scripts/clean-header-guards.pl, followed by some
renaming of new guard symbols picked by the script to better ones.
Backports commit 121d07125bb6d7079c7ebafdd3efe8c3a01cc440 from qemu
Tracked down with an ugly, brittle and probably buggy Perl script.
Also move includes converted to <...> up so they get included before
ours where that's obviously okay.
Backports commit a9c94277f07d19d3eb14f199c3e93491aa3eae0e from qemu
There are functions tlb_fill(), cpu_unaligned_access() and
do_unaligned_access() that are called with access type and mmu index
arguments. But these arguments are named 'is_write' and 'is_user' in their
declarations. The patches fix the arguments to avoid a confusion.
Backports commit b35399bb4e9968296a12303b00f9f2066470e987 from qemu
Some architectures (e.g. ARMv8) need the address which is aligned
to a size more than the size of the memory access.
To support such check it's enough the current costless alignment
check implementation in QEMU, but we need to support
an alignment size specifying.
Backports commit 1f00b27f17518a1bcb4cedca49eaec96a4d560bd from qemu
It doesn't make sense to pass a NULL ops argument to
memory_region_init_rom_device(), because the effect will
be that if the guest tries to write to the memory region
then QEMU will segfault. Catch the bug earlier by sanity
checking the arguments to this function, and remove the
misleading documentation that suggests that passing NULL
might be sensible.
Backports commit 39e0b03dec518254fabd2acff29548d3f1d2b754 from qemu
Provide a new helper function memory_region_init_rom() for memory
regions which are read-only (and unlike those created by
memory_region_init_rom_device() don't have special behaviour
for writes). This has the same behaviour as calling
memory_region_init_ram() and then memory_region_set_readonly()
(which is what we do today in boards with pure ROMs) but is a
more easily discoverable API for the purpose.
Backports commit a1777f7f6462c66e1ee6e98f0d5c431bfe988aa5 from qemu
The IOMMU driver may change behavior depending on whether a notifier
client is present. In the case of POWER, this represents a change in
the visibility of the IOTLB, for other drivers such as intel-iommu and
future AMD-Vi emulation, notifier support is not yet enabled and this
provides the opportunity to flag that incompatibility.
Backports commit d22d8956b185c002b50a4d0883aff61f857347ef from qemu
Every IOMMU has some granularity which MemoryRegionIOMMUOps::translate
uses when translating, however this information is not available outside
the translate context for various checks.
This adds a get_min_page_size callback to MemoryRegionIOMMUOps and
a wrapper for it so IOMMU users (such as VFIO) can know the minimum
actual page size supported by an IOMMU.
As IOMMU MR represents a guest IOMMU, this uses TARGET_PAGE_SIZE
as fallback.
This removes vfio_container_granularity() and uses new helper in
memory_region_iommu_replay() when replaying IOMMU mappings on added
IOMMU memory region.
Backports the relevant parts of commit f682e9c244af7166225f4a50cc18ff296bb9d43e from qemu
For some workloads such as arm bootup, tb_phys_hash is performance-critical.
The is due to the high frequency of accesses to the hash table, originated
by (frequent) TLB flushes that wipe out the cpu-private tb_jmp_cache's.
More info:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-03/msg05098.html
To dig further into this I modified an arm image booting debian jessie to
immediately shut down after boot. Analysis revealed that quite a bit of time
is unnecessarily spent in tb_phys_hash: the cause is poor hashing that
results in very uneven loading of chains in the hash table's buckets;
the longest observed chain had ~550 elements.
The appended addresses this with two changes:
1) Use xxhash as the hash table's hash function. xxhash is a fast,
high-quality hashing function.
2) Feed the hashing function with not just tb_phys, but also pc and flags.
This improves performance over using just tb_phys for hashing, since that
resulted in some hash buckets having many TB's, while others getting very few;
with these changes, the longest observed chain on a single hash bucket is
brought down from ~550 to ~40.
Tests show that the other element checked for in tb_find_physical,
cs_base, is always a match when tb_phys+pc+flags are a match,
so hashing cs_base is wasteful. It could be that this is an ARM-only
thing, though. UPDATE:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:41:43 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> The cs_base field is only used by i386 (in 16-bit modes), and sparc (for a TB
> consisting of only a delay slot).
> It may well still turn out to be reasonable to ignore cs_base for hashing.
BTW, after this change the hash table should not be called "tb_hash_phys"
anymore; this is addressed later in this series.
This change gives consistent bootup time improvements. I tested two
host machines:
- Intel Xeon E5-2690: 11.6% less time
- Intel i7-4790K: 19.2% less time
Increasing the number of hash buckets yields further improvements. However,
using a larger, fixed number of buckets can degrade performance for other
workloads that do not translate as many blocks (600K+ for debian-jessie arm
bootup). This is dealt with later in this series.
Backports commit 42bd32287f3a18d823f2258b813824a39ed7c6d9 from qemu
This will be used by upcoming changes for hashing the tb hash.
Add this into a separate file to include the copyright notice from
xxhash.
Backports commit dc8b295d05ec35a8c032f9abca421772347ba5d4 from qemu
The function cpu_resume_from_signal() is now always called with a
NULL puc argument, and is rather misnamed since it is never called
from a signal handler. It is essentially forcing an exit to the
top level cpu loop but without raising any exception, so rename
it to cpu_loop_exit_noexc() and drop the useless unused argument.
Backports commit 6886b98036a8f8f5bce8b10756ce080084cef11b from qemu
The WORDS_ALIGNED #define is not used anywhere, and hasn't been since
2013 when commit 612d590ebc6cef rewrote the various ld<type>_<endian>_p
functions to not use it. Remove the #define and the comment describing it.
Also remove the line in the comment about TARGET_WORDS_ALIGNED, since
it has never actually existed.
Backports commit 0d5c21f2b3bf1e0b562a2c74e353d2e03f2f50ef from qemu
Let users of qemu_get_ram_ptr and qemu_ram_ptr_length pass in an
address that is relative to the MemoryRegion. This basically means
what address_space_translate returns.
Because the semantics of the second parameter change, rename the
function to qemu_map_ram_ptr.
Backports commit 0878d0e11ba8013dd759c6921cbf05ba6a41bd71 from qemu
Move the old qemu_ram_addr_from_host to memory_region_from_host and
make it return an offset within the region. For qemu_ram_addr_from_host
return the ram_addr_t directly, similar to what it was before
commit 1b5ec23 ("memory: return MemoryRegion from qemu_ram_addr_from_host",
2013-07-04).
Backports commit 07bdaa4196b51bc7ffa7c3f74e9e4a9dc8a7966a from qemu
Of the two callers, one does not use it, and the other can compute
it itself based on the other output argument (offset) and the RAMBlock.
Backports commit f615f39616c4fd1a3a3b078af8d75bb4be6390de from qemu
Remove direct uses of ram_addr_t and optimize memory_region_{get,set}_fd
now that a MemoryRegion knows its RAMBlock directly.
Backports commit 4ff87573df3606856a92c14eef3393a63d736d11 from qemu
The collision check does nothing and hasn't been used. Remove the
variable together with related code.
Backports commit b61359781958759317ee6fd1a45b59be0b7dbbe1 from qemu
On the one hand, we have already qemu_get_ram_block() whose function
is similar. On the other hand, we can directly use mr->ram_block but
searching RAMblock by ram_addr which is a kind of waste.
Backports commit fa53a0e53efdc7002497ea4a76aacf6cceb170ef from qemu
pio_addr_t is almost unused, because these days I/O ports are simply
accessed through the address space. cpu_{in,out}[bwl] themselves are
almost unused; monitor.c and xen-hvm.c could use address_space_read/write
directly, since they have an integer size at hand. This leaves qtest as
the only user of those functions.
On the other hand even portio_* functions use this type; the only
interesting use of pio_addr_t thus is include/hw/sysbus.h. I guess I
could move it there, but I don't see much benefit in that either. Using
uint32_t is enough and avoids the need to include ioport.h everywhere.
Backports commit 89a80e7400f7225d9401b35ef32454b4ab29dc67 from qemu
exec-all.h contains TCG-specific definitions. It is not needed outside
TCG-specific files such as translate.c, exec.c or *helper.c.
One generic function had snuck into include/exec/exec-all.h; move it to
include/qom/cpu.h.
Backports commit 63c915526d6a54a95919ebece83fa9ca631b2508 from qemu
TCG backends do not need most of exec-all.h; extract what they actually
need to a separate file or move it directly to tcg.h. The next patch
will stop including exec-all.h from everywhere.
Backports commit 00f6da6a1a5d1ce085334eccbb50ec899ceed513 from qemu
Disentangle cpu-common.h and memory.h from NEED_CPU_H. Prototypes are
not defined for !NEED_CPU_H, so remove them from poison.h too. Only
macros need poisoning.
Backports commit a7d6039cb35592683ecc56d2b37817da2d2f8b00 from qemu
'tb_invalidated_flag' was meant to catch two events:
* some TB has been invalidated by tb_phys_invalidate();
* the whole translation buffer has been flushed by tb_flush().
Then it was checked:
* in cpu_exec() to ensure that the last executed TB can be safely
linked to directly call the next one;
* in cpu_exec_nocache() to decide if the original TB should be provided
for further possible invalidation along with the temporarily
generated TB.
It is always safe to patch an invalidated TB since it is not going to be
used anyway. It is also safe to call tb_phys_invalidate() for an already
invalidated TB. Thus, setting this flag in tb_phys_invalidate() is
simply unnecessary. Moreover, it can prevent from pretty proper linking
of TBs, if any arbitrary TB has been invalidated. So just don't touch it
in tb_phys_invalidate().
If this flag is only used to catch whether tb_flush() has been called
then rename it to 'tb_flushed'. Declare it as 'bool' and stick to using
only 'true' and 'false' to set its value. Also, instead of setting it in
tb_gen_code(), just after tb_flush() has been called, do it right inside
of tb_flush().
In cpu_exec(), this flag is used to track if tb_flush() has been called
and have made 'next_tb' (a reference to the last executed TB) invalid
for linking it to directly call the next TB. tb_flush() can be called
during the CPU execution loop from tb_gen_code(), during TB execution or
by another thread while 'tb_lock' is released. Catch for translation
buffer flush reliably by resetting this flag once before first TB lookup
and each time we find it set before trying to add a direct jump. Don't
touch in in tb_find_physical().
Each vCPU has its own execution loop in multithreaded mode and thus
should have its own copy of the flag to be able to reset it with its own
'next_tb' and don't affect any other vCPU execution thread. So make this
flag per-vCPU and move it to CPUState.
In cpu_exec_nocache(), we only need to check if tb_flush() has been
called from tb_gen_code() called by cpu_exec_nocache() itself. To do
this reliably, preserve the old value of the flag, reset it before
calling tb_gen_code(), check afterwards, and combine the saved value
back to the flag.
This patch is based on the patch "tcg: move tb_invalidated_flag to
CPUState" from Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>.
Backports commit 6f789be56d3f38e9214dafcfab3bf9be7191f370 from qemu
The check is to make sure that another thread hasn't already done the
same while we were outside of tb_lock. Mention this in a comment.
Backports commit 9962c478b153a18fe88a6509fe58cd178aff8abc from qemu
These fields do not contain pure pointers to a TranslationBlock
structure. So uintptr_t is the most appropriate type for them.
Also put some asserts to assure that the two least significant bits of
the pointer are always zero before assigning it to jmp_list_first.
Backports commit c37e6d7e3589ecb96914faa21025ad7ba6654aea from qemu
Briefly describe in a comment how direct block chaining is done. It
should help in understanding of the following data fields.
Rename some fields in TranslationBlock and TCGContext structures to
better reflect their purpose (dropping excessive 'tb_' prefix in
TranslationBlock but keeping it in TCGContext):
tb_next_offset => jmp_reset_offset
tb_jmp_offset => jmp_insn_offset
tb_next => jmp_target_addr
jmp_next => jmp_list_next
jmp_first => jmp_list_first
Avoid using a magic constant as an invalid offset which is used to
indicate that there's no n-th jump generated.
Backports commit f309101c26b59641fc1aa8fb2a98a5441cdaea03 from qemu
Ensure direct jump patching in ARM is atomic by using
atomic_read()/atomic_set() for code patching.
Backports commit 7d14e0e2d661479985197203589c38840e1066df from qemu
Ensure direct jump patching in s390 is atomic by:
* naturally aligning a location of direct jump address;
* using atomic_read()/atomic_set() for code patching.
Backports commit ed3d51ecd7fe248d3959e469d53890ac9ffe0cd2 from qemu
Ensure direct jump patching in i386 is atomic by:
* naturally aligning a location of direct jump address;
* using atomic_read()/atomic_set() for code patching.
Backports commit 0d07abf05e98903c7faf204a9a90f7d45b7554dc from qemu
We are inconsistent with the type of tb->flags: usage varies loosely
between int and uint64_t. Settle to uint32_t everywhere, which is
superior to both: at least one target (aarch64) uses the most significant
bit in the u32, and uint64_t is wasteful.
Compile-tested for all targets.
Backports commit 89fee74a0f066dfd73830a7b5fa137e87888c870 from qemu
Use tcg_set_insn_param() instead of directly accessing internal
tcg data structures to update an insn param.
Backports commit 25caa94c4a26daaab1e65c6d887e2972aeb5749e from qemu
Move the architecture agnostic function prototypes for exec.c out of
cputlb.h to exec-all.h. This allows hiding of the arch specific
cputlb.h from exec.c which should be getting close to having no
architecture specifics. Prepares support for multi-arch, which will have
a minimal cpu.h that services exec.c but not cputlb.h.
Backports commit dfccc7602374c9fd3b083208b552d62daa244811 from qemu
To prepare for multi-arch, cputlb.c should only have awareness of one
single architecture. This means it should not have access to the full
CPU lists which may be heterogeneous. Instead, push the CPU_LOOP() up
to the one and only caller in exec.c.
Backports commit 9a13565d52bfd321934fb44ee004bbaf5f5913a8 from qemu
The last two arguments to these functions are the last and first bit to
check relative to the base. The code was using incorrectly the first
bit and the number of bits. Fix this in cpu_physical_memory_get_dirty
and cpu_physical_memory_all_dirty. This requires a few changes in the
iteration; change the code in cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_range to
match.
Backports commit 88c73d16ad1b6c22a2ab082064d0d521f756296a from qemu
Although accesses to ram_list.dirty_memory[] use atomics so multiple
threads can safely dirty the bitmap, the data structure is not fully
thread-safe yet.
This patch handles the RAM hotplug case where ram_list.dirty_memory[] is
grown. ram_list.dirty_memory[] is change from a regular bitmap to an
RCU array of pointers to fixed-size bitmap blocks. Threads can continue
accessing bitmap blocks while the array is being extended. See the
comments in the code for an in-depth explanation of struct
DirtyMemoryBlocks.
I have tested that live migration with virtio-blk dataplane works.
Backports commit 5b82b703b69acc67b78b98a5efc897a3912719eb from qemu
qemu-log: dfilter-ise exec, out_asm, op and opt_op
This ensures the code generation debug code will honour -dfilter if set.
For the "exec" tracing I've added a new inline macro for efficiency's
sake.
Backports commit d977e1c2dbc9e63454b2000f91954d02543bf43b from qemu
Improve the TB execution logging so that it is easier to identify
what is happening from trace logs:
* move the "Trace" logging of executed TBs into cpu_tb_exec()
so that it is emitted if and only if we actually execute a TB,
and for consistency for the CPU state logging
* log when we link two TBs together via tb_add_jump()
* log when cpu_tb_exec() returns early from a chain of TBs
The new style logging looks like this:
Trace 0x7fb7cc822ca0 [ffffffc0000dce00]
Linking TBs 0x7fb7cc822ca0 [ffffffc0000dce00] index 0 -> 0x7fb7cc823110 [ffffffc0000dce10]
Trace 0x7fb7cc823110 [ffffffc0000dce10]
Trace 0x7fb7cc823420 [ffffffc000302688]
Trace 0x7fb7cc8234a0 [ffffffc000302698]
Trace 0x7fb7cc823520 [ffffffc0003026a4]
Trace 0x7fb7cc823560 [ffffffc0000dce44]
Linking TBs 0x7fb7cc823560 [ffffffc0000dce44] index 1 -> 0x7fb7cc8235d0 [ffffffc0000dce70]
Trace 0x7fb7cc8235d0 [ffffffc0000dce70]
Stopped execution of TB chain before 0x7fb7cc8235d0 [ffffffc0000dce70]
Trace 0x7fb7cc8235d0 [ffffffc0000dce70]
Trace 0x7fb7cc822fd0 [ffffffc0000dd52c]
Backports commit 1a830635229e14c403600167823ea6b3b79d3097 from qemu
Just specifying ops = NULL in some cases can be more convenient than having
two functions.
Backports commit 6d6d2abf2c2e52c0f404d0a31a963e945b0cc7ad from qemu
All references to mr->ram_addr are replaced by
memory_region_get_ram_addr(mr) (except for a few assertions that are
replaced with mr->ram_block).
Backports commit 8e41fb63c5bf29ecabe0cee1239bf6230f19978a from qemu
Previously we return RAMBlock.offset; now return the pointer to the
whole structure.
ram_block_add returns void now, error is completely passed with errp.
Backports commit 528f46af6ecd1e300db18684969104d4067b867b from qemu
these two functions consume too much cpu overhead to
find the RAMBlock by ram address.
After this patch, we can pass the RAMBlock pointer
to them so that they don't need to find the RAMBlock
anymore most of the time. We can get better performance
in address translation processing.
Backports commit 3655cb9c7375a595a8051ec677c515b24d5c1fe6 from qemu
Each RAM memory region has a unique corresponding RAMBlock.
In the current realization, the memory region only stored
the ram_addr which means the offset of RAM address space,
We need to qurey the global ram.list to find the ram block
by ram_addr if we want to get the ram block, which is very
expensive.
Now, we store the RAMBlock pointer into memory region
structure. So, if we know the mr, we can easily get the
RAMBlock.
Backports commit 58eaa2174e99d9a05172d03fd2799ab8fd9e6f60 from qemu
This condition is true in the common case, so we can cut out the body of
the function. In addition, this makes it easier for the compiler to do
at least partial inlining, even if it decides that fully inlining the
function is unreasonable.
Backports commit 8bafcb21643a39a5b29109f8bd5ee5a6f0f6850b from qemu
check the return value of the function it calls and error if it's non-0
Fixup qemu_rdma_init_one_block that is the only current caller,
and rdma_add_block the only function it calls using it.
Pass the name of the ramblock to the function; helps in debugging.
Backports commit e3807054e20fb3b94d18cb751c437ee2f43b6fac from qemu
This will either create a new AS or return a pointer to an
already existing equivalent one, if we have already created
an AS for the specified root memory region.
The motivation is to reuse address spaces as much as possible.
It's going to be quite common that bus masters out in device land
have pointers to the same memory region for their mastering yet
each will need to create its own address space. Let the memory
API implement sharing for them.
Aside from the perf optimisations, this should reduce the amount
of redundant output on info mtree as well.
Thee returned value will be malloced, but the malloc will be
automatically freed when the AS runs out of refs.
Backports commit f0c02d15b57da6f5463e3768aa0cfeedccf4b8f4 from qemu
Add a function to return the AddressSpace for a CPU based on
its numerical index. (Callers outside exec.c don't have access
to the CPUAddressSpace struct so can't just fish it out of the
CPUState struct directly.)
Backports commit 651a5bc03705102de519ebf079a40ecc1da991db from qemu
Pass the MemTxAttrs for the memory access to iotlb_to_region(); this
allows it to determine the correct AddressSpace to use for the lookup.
Backports commit a54c87b68a0410d0cf6f8b84e42074a5cf463732 from qemu
When looking up the MemoryRegionSection for the new TLB entry in
tlb_set_page_with_attrs(), use cpu_asidx_from_attrs() to determine
the correct address space index for the lookup, and pass it into
address_space_translate_for_iotlb().
Backports commit d7898cda81b6efa6b2d7a749882695cdcf280eaa from qemu
Allow multiple calls to cpu_address_space_init(); each
call adds an entry to the cpu->ases array at the specified
index. It is up to the target-specific CPU code to actually use
these extra address spaces.
Since this multiple AddressSpace support won't work with
KVM, add an assertion to avoid confusing failures.
Backports commit 12ebc9a76dd7702aef0a3618717a826c19c34ef4 from qemu
Rather than setting cpu->as unconditionally in cpu_exec_init
(and then having target-i386 override this later), don't set
it until the first call to cpu_address_space_init.
This requires us to initialise the address space for
both TCG and KVM (KVM doesn't need the AS listener but
it does require cpu->as to be set).
For target CPUs which don't set up any address spaces (currently
everything except i386), add the default address_space_memory
in qemu_init_vcpu().
Backports commit 56943e8cc14b7eeeab67d1942fa5d8bcafe3e53f from qemu
memcpy can take a large amount of time for small reads and writes.
Handle the common case of reading s/g descriptors from memory (there
is no corresponding "write" case that is as common, because writes
often use address_space_st* functions) by inlining the relevant
parts of address_space_read into the caller.
Backports commit 3cc8f884996584630734a90c9b3c535af81e3c92 from qemu
We want to inline the case where there is only one iteration, because
then the compiler can also inline the memcpy. As a start, extract
everything after the first address_space_translate call.
Backports commit a203ac702e0720135fac8b1f2061d119814c1798 from qemu
For the common case of DMA into non-hotplugged RAM, it is unnecessary
but expensive to do object_ref/unref. Add back an owner field to
MemoryRegion, so that these memory regions can skip the reference
counting.
Backports commit 612263cf33062f7441a5d0e3b37c65991fdc3210 from qemu
Order fields so that all fields accessed during a RAM read/write fit in
the same cache line.
Backports commit a676854f3447019c7c4b005ab6aece905fccfddd from qemu
Replace qemu_ram_free_from_ptr() with qemu_ram_free().
The only difference between qemu_ram_free_from_ptr() and
qemu_ram_free() is that g_free_rcu() is used instead of
call_rcu(reclaim_ramblock). We can safely replace it because:
* RAM blocks allocated by qemu_ram_alloc_from_ptr() always have
RAM_PREALLOC set;
* reclaim_ramblock(block) will do nothing except g_free(block)
if RAM_PREALLOC is set at block->flags.
Backports commit a29ac16632aec6065c72985b9f7eeb1ca6fbef4a from qemu
Add a function to find a RAMBlock by name; use it in two
of the places that already open code that loop; we've
got another use later in postcopy.
Backports commit e3dd74934f2d2c8c67083995928ff68e8c1d0030 from qemu
Postcopy sends RAMBlock names and offsets over the wire (since it can't
rely on the order of ramaddr being the same), and it starts out with
HVA fault addresses from the kernel.
qemu_ram_block_from_host translates a HVA into a RAMBlock, an offset
in the RAMBlock and the global ram_addr_t value.
Rewrite qemu_ram_addr_from_host to use qemu_ram_block_from_host.
Provide qemu_ram_get_idstr since its the actual name text sent on the
wire.
Backports commit 422148d3e56c3c9a07c0cf36c1e0a0b76f09c357 from qemu
This makes ROM blocks resizeable. This infrastructure is required for other
functionality we have queued.
Backports commit aaf03019175949eda5087329448b8a0033b89479 from qemu
At present, the "average" guestimate of TB size is way too small, leading
to many unused entries in the pre-allocated TB array. For a guest with 1GB
ram, we're currently allocating 256MB for the array.
Survey arm, alpha, aarch64, ppc, sparc, i686, x86_64 guests running on
x86_64 and ppc64 hosts and select a new average. The size of the array
drops to 81MB with no more flushing than before.
Backports commit 126d89e8cdfa3be15d51f76906eaccbcd0023f98 from qemu
We currently pre-compute an worst case code size for any TB, which
works out to be 122kB. Since the average TB size is near 1kB, this
wastes quite a lot of storage.
Instead, check for overflow in between generating code for each opcode.
The overhead of the check isn't measurable and wastage is minimized.
Backports commit b125f9dc7bd68cd4c57189db4da83b0620b28a72 from qemu
It is no longer used, so tidy up everything reached by it.
This includes the gen_opc_* arrays, the search_pc parameter
and the inline gen_intermediate_code_internal functions.
Backports commit 4e5e1215156662b2b153255c49d4640d82c5568b from qemu
In this case, QEMU might longjmp out of cpu-exec.c and miss the final
cleanup in cpu_exec_nocache. Do this manually through a new compile
flag.
Backports commit d8a499f17ee5f05407874f29f69f0e3e3198a853 from qemu
The gen_opc_* arrays are already redundant with the data stored in
the insn_start arguments. Transition restore_state_to_opc to use
data from the latter.
Backports commit bad729e272387de7dbfa3ec4319036552fc6c107 from qemu
Change tlb_set_dirty() to accept a CPU instead of an env pointer. This
allows for removal of another CPUArchState usage from prototypes that
need to be QOMified.
Backports commit bcae01e468d961ad9afaf4148329147e4be209ab from qemu
There is some iffy lock hierarchy going on in translate-all.c. To
fix it, we need to take the mmap_lock in cpu-exec.c. Make the
functions globally available.
Backports commit 8fd19e6cfd5b6cdf028c6ac2ff4157ed831ea3a6 from qemu
This patch introduces loop exit function, which also
restores guest CPU state according to the value of host
program counter.
Backports commit 1c3c8af1fb40a481c07749e0448644d9b7700415 from qemu
Now that the cpu_ld/st_* function directly call helper_ret_ld/st, we can
drop the old helper_ld/st functions.
Backports commit b8611499b940b1b4db67aa985e3a844437bcbf00 from qemu
This patch introduces several helpers to pass return address
which points to the TB. Correct return address allows correct
restoring of the guest PC and icount. These functions should be used when
helpers embedded into TB invoke memory operations.
Backports commit 282dffc8a4bfe8724548cabb8a26698bde0a6e18 from qemu
This is set to true when the index is for an instruction fetch
translation.
The core get_page_addr_code() sets it, as do the SOFTMMU_CODE_ACCESS
acessors.
All targets ignore it for now, and all other callers pass "false".
This will allow targets who wish to split the mmu index between
instruction and data accesses to do so. A subsequent patch will
do just that for PowerPC.
Backports commit 97ed5ccdee95f0b98bedc601ff979e368583472c from qemu
Guest CPU TLB maintenance operations may be sufficiently
specialized to only need to flush TLB entries corresponding
to a particular MMU index. Implement cputlb functions for
this, to avoid the inefficiency of flushing TLB entries
which we don't need to.
Backports commit d7a74a9d4a68e27b3a8ceda17bb95cb0a23d8e4d from qemu
There was a complicated subtractive arithmetic for determining the
padding on the CPUTLBEntry structure. Simplify this with a union.
Backports commit b4a4b8d0e0767c85946fd8fc404643bf5766351a from qemu
The callers (most of them in target-foo/cpu.c) to this function all
have the cpu pointer handy. Just pass it to avoid an ENV_GET_CPU() from
core code (in exec.c).
Backports commit 4bad9e392e788a218967167a38ce2ae7a32a6231 from qemu
All of the core-code usages of this API have the cpu pointer handy so
pass it in. There are only 3 architecture specific usages (2 of which
are commented out) which can just use ENV_GET_CPU() locally to get the
cpu pointer. The reduces core code usage of the CPU env, which brings
us closer to common-obj'ing these core files.
Backports commit bbd77c180d7ff1b04a7661bb878939b2e1d23798 from qemu
Currently the "host" page size alignment API is really aligning to both
host and target page sizes. There is the qemu_real_page_size which can
be used for the actual host page size but it's missing a mask and ALIGN
macro as provided for qemu_page_size. Complete the API. This allows
system level code that cares about the host page size to use a
consistent alignment interface without having to un-needingly align to
the target page size. This also reduces system level code dependency
on the cpu specific TARGET_PAGE_SIZE.
Backports commit 4e51361d79289aee2985dfed472f8d87bd53a8df from qemu
Including qemu-common.h from other header files is generally a bad
idea, because it means it's very easy to end up with a circular
dependency. For instance, if we wanted to include memory.h from
qom/cpu.h we'd end up with this loop:
memory.h -> qemu-common.h -> cpu.h -> cpu-qom.h -> qom/cpu.h -> memory.h
Remove the include from memory.h. This requires us to fix up a few
other files which were inadvertently getting declarations indirectly
through memory.h.
The biggest change is splitting the fprintf_function typedef out
into its own header so other headers can get at it without having
to include qemu-common.h.
Backports commit fba0a593b2809ecdda68650952cf3d3332ac1990 from qemu
This introduces the memory region property "global_locking". It is true
by default. By setting it to false, a device model can request BQL-free
dispatching of region accesses to its r/w handlers. The actual BQL
break-up will be provided in a separate patch.
Backports commit 196ea13104f802c508e57180b2a0d2b3418989a3 from qemu
These are not Architecture specific in any way so move them out of
cpu-defs.h. tb-hash.h is an appropriate place as a leading user and
their strong relationship to TB hashing and caching.
Backports commit 41da4bd6420afd1209c408974920f63ff9c658e1 from qemu
This is one of very few things in exec-all with a genuine CPU
architecture dependency. Move these hashing helpers to a new
header to trim exec-all.h down to a near architecture-agnostic
header.
The defs are only used by cpu-exec and translate-all which are both
arch-obj's so the new tb-hash.h has no core code usage.
Backports commit e1b89321bafea9fb33d87852fc91fee579d17dfe from qemu
These exception indicies are generic and don't have any reliance on the
per-arch cpu.h defs. Move them to cpu-all.h so they can be used by core
code that does not have access to cpu-defs.h.
Backports commit 9e0dc48c9f05505b53cb28f860456a0648e56ddf from qemu
The usages of this define are pure TCG and there is no architecture
specific variation of the value. Localise it to the TCG engine to
remove another architecture agnostic piece from cpu-defs.h.
This follows on from a28177820a868eafda8fab007561cc19f41941f4 where
temp_buf was moved out of the CPU_COMMON obsoleting the need for
the super early definition.
Backports commit 6e0b07306d1793e8402dd218d2e38a7377b5fc27 from qemu
To avoid to many #ifdef in target code, provide a tlb_vaddr_to_host for
both user and softmmu modes. In the first case the function always
succeed and just call the g2h function.
Backports commit 2e83c496261c799b0fe6b8e18ac80cdc0a5c97ce from qemu
The cpu_physical_memory_reset_dirty() function is sometimes used
together with cpu_physical_memory_get_dirty(). This is not atomic since
two separate accesses to the dirty memory bitmap are made.
Turn cpu_physical_memory_reset_dirty() and
cpu_physical_memory_clear_dirty_range_type() into the atomic
cpu_physical_memory_test_and_clear_dirty().
Backports commit 03eebc9e3246b9b3f5925aa41f7dfd7c1e467875 from qemu
Use set_bit_atomic() and bitmap_set_atomic() so that multiple threads
can dirty memory without race conditions.
Backports commit d114875b9a1c21162f69a12d72f69a22e7bab376 from qemu
Most of the time, not all bitmaps have to be marked as dirty;
do not do anything if the interesting ones are already dirty.
Previously, any clean bitmap would have cause all the bitmaps to be
marked dirty.
In fact, unless running TCG most of the time bitmap operations need
not be done at all, because memory_region_is_logging returns zero.
In this case, skip the call to cpu_physical_memory_range_includes_clean
altogether as well.
With this patch, cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_range is called
unconditionally, so there need not be anymore a separate call to
xen_modified_memory.
Backports commit e87f7778b64d4a6a78e16c288c7fdc6c15317d5f from qemu
cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_lebitmap unconditionally syncs the
DIRTY_MEMORY_CODE bitmap. This however is unused unless TCG is
enabled.
Backports commit 9460dee4b2258e3990906fb34099481c8334c267 from qemu
While it is obvious that cpu_physical_memory_get_dirty returns true even if
a single page is dirty, the same is not true for cpu_physical_memory_get_clean;
one would expect that it returns true only if all the pages are clean, but
it actually looks for even one clean page. (By contrast, the caller of that
function, cpu_physical_memory_range_includes_clean, has a good name).
To clarify, rename the function to cpu_physical_memory_all_dirty and return
true if _all_ the pages are dirty. This is the opposite of the previous
meaning, because "all are 1" is the same as "not (any is 0)", so we have to
modify cpu_physical_memory_range_includes_clean as well
Backports commit 72b47e79cef36ed6ffc718f10e21001d7ec2a66f from qemu
These days modification of the TLB is done in notdirty_mem_write,
so the virtual address and env pointer as unnecessary.
The new name of the function, tlb_unprotect_code, is consistent with
tlb_protect_code.
Backports commit 9564f52da7eb061326956ed9a468935e3352512d from qemu
Remove them from the sundry exec-all.h header, since they are only used by
the TCG runtime in exec.c and user-exec.c.
Backports commit 1652b974766401743879d78f796f44b8929b0787 from qemu
