tcg: drop global lock during TCG code execution

This finally allows TCG to benefit from the iothread introduction: Drop
the global mutex while running pure TCG CPU code. Reacquire the lock
when entering MMIO or PIO emulation, or when leaving the TCG loop.

We have to revert a few optimization for the current TCG threading
model, namely kicking the TCG thread in qemu_mutex_lock_iothread and not
kicking it in qemu_cpu_kick. We also need to disable RAM block
reordering until we have a more efficient locking mechanism at hand.

Still, a Linux x86 UP guest and my Musicpal ARM model boot fine here.
These numbers demonstrate where we gain something:

20338 jan       20   0  331m  75m 6904 R   99  0.9   0:50.95 qemu-system-arm
20337 jan       20   0  331m  75m 6904 S   20  0.9   0:26.50 qemu-system-arm

The guest CPU was fully loaded, but the iothread could still run mostly
independent on a second core. Without the patch we don't get beyond

32206 jan       20   0  330m  73m 7036 R   82  0.9   1:06.00 qemu-system-arm
32204 jan       20   0  330m  73m 7036 S   21  0.9   0:17.03 qemu-system-arm

We don't benefit significantly, though, when the guest is not fully
loading a host CPU.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Message-Id: <1439220437-23957-10-git-send-email-fred.konrad@greensocs.com>
[FK: Rebase, fix qemu_devices_reset deadlock, rm address_space_* mutex]
Signed-off-by: KONRAD Frederic <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>
[EGC: fixed iothread lock for cpu-exec IRQ handling]
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
[AJB: -smp single-threaded fix, clean commit msg, BQL fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
[PM: target-arm changes]
Acked-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/translate-all.c b/translate-all.c
index 8a861cb583..f810259c41 100644
--- a/translate-all.c
+++ b/translate-all.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 #include "translate-all.h"
 #include "qemu/bitmap.h"
 #include "qemu/timer.h"
+#include "qemu/main-loop.h"
 #include "exec/log.h"
 
 /* #define DEBUG_TB_INVALIDATE */
@@ -1523,7 +1524,7 @@ void tb_invalidate_phys_page_range(tb_page_addr_t start, tb_page_addr_t end,
 #ifdef CONFIG_SOFTMMU
 /* len must be <= 8 and start must be a multiple of len.
  * Called via softmmu_template.h when code areas are written to with
- * tb_lock held.
+ * iothread mutex not held.
  */
 void tb_invalidate_phys_page_fast(tb_page_addr_t start, int len)
 {
@@ -1725,7 +1726,10 @@ void tb_check_watchpoint(CPUState *cpu)
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
 /* in deterministic execution mode, instructions doing device I/Os
-   must be at the end of the TB */
+ * must be at the end of the TB.
+ *
+ * Called by softmmu_template.h, with iothread mutex not held.
+ */
 void cpu_io_recompile(CPUState *cpu, uintptr_t retaddr)
 {
 #if defined(TARGET_MIPS) || defined(TARGET_SH4)
@@ -1937,6 +1941,7 @@ void dump_opcount_info(FILE *f, fprintf_function cpu_fprintf)
 
 void cpu_interrupt(CPUState *cpu, int mask)
 {
+    g_assert(qemu_mutex_iothread_locked());
     cpu->interrupt_request |= mask;
     cpu->tcg_exit_req = 1;
 }