In certain scenario, latency induced by paging is significant and
memory locking is needed. Also, in the scenario with untrusted
guests, latency improvement due to mlock is desired.
This patch introduces a following new option to mlock guest and
qemu memory:
-realtime mlock=on|off
Signed-off-by: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1366382526-26146-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The setjmp() function doesn't specify whether signal masks are saved and
restored; on Linux they are not, but on BSD (including MacOSX) they are.
We want to have consistent behaviour across platforms, so we should
always use "don't save/restore signal mask" (this is also generally
going to be faster). This also works around a bug in MacOSX where the
signal-restoration on longjmp() affects the signal mask for a completely
different thread, not just the mask for the thread which did the longjmp.
The most visible effect of this was that ctrl-C was ignored on MacOSX
because the CPU thread did a longjmp which resulted in its signal mask
being applied to every thread, so that all threads had SIGINT and SIGTERM
blocked.
The POSIX-sanctioned portable way to do a jump without affecting signal
masks is to siglongjmp() to a sigjmp_buf which was created by calling
sigsetjmp() with a zero savemask parameter, so change all uses of
setjmp()/longjmp() accordingly. [Technically POSIX allows sigsetjmp(buf, 0)
to save the signal mask; however the following siglongjmp() must not
restore the signal mask, so the pair can be effectively considered as
"sigjmp/longjmp which don't touch the mask".]
For Windows we provide a trivial sigsetjmp/siglongjmp in terms of
setjmp/longjmp -- this is OK because no user will ever pass a non-zero
savemask.
The setjmp() uses in tests/tcg/test-i386.c and tests/tcg/linux-test.c
are left untouched because these are self-contained singlethreaded
test programs intended to be run under QEMU's Linux emulation, so they
have neither the portability nor the multithreading issues to deal with.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Tested-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
MinGW has no strtok_r, so we need a declaration in sysemu/os-win32.h.
We must also fix the include statements in util/envlist.c to include
that file.
We currently don't need an implementation of strtok_r because the
code is compiled but not linked for MinGW.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
