touch_all_pages() can return early, before creating threads. In this case,
however, it leaks the MemsetContext that it has allocated at the
beginning of the function.
Reported by Coverity as CID 1534922.
Fixes: 04accf43df ("oslib-posix: initialize backend memory objects in parallel", 2024-02-06)
Reviewed-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pass an error object as the third parameter to "notifier with return"
notifiers, so clients no longer need to bundle an error object in the
opaque data. The new parameter is used in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1708622920-68779-2-git-send-email-steven.sistare@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
SocketAddress branch @fd is documented in enum SocketAddressType,
unlike the other branches. That's because the branch's type is String
from common.json.
Use a local copy of String, so we can put the documentation in the
usual place.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240205074709.3613229-14-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
make vm-build-freebsd fails with:
ld: error: undefined symbol: inotify_init1
>>> referenced by filemonitor-inotify.c:183 (../src/util/filemonitor-inotify.c:183)
>>> util_filemonitor-inotify.c.o:(qemu_file_monitor_new) in archive libqemuutil.a
On FreeBSD the inotify functions are defined in libinotify.so. Add it
to the dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240206002344.12372-5-iii@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
QEMU initializes preallocated backend memory as the objects are parsed from
the command line. This is not optimal in some cases (e.g. memory spanning
multiple NUMA nodes) because the memory objects are initialized in series.
Allow the initialization to occur in parallel (asynchronously). In order to
ensure optimal thread placement, asynchronous initialization requires prealloc
context threads to be in use.
Signed-off-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Message-ID: <20240131165327.3154970-2-mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
This commit was created with scripts/clean-includes:
./scripts/clean-includes --git misc net/af-xdp.c plugins/*.c audio/pwaudio.c util/userfaultfd.c
All .c should include qemu/osdep.h first. The script performs three
related cleanups:
* Ensure .c files include qemu/osdep.h first.
* Including it in a .h is redundant, since the .c already includes
it. Drop such inclusions.
* Likewise, including headers qemu/osdep.h includes is redundant.
Drop these, too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Conversion of docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt to ReST left several
dangling references behind. Fix them to point to
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst.
Fixes: f7aa076dbd (docs: convert qapi-code-gen.txt to ReST)
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240120095327.666239-4-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
They are not used anywhere, so there's no need to keep them around.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240123182247.432642-5-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Now that uri_resolve_relative() has been removed, this function is not
used in QEMU anymore - and if somebody needs this functionality, they
can simply use g_uri_escape_string() from the glib instead.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240123182247.432642-4-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These rather complex functions have never been used since they've been
introduced in 2012, so looks like they are not really useful for QEMU.
And since the static normalize_uri_path() function is also only used by
uri_resolve(), we can remove that function now, too.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Reviewed-by: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240123182247.432642-3-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
uri_string_unescape() basically does the same as the glib function
g_uri_unescape_segment(). So we can get rid of our implementation
completely by simply using the glib function instead.
Suggested-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240123182247.432642-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Coroutine may be pooled even after COROUTINE_TERMINATE if
CONFIG_COROUTINE_POOL is enabled and fake stack should be saved in
such a case to keep AddressSanitizerUseAfterReturn working. Even worse,
I'm seeing stack corruption without fake stack being saved.
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240117-asan-v2-1-26f9e1ea6e72@daynix.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20231208113529.74067-6-philmd@linaro.org>
uintptr_t, or unsigned long which is equivalent on Linux I32LP64 systems,
is an unsigned type and there is no need to further cast to __u64 which is
another unsigned integer type; widening casts from unsigned integers
zero-extend the value.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Use PPC_FEATURE2_ISEL and PPC_FEATURE2_VEC_CRYPTO from linux headers
instead of the GNU specific PPC_FEATURE2_HAS_ISEL and
PPC_FEATURE2_HAS_VEC_CRYPTO. This fixes build with musl libc.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1861
Signed-off-by: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Fixes: 63922f467a ("tcg/ppc: Replace HAVE_ISEL macro with a variable")
Fixes: 68f340d4cd ("tcg/ppc: Enable Altivec detection")
Message-Id: <20231219105236.7059-1-ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To be able to peek at FIFO content without popping it,
introduce the fifo8_peek_buf() method by factoring
common content from fifo8_pop_buf().
Reviewed-by: Francisco Iglesias <frasse.iglesias@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20231109192814.95977-3-philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
There might be cases where we know the number of bytes we can
pop from the FIFO, or we simply don't care how many bytes is
returned. Allow fifo8_pop_buf() to take a NULL numptr.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Iglesias <frasse.iglesias@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20231109192814.95977-2-philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
The term "iothread lock" is obsolete. The APIs use Big QEMU Lock (BQL)
in their names. Update the code comments to use "BQL" instead of
"iothread lock".
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harshpb@linux.ibm.com>
Message-id: 20240102153529.486531-5-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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>
aio_context_set_aio_params() doesn't use its undocumented
Error** argument. Remove it to simplify.
Note this removes a use of "unchecked Error**" in
iothread_set_aio_context_params().
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20231120171806.19361-1-philmd@linaro.org>
Following the example documented since commit e3fe3988d7 ("error:
Document Error API usage rules"), have qemu_prealloc_mem()
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: <20231120213301.24349-19-philmd@linaro.org>
This variable is about the host OS, not the target. It is used a lot
more since the Meson conversion, but the original sin dates back to 2003.
Time to fix it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
CONFIG_DARWIN, CONFIG_LINUX and CONFIG_BSD are used in some rules, but
only CONFIG_LINUX has substantial use. Convert them all to if...endif.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20231221031652.119827-70-richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Delete these functions because nothing calls these functions anymore.
I introduced these APIs in commit 98563fc3ec ("aio: add
aio_context_acquire() and aio_context_release()") in 2014. It's with a
sigh of relief that I delete these APIs almost 10 years later.
Thanks to Paolo Bonzini's vision for multi-queue QEMU, we got an
understanding of where the code needed to go in order to remove the
limitations that the original dataplane and the IOThread/AioContext
approach that followed it.
Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito had the splendid determination to convert
large parts of the codebase so that they no longer needed the AioContext
lock. This was a painstaking process, both in the actual code changes
required and the iterations of code review that Emanuele eked out of
Kevin and me over many months.
Kevin Wolf tackled multitudes of graph locking conversions to protect
in-flight I/O from run-time changes to the block graph as well as the
clang Thread Safety Analysis annotations that allow the compiler to
check whether the graph lock is being used correctly.
And me, well, I'm just here to add some pizzazz to the QEMU multi-queue
block layer :). Thank you to everyone who helped with this effort,
including Eric Blake, code reviewer extraordinaire, and others who I've
forgotten to mention.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20231205182011.1976568-11-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
This is the big patch that removes
aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() from the block layer and
affected block layer users.
There isn't a clean way to split this patch and the reviewers are likely
the same group of people, so I decided to do it in one patch.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Message-ID: <20231205182011.1976568-7-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() has been replaced by
fine-grained locking to protect state shared by multiple threads. The
AioContext lock still plays the role of balancing locking in
AIO_WAIT_WHILE() and many functions in QEMU either require that the
AioContext lock is held or not held for this reason. In other words, the
AioContext lock is purely there for consistency with itself and serves
no real purpose anymore.
Stop actually acquiring/releasing the lock in
aio_context_acquire()/aio_context_release() so that subsequent patches
can remove callers across the codebase incrementally.
I have performed "make check" and qemu-iotests stress tests across
x86-64, ppc64le, and aarch64 to confirm that there are no failures as a
result of eliminating the lock.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20231205182011.1976568-5-stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
/dev/vfio/devices/vfioX may not exist. In that case it is still possible
to open /dev/char/$major:$minor instead. Add helper function to abstract
the cdev open.
Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
The vhost-user-blk export implement AioContext switches in its drain
implementation. This means that on drain_begin, it detaches the server
from its AioContext and on drain_end, attaches it again and schedules
the server->co_trip coroutine in the updated AioContext.
However, nothing guarantees that server->co_trip is even safe to be
scheduled. Not only is it unclear that the coroutine is actually in a
state where it can be reentered externally without causing problems, but
with two consecutive drains, it is possible that the scheduled coroutine
didn't have a chance yet to run and trying to schedule an already
scheduled coroutine a second time crashes with an assertion failure.
Following the model of NBD, this commit makes the vhost-user-blk export
shut down server->co_trip during drain so that resuming the export means
creating and scheduling a new coroutine, which is always safe.
There is one exception: If the drain call didn't poll (for example, this
happens in the context of bdrv_graph_wrlock()), then the coroutine
didn't have a chance to shut down. However, in this case the AioContext
can't have changed; changing the AioContext always involves a polling
drain. So in this case we can simply assert that the AioContext is
unchanged and just leave the coroutine running or wake it up if it has
yielded to wait for the AioContext to be attached again.
Fixes: e1054cd4aa
Fixes: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-1708
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20231127115755.22846-1-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Fixes: 2e12dd405c "util/filemonitor-inotify: qemu_file_monitor_watch(): assert no overflow"
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
qemu_uuid_unparse() includes a trailing NUL when writing the uuid
string and the buffer size should be UUID_FMT_LEN + 1 bytes. Add a
define for this size and use it where required.
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
This helper reverses a list of regions within a [low, high]
span, turning original regions into holes and original
holes into actual regions, covering the whole UINT64_MAX span.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Introduce resv_region_list_insert() helper which inserts
a new ReservedRegion into a sorted list of reserved region.
In case of overlap, the new region has higher priority and
hides the existing overlapped segments. If the overlap is
partial, new regions are created for parts which are not
overlapped. The new region has higher priority independently
on the type of the regions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Yanghang Liu <yanghliu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Let's expose range_compare() in the header so that it can be
reused outside of util/range.c
Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
virtio-blk and virtio-scsi invoke virtio_irqfd_notify() to send Used
Buffer Notifications from an IOThread. This involves an eventfd
write(2) syscall. Calling this repeatedly when completing multiple I/O
requests in a row is wasteful.
Use the defer_call() API to batch together virtio_irqfd_notify() calls
made during thread pool (aio=threads), Linux AIO (aio=native), and
io_uring (aio=io_uring) completion processing.
Behavior is unchanged for emulated devices that do not use
defer_call_begin()/defer_call_end() since defer_call() immediately
invokes the callback when called outside a
defer_call_begin()/defer_call_end() region.
fio rw=randread bs=4k iodepth=64 numjobs=8 IOPS increases by ~9% with a
single IOThread and 8 vCPUs. iodepth=1 decreases by ~1% but this could
be noise. Detailed performance data and configuration specifics are
available here:
https://gitlab.com/stefanha/virt-playbooks/-/tree/blk_io_plug-irqfd
This duplicates the BH that virtio-blk uses for batching. The next
commit will remove it.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230913200045.1024233-4-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
The networking subsystem may wish to use defer_call(), so move the code
to util/ where it can be reused.
As a reminder of what defer_call() does:
This API defers a function call within a defer_call_begin()/defer_call_end()
section, allowing multiple calls to batch up. This is a performance
optimization that is used in the block layer to submit several I/O requests
at once instead of individually:
defer_call_begin(); <-- start of section
...
defer_call(my_func, my_obj); <-- deferred my_func(my_obj) call
defer_call(my_func, my_obj); <-- another
defer_call(my_func, my_obj); <-- another
...
defer_call_end(); <-- end of section, my_func(my_obj) is called once
Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@ovn.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230913200045.1024233-3-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
get_relocated_path() did not have error handling for PathCchSkipRoot()
because a path given to get_relocated_path() was expected to be a valid
path containing a drive letter or UNC server/share path elements on
Windows, but sometimes it turned out otherwise.
The paths passed to get_relocated_path() are defined by macros generated
by Meson. Meson in turn uses a prefix given by the configure script to
generate them. For Windows, the script passes /qemu as a prefix to
Meson by default.
As documented in docs/about/build-platforms.rst, typically MSYS2 is used
for the build system, but it is also possible to use Linux as well. When
MSYS2 is used, its Bash variant recognizes /qemu as a MSYS2 path, and
converts it to a Windows path, adding the MSYS2 prefix including a drive
letter or UNC server/share path elements. Such a conversion does not
happen on a shell on Linux however, and /qemu will be passed as is in
the case.
Implement a proper error handling of PathCchSkipRoot() in
get_relocated_path() so that it can handle a path without a drive letter
or UNC server/share path elements.
Reported-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20231005064726.6945-1-akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Say QEMU is configured with bindir = "/usr/bin" and a firmware path
that starts with "/usr/share/qemu". Ever since QEMU 5.2, QEMU's
install has been relocatable: if you move qemu-system-x86_64 from
/usr/bin to /home/username/bin, it will start looking for firmware in
/home/username/share/qemu. Previously, you would get a non-relocatable
install where the moved QEMU will keep looking for firmware in
/usr/share/qemu.
Windows almost always wants relocatable installs, and in fact that
is why QEMU 5.2 introduced relocatability in the first place.
However, newfangled distribution mechanisms such as AppImage
(https://docs.appimage.org/reference/best-practices.html), and
possibly NixOS, also dislike using at runtime the absolute paths
that were established at build time.
On POSIX systems you almost never care; if you do, your usecase
dictates which one is desirable, so there's no single answer.
Obviously relocatability works fine most of the time, because not many
people have complained about QEMU's switch to relocatable install,
and that's why until now there was no way to disable relocatability.
But a non-relocatable, non-modular binary can help if you want to do
experiments with old firmware and new QEMU or vice versa (because you
can just upgrade/downgrade the firmware package, and use rpm2cpio or
similar to extract the QEMU binaries outside /usr), so allow both.
This patch allows one to build a non-relocatable install using a new
option to configure. Why? Because it's not too hard, and because
it helps the user double check the relocatability of their install.
Note that the same code that handles relocation also lets you run QEMU
from the build tree and pick e.g. firmware files from the source tree
transparently. Therefore that part remains active with this patch,
even if you configure with --disable-relocatable.
Suggested-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Reviewed-by: Emmanouil Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Make all items of config-host.h consistent. To keep the --disable-coroutine-pool
code visible to the compiler, mutuate the IS_ENABLED() macro from Linux.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
