The company 'Arm' went through a rebranding some years back
involving a recapitalization from 'ARM' to 'Arm'. As a result
our documentation is a bit inconsistent between the two forms.
It's not worth trying to update everywhere in QEMU, but it's
easy enough to make docs/ consistent.
Note that "ARMv8" and similar architecture names, and
older CPU names like "ARM926" still retain all-caps.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>
Message-id: 20200309215818.2021-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180612065150.21110-1-ville.skytta@iki.fi
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Use mmap_lock in user-mode to protect TCG state and the page descriptors.
In !user-mode, each vCPU has its own TCG state, so no locks needed.
Per-page locks are used to protect the page descriptors.
Per-TB locks are used in both modes to protect TB jumps.
Some notes:
- tb_lock is removed from notdirty_mem_write by passing a
locked page_collection to tb_invalidate_phys_page_fast.
- tcg_tb_lookup/remove/insert/etc have their own internal lock(s),
so there is no need to further serialize access to them.
- do_tb_flush is run in a safe async context, meaning no other
vCPU threads are running. Therefore acquiring mmap_lock there
is just to please tools such as thread sanitizer.
- Not visible in the diff, but tb_invalidate_phys_page already
has an assert_memory_lock.
- cpu_io_recompile is !user-only, so no mmap_lock there.
- Added mmap_unlock()'s before all siglongjmp's that could
be called in user-mode while mmap_lock is held.
+ Added an assert for !have_mmap_lock() after returning from
the longjmp in cpu_exec, just like we do in cpu_exec_step_atomic.
Performance numbers before/after:
Host: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6376
ubuntu 17.04 ppc64 bootup+shutdown time
700 +-+--+----+------+------------+-----------+------------*--+-+
| + + + + + *B |
| before ***B*** ** * |
|tb lock removal ###D### *** |
600 +-+ *** +-+
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| *B* #D |
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| * ** #### |
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100 +-+--+----+------+------------+-----------+------------+--+-+
1 8 16 Guest CPUs 48 64
png: https://imgur.com/HwmBHXe
debian jessie aarch64 bootup+shutdown time
90 +-+--+-----+-----+------------+------------+------------+--+-+
| + + + + + + |
| before ***B*** B |
80 +tb lock removal ###D### **D +-+
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| **## |
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| **B* ### |
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10 +-+--+-----+-----+------------+------------+------------+--+-+
1 8 16 Guest CPUs 48 64
png: https://imgur.com/iGpGFtv
The gains are high for 4-8 CPUs. Beyond that point, however, unrelated
lock contention significantly hurts scalability.
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
This applies to both user-mode and !user-mode emulation.
Instead of relying on a global lock, protect the list of incoming
jumps with tb->jmp_lock. This lock also protects tb->cflags,
so update all tb->cflags readers outside tb->jmp_lock to use
atomic reads via tb_cflags().
In order to find the destination TB (and therefore its jmp_lock)
from the origin TB, we introduce tb->jmp_dest[].
I considered not using a linked list of jumps, which simplifies
code and makes the struct smaller. However, it unnecessarily increases
memory usage, which results in a performance decrease. See for
instance these numbers booting+shutting down debian-arm:
Time (s) Rel. err (%) Abs. err (s) Rel. slowdown (%)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
before 20.88 0.74 0.154512 0.
after 20.81 0.38 0.079078 -0.33524904
GTree 21.02 0.28 0.058856 0.67049808
GHashTable + xxhash 21.63 1.08 0.233604 3.5919540
Using a hash table or a binary tree to keep track of the jumps
doesn't really pay off, not only due to the increased memory usage,
but also because most TBs have only 0 or 1 jumps to them. The maximum
number of jumps when booting debian-arm that I measured is 35, but
as we can see in the histogram below a TB with that many incoming jumps
is extremely rare; the average TB has 0.80 incoming jumps.
n_jumps: 379208; avg jumps/tb: 0.801099
dist: [0.0,1.0)|▄█▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ ▁▁▁▁▁▁ ▁▁▁ ▁▁▁ ▁|[34.0,35.0]
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Use the recently-gained QHT feature of returning the matching TB if it
already exists. This allows us to get rid of the lookup we perform
right after acquiring tb_lock.
Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Groundwork for supporting parallel TCG generation.
We never remove entries from the radix tree, so we can use cmpxchg
to implement lockless insertions.
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Developer documentation should be its own manual. As a start, move all
developer-oriented files to a separate directory.
Also move non-text files to their own directories: docs/config/ for
QEMU -readconfig input, and docs/spin/ for formal models to be used
with the SPIN model checker.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
