target-arm: don't generate WFE/YIELD calls for MTTCG

The WFE and YIELD instructions are really only hints and in TCG's case
they were useful to move the scheduling on from one vCPU to the next. In
the parallel context (MTTCG) this just causes an unnecessary cpu_exit
and contention of the BQL.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

diff --git a/target/arm/op_helper.c b/target/arm/op_helper.c
index 5f3e3bdae2dede75bcd1e27b64e791b4257a02b0..d64c8670fa4ab991305148adae2514e1a802b3e7 100644 (file)
--- a/target/arm/op_helper.c
+++ b/target/arm/op_helper.c
@@ -436,6 +436,13 @@ void HELPER(yield)(CPUARMState *env)
     ARMCPU *cpu = arm_env_get_cpu(env);
     CPUState *cs = CPU(cpu);
 
+    /* When running in MTTCG we don't generate jumps to the yield and
+     * WFE helpers as it won't affect the scheduling of other vCPUs.
+     * If we wanted to more completely model WFE/SEV so we don't busy
+     * spin unnecessarily we would need to do something more involved.
+     */
+    g_assert(!parallel_cpus);
+
     /* This is a non-trappable hint instruction that generally indicates
      * that the guest is currently busy-looping. Yield control back to the
      * top level loop so that a more deserving VCPU has a chance to run.

diff --git a/target/arm/translate-a64.c b/target/arm/translate-a64.c
index e61bbd6b3b1fd34d2170fe120152908c17ddf1a1..e15eae6d4170f84e82b4e8d18167758d75e0d860 100644 (file)
--- a/target/arm/translate-a64.c
+++ b/target/arm/translate-a64.c
@@ -1328,10 +1328,14 @@ static void handle_hint(DisasContext *s, uint32_t insn,
         s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFI;
         return;
     case 1: /* YIELD */
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        }
         return;
     case 2: /* WFE */
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        }
         return;
     case 4: /* SEV */
     case 5: /* SEVL */

diff --git a/target/arm/translate.c b/target/arm/translate.c
index 4436d8f3a218b9994d191f3cb61c5b38a682e472..abc1f77ee4d6928548abfdc6b988c82b34b2c9c0 100644 (file)
--- a/target/arm/translate.c
+++ b/target/arm/translate.c
@@ -4404,20 +4404,32 @@ static void gen_exception_return(DisasContext *s, TCGv_i32 pc)
     gen_rfe(s, pc, load_cpu_field(spsr));
 }
 
+/*
+ * For WFI we will halt the vCPU until an IRQ. For WFE and YIELD we
+ * only call the helper when running single threaded TCG code to ensure
+ * the next round-robin scheduled vCPU gets a crack. In MTTCG mode we
+ * just skip this instruction. Currently the SEV/SEVL instructions
+ * which are *one* of many ways to wake the CPU from WFE are not
+ * implemented so we can't sleep like WFI does.
+ */
 static void gen_nop_hint(DisasContext *s, int val)
 {
     switch (val) {
     case 1: /* yield */
-        gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        }
         break;
     case 3: /* wfi */
         gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
         s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFI;
         break;
     case 2: /* wfe */
-        gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        }
         break;
     case 4: /* sev */
     case 5: /* sevl */