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authorAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2020-02-28 19:24:14 +0000
committerRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>2020-02-28 17:43:25 -0800
commit21f2f447ad28d099d3ac5adc8ffe8eeaa56604f4 (patch)
treef2322bc547bac30470d8c335fa7f9b1f4314805f /accel
parent47a2def4533a2807e48954abd50b32ecb1aaf29a (diff)
accel/tcg: only USE_STATIC_CODE_GEN_BUFFER on 32 bit hosts
There is no particular reason to use a static codegen buffer on 64 bit hosts as we have address space to burn. Allow the common CONFIG_USER case to use the mmap'ed buffers like SoftMMU. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20200228192415.19867-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'accel')
-rw-r--r--accel/tcg/translate-all.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/accel/tcg/translate-all.c b/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
index 5b66af783b..4ce5d1b393 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
@@ -892,11 +892,12 @@ static void page_lock_pair(PageDesc **ret_p1, tb_page_addr_t phys1,
}
}
-#if defined(CONFIG_USER_ONLY)
-/* Currently it is not recommended to allocate big chunks of data in
- user mode. It will change when a dedicated libc will be used. */
-/* ??? 64-bit hosts ought to have no problem mmaping data outside the
- region in which the guest needs to run. Revisit this. */
+#if defined(CONFIG_USER_ONLY) && TCG_TARGET_REG_BITS == 32
+/*
+ * For user mode on smaller 32 bit systems we may run into trouble
+ * allocating big chunks of data in the right place. On these systems
+ * we utilise a static code generation buffer directly in the binary.
+ */
#define USE_STATIC_CODE_GEN_BUFFER
#endif