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| author | Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> | 2015-06-18 18:47:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2015-07-01 15:45:50 +0200 |
| commit | 196ea13104f802c508e57180b2a0d2b3418989a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 60167787abeca65610b7f64c5e7c8300a33982a3 /include/exec | |
| parent | afbe70535ff1a8a7a32910cc15ebecc0ba92e7da (diff) | |
memory: Add global-locking property to memory regions
This introduces the memory region property "global_locking". It is true
by default. By setting it to false, a device model can request BQL-free
dispatching of region accesses to its r/w handlers. The actual BQL
break-up will be provided in a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Frederic Konrad <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1434646046-27150-4-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/exec')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/exec/memory.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/exec/memory.h b/include/exec/memory.h index 8ae004eb06..0ebdc55506 100644 --- a/include/exec/memory.h +++ b/include/exec/memory.h @@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ struct MemoryRegion { bool rom_device; bool warning_printed; /* For reservations */ bool flush_coalesced_mmio; + bool global_locking; MemoryRegion *alias; hwaddr alias_offset; int32_t priority; @@ -825,6 +826,31 @@ void memory_region_set_flush_coalesced(MemoryRegion *mr); void memory_region_clear_flush_coalesced(MemoryRegion *mr); /** + * memory_region_set_global_locking: Declares the access processing requires + * QEMU's global lock. + * + * When this is invoked, accesses to the memory region will be processed while + * holding the global lock of QEMU. This is the default behavior of memory + * regions. + * + * @mr: the memory region to be updated. + */ +void memory_region_set_global_locking(MemoryRegion *mr); + +/** + * memory_region_clear_global_locking: Declares that access processing does + * not depend on the QEMU global lock. + * + * By clearing this property, accesses to the memory region will be processed + * outside of QEMU's global lock (unless the lock is held on when issuing the + * access request). In this case, the device model implementing the access + * handlers is responsible for synchronization of concurrency. + * + * @mr: the memory region to be updated. + */ +void memory_region_clear_global_locking(MemoryRegion *mr); + +/** * memory_region_add_eventfd: Request an eventfd to be triggered when a word * is written to a location. * |