tcg: remove tb_lock

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 +-+                                           ***         +-+
      |                                           **         #    |
      |                                        *B*          #D    |
      |                                     *** *         ##      |
  500 +-+                                ***           ###      +-+
      |                             * ***           ###           |
      |                            *B*          # ##              |
      |                          ** *          #D#                |
  400 +-+                      **            ##                 +-+
      |                      **           ###                     |
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      |                  **         # ##                          |
  300 +-+  *           B*          #D#                          +-+
      |    B         ***        ###                               |
      |    *       **       ####                                  |
      |     *   ***      ###                                      |
  200 +-+   B  *B     #D#                                       +-+
      |     #B* *   ## #                                          |
      |     #*    ##                                              |
      |    + D##D#     +            +           +            +    |
  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  +-+
     |                                                   **###    |
     |                                                 **##       |
  70 +-+                                             ** #       +-+
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  60 +-+                                       *B  ##           +-+
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  50 +-+                               ***   ##                 +-+
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  40 +-+                     ****  # ##                         +-+
     |                   ****     #D#                             |
     |             ***B**      ###                                |
  30 +-+    B***B**        ####                                 +-+
     |    B *   *     # ###                                       |
     |     B       ###D#                                          |
  20 +-+   D  ##D##                                             +-+
     |      D#                                                    |
     |    +     +     +            +            +            +    |
  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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt b/docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt
index df83445ccf..06530be1e9 100644
--- a/docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ have their block-to-block jumps patched.
 Global TCG State
 ----------------
 
+### User-mode emulation
 We need to protect the entire code generation cycle including any post
 generation patching of the translated code. This also implies a shared
 translation buffer which contains code running on all cores. Any
@@ -75,9 +76,11 @@ patching.
 
 (Current solution)
 
-Mainly as part of the linux-user work all code generation is
-serialised with a tb_lock(). For the SoftMMU tb_lock() also takes the
-place of mmap_lock() in linux-user.
+Code generation is serialised with mmap_lock().
+
+### !User-mode emulation
+Each vCPU has its own TCG context and associated TCG region, thereby
+requiring no locking.
 
 Translation Blocks
 ------------------
@@ -195,7 +198,7 @@ work as "safe work" and exiting the cpu run loop. This ensure by the
 time execution restarts all flush operations have completed.
 
 TLB flag updates are all done atomically and are also protected by the
-tb_lock() which is used by the functions that update the TLB in bulk.
+corresponding page lock.
 
 (Known limitation)