This is the rebased and updated version of the patches I posted a couple months ago (well before soft freeze :)).
This version introduces a qemu_mutex_iothread_locked() primitive in order to avoid recursive locking of the BQL. The previous attempts, which used functions such as address_space_rw_unlocked, required the introduction of a multitude of *_unlocked functions (e.g. address_space_ldl_unlocked or dma_buf_write_unlocked). Note that adding unlocked access to TCG would require reverting commit 3b64349 (memory: Replace io_mem_read/write with memory_region_dispatch_read/write, 2015-04-26). Paolo v2->v3: Fix grammar consistency in patch 3 [Fam] Fix bad rebase in patch 5 [Fam] Jan Kiszka (4): memory: Add global-locking property to memory regions memory: let address_space_rw/ld*/st* run outside the BQL kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop kvm: Switch to unlocked PIO Paolo Bonzini (5): main-loop: use qemu_mutex_lock_iothread consistently main-loop: introduce qemu_mutex_iothread_locked exec: pull qemu_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer() into address_space_rw/ld*/st* acpi: mark PMTIMER as unlocked kvm: Switch to unlocked MMIO cpus.c | 19 ++++++++++--- exec.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/acpi/core.c | 1 + include/exec/memory.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++ include/qemu/main-loop.h | 10 +++++++ kvm-all.c | 8 ++++-- memory.c | 23 ++++++++-------- stubs/iothread-lock.c | 5 ++++ target-i386/kvm.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++ target-mips/kvm.c | 4 +++ target-ppc/kvm.c | 7 +++++ target-s390x/kvm.c | 3 +++ 12 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) -- 2.4.3