Convert ram_list to RCU

Allow "unlocked" reads of the ram_list by using an RCU-enabled QLIST.

The ramlist mutex is kept.  call_rcu callbacks are run with the iothread
lock taken, but that may change in the future.  Writers still take the
ramlist mutex, but they no longer need to assume that the iothread lock
is taken.

Readers of the list, instead, no longer require either the iothread
or ramlist mutex, but they need to use rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_read_unlock().

One place in arch_init.c was downgrading from write side to read side
like this:

    qemu_mutex_lock_iothread()
    qemu_mutex_lock_ramlist()
    ...
    qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread()
    ...
    qemu_mutex_unlock_ramlist()

and the equivalent idiom is:

    qemu_mutex_lock_ramlist()
    rcu_read_lock()
    ...
    qemu_mutex_unlock_ramlist()
    ...
    rcu_read_unlock()

Backports the write barriers from commit 0dc3f44aca18b1be8b425f3f4feb4b3e8d68de2e in qemu
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Lioncash 2018-02-18 18:53:46 -05:00
parent 2b93290eea
commit 024ec1755e
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@ -1105,6 +1105,8 @@ static ram_addr_t ram_block_add(struct uc_struct *uc, RAMBlock *new_block, Error
}
uc->ram_list.mru_block = NULL;
/* Write list before version */
smp_wmb();
uc->ram_list.version++;
new_ram_size = last_ram_offset(uc) >> TARGET_PAGE_BITS;