Actually enable the global memory barriers if supported by the OS.
Because only recent versions of Linux include the support, they
are disabled by default. Note that it also has to be disabled
for QEMU to run under Wine.
Before this patch, rcutorture reports 85 ns/read for my machine,
after the patch it reports 12.5 ns/read. On the other hand updates
go from 50 *micro*seconds to 20 *milli*seconds.
Backports commit a40161cbe9ccbcbab798c3e4d257c4bba99d153a from qemu
Add helpers to gather cache info from the host at init-time.
For now, only export the host's I/D cache line sizes, which we
will use to improve cache locality to avoid false sharing.
Backports commit b255b2c8a5484742606e8760870ba3e14d0c9605 from qemu
g_list_insert_sorted_merged() is rather large to be an inline
function; move it to its own file. range_merge() and
ranges_can_merge() can likewise move, as they are only used
internally. Also, it becomes obvious that the condition within
range_merge() is already satisfied by its caller, and that the
return value is not used.
The diffstat is misleading, because of the copyright boilerplate.
Backports commit fec0fc0a13ac7f1a1130433a6740cd850c3db34a from qemu
Anonymous and file-backed RAM allocation are now almost exactly the same.
Reduce code duplication by moving RAM mmap code out of oslib-posix.c and
exec.c.
Backports commit 794e8f301a17953efa78ab7538019ec43c59e82a from qemu
To prepare for a generic internal cipher API, move the
built-in AES implementation into the crypto/ directory
Backports commit 6f2945cde60545aae7f31ab9d5ef29531efbc94f from qemu
