[Qemu-devel] [PATCH qemu v4 00/18] memory: Reduce memory use

[Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>]

This was inspired by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1481593
Previous versions:
v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg01559.html
v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg04069.html
v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg04523.html

This patchset tries to reduce amount of memory used by FlatViews
and tries share as many FVs between address spaces as possible.

Changelog:
v4:
* total rework again to provide grounds for new 15/18, 17/18, 18/18

v3:
* addressed comments from v2, mainly simplified the code

v2:
* total rework


This is based on sha1
c51700273a Peter Maydell "Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/cohuck/tags/s390x-20170919-v2' into staging".

Please comment. Thanks.



Alexey Kardashevskiy (18):
  exec: Explicitly export target AS from
    address_space_translate_internal
  memory: Open code FlatView rendering
  memory: Move FlatView allocation to a helper
  memory: Move AddressSpaceDispatch from AddressSpace to FlatView
  memory: Remove AddressSpace pointer from AddressSpaceDispatch
  memory: Switch memory from using AddressSpace to FlatView
  memory: Cleanup after switching to FlatView
  memory: Rename mem_begin/mem_commit/mem_add helpers
  memory: Store physical root MR in FlatView
  memory: Alloc dispatch tree where topology is generared
  memory: Move address_space_update_ioeventfds
  memory: Share FlatView's and dispatch trees between address spaces
  memory: Do not allocate FlatView in address_space_init
  memory: Add flat views to HMP "info mtree"
  memory: Share special empty FlatView
  memory: Get rid of address_space_init_shareable
  memory: Create FlatView directly
  memory: Give memory_region_transaction_commit a hint

 include/exec/memory-internal.h |  16 +-
 include/exec/memory.h          |  76 ++++----
 include/hw/arm/armv7m.h        |   2 +-
 cpus.c                         |   5 +-
 exec.c                         | 330 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 hw/arm/armv7m.c                |   9 +-
 hw/intc/openpic_kvm.c          |   2 +-
 memory.c                       | 383 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 monitor.c                      |   3 +-
 target/arm/cpu.c               |  16 +-
 target/i386/cpu.c              |   5 +-
 hmp-commands-info.hx           |   7 +-
 12 files changed, 570 insertions(+), 284 deletions(-)

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