util: Introduce qemu_thread_set_affinity() and qemu_thread_get_affinity()

Usually, we let upper layers handle CPU pinning, because
pthread_setaffinity_np() (-> sched_setaffinity()) is blocked via
seccomp when starting QEMU with
    -sandbox enable=on,resourcecontrol=deny

However, we want to configure and observe the CPU affinity of threads
from QEMU directly in some cases when the sandbox option is either not
enabled or not active yet.

So let's add a way to configure CPU pinning via
qemu_thread_set_affinity() and obtain CPU affinity via
qemu_thread_get_affinity() and implement them under POSIX using
pthread_setaffinity_np() + pthread_getaffinity_np().

Implementation under Windows is possible using SetProcessAffinityMask()
+ GetProcessAffinityMask(), however, that is left as future work.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20221014134720.168738-3-david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qemu/thread.h b/include/qemu/thread.h
index af19f2b..79e507c 100644
--- a/include/qemu/thread.h
+++ b/include/qemu/thread.h
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ void qemu_event_destroy(QemuEvent *ev);
 void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name,
                         void *(*start_routine)(void *),
                         void *arg, int mode);
+int qemu_thread_set_affinity(QemuThread *thread, unsigned long *host_cpus,
+                             unsigned long nbits);
+int qemu_thread_get_affinity(QemuThread *thread, unsigned long **host_cpus,
+                             unsigned long *nbits);
 void *qemu_thread_join(QemuThread *thread);
 void qemu_thread_get_self(QemuThread *thread);
 bool qemu_thread_is_self(QemuThread *thread);