target-arm: don't generate WFE/YIELD calls for MTTCG

The WFE and YIELD instructions are really only hints and in TCG's case
they were useful to move the scheduling on from one vCPU to the next. In
the parallel context (MTTCG) this just causes an unnecessary cpu_exit
and contention of the BQL.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/target/arm/translate.c b/target/arm/translate.c
index 4436d8f..abc1f77 100644
--- a/target/arm/translate.c
+++ b/target/arm/translate.c
@@ -4404,20 +4404,32 @@ static void gen_exception_return(DisasContext *s, TCGv_i32 pc)
     gen_rfe(s, pc, load_cpu_field(spsr));
 }
 
+/*
+ * For WFI we will halt the vCPU until an IRQ. For WFE and YIELD we
+ * only call the helper when running single threaded TCG code to ensure
+ * the next round-robin scheduled vCPU gets a crack. In MTTCG mode we
+ * just skip this instruction. Currently the SEV/SEVL instructions
+ * which are *one* of many ways to wake the CPU from WFE are not
+ * implemented so we can't sleep like WFI does.
+ */
 static void gen_nop_hint(DisasContext *s, int val)
 {
     switch (val) {
     case 1: /* yield */
-        gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_YIELD;
+        }
         break;
     case 3: /* wfi */
         gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
         s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFI;
         break;
     case 2: /* wfe */
-        gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
-        s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        if (!parallel_cpus) {
+            gen_set_pc_im(s, s->pc);
+            s->is_jmp = DISAS_WFE;
+        }
         break;
     case 4: /* sev */
     case 5: /* sevl */