accel/tcg: better handle memory constrained systems

It turns out there are some 64 bit systems that have relatively low
amounts of physical memory available to them (typically CI system).
Even with swapping available a 1GB translation buffer that fills up
can put the machine under increased memory pressure. Detect these low
memory situations and reduce tb_size appropriately.

Fixes: 600e17b2615 ("accel/tcg: increase default code gen buffer size for 64 bit")
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Foley <robert.foley@linaro.org>
Cc: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
Cc: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Message-Id: <20200724064509.331-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

diff --git a/accel/tcg/translate-all.c b/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
index 2afa46bd2b1fd9a0e3527f64cea4b52f23679335..2d83013633b59026ab5daa4a7bb5b3a094270a5f 100644 (file)
--- a/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/translate-all.c
@@ -976,7 +976,12 @@ static inline size_t size_code_gen_buffer(size_t tb_size)
 {
     /* Size the buffer.  */
     if (tb_size == 0) {
-        tb_size = DEFAULT_CODE_GEN_BUFFER_SIZE;
+        size_t phys_mem = qemu_get_host_physmem();
+        if (phys_mem == 0) {
+            tb_size = DEFAULT_CODE_GEN_BUFFER_SIZE;
+        } else {
+            tb_size = MIN(DEFAULT_CODE_GEN_BUFFER_SIZE, phys_mem / 8);
+        }
     }
     if (tb_size < MIN_CODE_GEN_BUFFER_SIZE) {
         tb_size = MIN_CODE_GEN_BUFFER_SIZE;