configure: Don't fall back to gthread coroutine backend

This is a back port of 7c2acc7062 to the
1.4 stable branch without needing the new error_exit() function.

configure: Don't fall back to gthread coroutine backend

The gthread coroutine backend is broken and does not produce a working
QEMU; it is only useful for some very limited debugging situations.
Clean up the backend selection logic in configure so that it now runs
"if on windows use windows; else prefer ucontext; else sigaltstack".

To do this we refactor the configure code to separate out "test
whether we have a working ucontext", "pick a default if user didn't
specify" and "validate that user didn't specify something invalid",
rather than having all three of these run together. We also simplify
the Makefile logic so it just links in the backend the configure
script selects.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1365419487-19867-3-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Makefile.objs

@@ -16,16 +16,7 @@ block-obj-y += qapi-types.o qapi-visit.o
 
 block-obj-y += qemu-coroutine.o qemu-coroutine-lock.o qemu-coroutine-io.o
 block-obj-y += qemu-coroutine-sleep.o
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_UCONTEXT_COROUTINE),y)
-block-obj-$(CONFIG_POSIX) += coroutine-ucontext.o
-else
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_SIGALTSTACK_COROUTINE),y)
-block-obj-$(CONFIG_POSIX) += coroutine-sigaltstack.o
-else
-block-obj-$(CONFIG_POSIX) += coroutine-gthread.o
-endif
-endif
-block-obj-$(CONFIG_WIN32) += coroutine-win32.o
+block-obj-y += coroutine-$(CONFIG_COROUTINE_BACKEND).o
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_VIRTIO)$(CONFIG_VIRTFS)$(CONFIG_PCI),yyy)
 # Lots of the fsdev/9pcode is pulled in by vl.c via qemu_fsdev_add.

configure

@@ -3036,9 +3036,13 @@ fi
 ##########################################
 # check and set a backend for coroutine
 
-# default is ucontext, but always fallback to gthread
-# windows autodetected by make
-if test "$coroutine" = "" -o "$coroutine" = "ucontext"; then
+# We prefer ucontext, but it's not always possible. The fallback
+# is sigcontext. gthread is not selectable except explicitly, because
+# it is not functional enough to run QEMU proper. (It is occasionally
+# useful for debugging purposes.)  On Windows the only valid backend
+# is the Windows-specific one.
+
+ucontext_works=no
 if test "$darwin" != "yes"; then
   cat > $TMPC << EOF
 #include <ucontext.h>
@@ -3048,22 +3052,51 @@ if test "$coroutine" = "" -o "$coroutine" = "ucontext"; then
 int main(void) { makecontext(0, 0, 0); return 0; }
 EOF
   if compile_prog "" "" ; then
-        coroutine_backend=ucontext
-    else
-	coroutine_backend=gthread
+    ucontext_works=yes
   fi
 fi
-elif test "$coroutine" = "gthread" ; then
-  coroutine_backend=gthread
-elif test "$coroutine" = "windows" ; then
-  coroutine_backend=windows
-elif test "$coroutine" = "sigaltstack" ; then
-  coroutine_backend=sigaltstack
+
+if test "$coroutine" = ""; then
+  if test "$mingw32" = "yes"; then
+    coroutine=win32
+  elif test "$ucontext_works" = "yes"; then
+    coroutine=ucontext
   else
+    coroutine=sigaltstack
+  fi
+else
+  case $coroutine in
+  windows)
+    if test "$mingw32" != "yes"; then
+      echo
+      echo "Error: 'windows' coroutine backend only valid for Windows"
+      echo
+      exit 1
+    fi
+    # Unfortunately the user visible backend name doesn't match the
+    # coroutine-*.c filename for this case, so we have to adjust it here.
+    coroutine=win32
+    ;;
+  ucontext)
+    if test "$ucontext_works" != "yes"; then
+      feature_not_found "ucontext"
+    fi
+    ;;
+  gthread|sigaltstack)
+    if test "$mingw32" = "yes"; then
+      echo
+      echo "Error: only the 'windows' coroutine backend is valid for Windows"
+      echo
+      exit 1
+    fi
+    ;;
+  *)
     echo
     echo "Error: unknown coroutine backend $coroutine"
     echo
     exit 1
+    ;;
+  esac
 fi
 
 ##########################################
@@ -3346,7 +3379,7 @@ echo "OpenGL support    $opengl"
 echo "libiscsi support  $libiscsi"
 echo "build guest agent $guest_agent"
 echo "seccomp support   $seccomp"
-echo "coroutine backend $coroutine_backend"
+echo "coroutine backend $coroutine"
 echo "GlusterFS support $glusterfs"
 echo "virtio-blk-data-plane $virtio_blk_data_plane"
 echo "gcov              $gcov_tool"
@@ -3669,11 +3702,7 @@ if test "$rbd" = "yes" ; then
   echo "CONFIG_RBD=y" >> $config_host_mak
 fi
 
-if test "$coroutine_backend" = "ucontext" ; then
-  echo "CONFIG_UCONTEXT_COROUTINE=y" >> $config_host_mak
-elif test "$coroutine_backend" = "sigaltstack" ; then
-  echo "CONFIG_SIGALTSTACK_COROUTINE=y" >> $config_host_mak
-fi
+echo "CONFIG_COROUTINE_BACKEND=$coroutine" >> $config_host_mak
 
 if test "$open_by_handle_at" = "yes" ; then
   echo "CONFIG_OPEN_BY_HANDLE=y" >> $config_host_mak

tests/Makefile

@@ -24,19 +24,7 @@ gcov-files-test-string-input-visitor-y = qapi/string-input-visitor.c
 check-unit-y += tests/test-string-output-visitor$(EXESUF)
 gcov-files-test-string-output-visitor-y = qapi/string-output-visitor.c
 check-unit-y += tests/test-coroutine$(EXESUF)
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_WIN32),y)
-gcov-files-test-coroutine-y = coroutine-win32.c
-else
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_UCONTEXT_COROUTINE),y)
-gcov-files-test-coroutine-y = coroutine-ucontext.c
-else
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_SIGALTSTACK_COROUTINE),y)
-gcov-files-test-coroutine-y = coroutine-sigaltstack.c
-else
-gcov-files-test-coroutine-y = coroutine-gthread.c
-endif
-endif
-endif
+gcov-files-test-coroutine-y = coroutine-$(CONFIG_COROUTINE_BACKEND).c
 check-unit-y += tests/test-visitor-serialization$(EXESUF)
 check-unit-y += tests/test-iov$(EXESUF)
 gcov-files-test-iov-y = util/iov.c