Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/ehabkost/tags/x86-pull-request' into staging

x86 and memory backends queue, 2016-09-05

This includes a few features that were submitted just after hard
freeze, and a bug fix for memory backend initialization ordering.

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* remotes/ehabkost/tags/x86-pull-request:
  vl: Delay initialization of memory backends
  vhost-user-test: Use libqos instead of pxe-virtio.rom
  target-i386: Add more Intel AVX-512 instructions support
  exec: Ensure the only one cpu_index allocation method is used

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index b3c80d5077..ee557a1d3f 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2810,6 +2810,19 @@ static bool object_create_initial(const char *type)
         return false;
     }
 
+    /* Memory allocation by backends needs to be done
+     * after configure_accelerator() (due to the tcg_enabled()
+     * checks at memory_region_init_*()).
+     *
+     * Also, allocation of large amounts of memory may delay
+     * chardev initialization for too long, and trigger timeouts
+     * on software that waits for a monitor socket to be created
+     * (e.g. libvirt).
+     */
+    if (g_str_has_prefix(type, "memory-backend-")) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
     return true;
 }