qemu-user can hang in a multi-threaded fork. One common
reason is that when creating a TB, between fork and exec
we manipulate a GTree whose memory allocator (GSlice) is
not fork-safe.
Although POSIX does not mandate it, the system's allocator
(e.g. tcmalloc, libc malloc) is probably fork-safe.
Fix some of these hangs by using QTree, which uses the system's
allocator regardless of the Glib version that we used at
configuration time.
Tested with the test program in the original bug report, i.e.:
The only reason to add this implementation is to control the memory allocator
used. Some users (e.g. TCG) cannot work reliably in multi-threaded
environments (e.g. forking in user-mode) with GTree's allocator, GSlice.
See https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/285 for details.
Importing GTree is a temporary workaround until GTree migrates away
from GSlice.
This implementation is identical to that in glib v2.75.0, except that
we don't import recent additions to the API nor deprecated API calls,
none of which are used in QEMU.
I've imported tests from glib and added a benchmark just to
make sure that performance is similar. Note: it cannot be identical
because (1) we are not using GSlice, (2) we use different compilation flags
(e.g. -fPIC) and (3) we're linking statically.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep 'model name' | head -1
model name : AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U with Radeon Graphics
$ echo '0' | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost
$ tests/bench/qtree-bench
