+bool mttcg_enabled;
+
+/*
+ * We default to false if we know other options have been enabled
+ * which are currently incompatible with MTTCG. Otherwise when each
+ * guest (target) has been updated to support:
+ * - atomic instructions
+ * - memory ordering primitives (barriers)
+ * they can set the appropriate CONFIG flags in ${target}-softmmu.mak
+ *
+ * Once a guest architecture has been converted to the new primitives
+ * there are two remaining limitations to check.
+ *
+ * - The guest can't be oversized (e.g. 64 bit guest on 32 bit host)
+ * - The host must have a stronger memory order than the guest
+ *
+ * It may be possible in future to support strong guests on weak hosts
+ * but that will require tagging all load/stores in a guest with their
+ * implicit memory order requirements which would likely slow things
+ * down a lot.
+ */
+
+static bool check_tcg_memory_orders_compatible(void)
+{
+#if defined(TCG_GUEST_DEFAULT_MO) && defined(TCG_TARGET_DEFAULT_MO)
+ return (TCG_GUEST_DEFAULT_MO & ~TCG_TARGET_DEFAULT_MO) == 0;
+#else
+ return false;
+#endif
+}
+
+static bool default_mttcg_enabled(void)
+{
+ if (use_icount || TCG_OVERSIZED_GUEST) {
+ return false;
+ } else {
+#ifdef TARGET_SUPPORTS_MTTCG
+ return check_tcg_memory_orders_compatible();
+#else
+ return false;
+#endif
+ }
+}
+
+void qemu_tcg_configure(QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp)
+{
+ const char *t = qemu_opt_get(opts, "thread");
+ if (t) {
+ if (strcmp(t, "multi") == 0) {
+ if (TCG_OVERSIZED_GUEST) {
+ error_setg(errp, "No MTTCG when guest word size > hosts");
+ } else if (use_icount) {
+ error_setg(errp, "No MTTCG when icount is enabled");
+ } else {
+#ifndef TARGET_SUPPORTS_MTTCG
+ error_report("Guest not yet converted to MTTCG - "
+ "you may get unexpected results");
+#endif
+ if (!check_tcg_memory_orders_compatible()) {
+ error_report("Guest expects a stronger memory ordering "
+ "than the host provides");
+ error_printf("This may cause strange/hard to debug errors\n");
+ }
+ mttcg_enabled = true;
+ }
+ } else if (strcmp(t, "single") == 0) {
+ mttcg_enabled = false;
+ } else {
+ error_setg(errp, "Invalid 'thread' setting %s", t);
+ }
+ } else {
+ mttcg_enabled = default_mttcg_enabled();
+ }
+}
+
+/* The current number of executed instructions is based on what we
+ * originally budgeted minus the current state of the decrementing
+ * icount counters in extra/u16.low.
+ */
+static int64_t cpu_get_icount_executed(CPUState *cpu)
+{
+ return cpu->icount_budget - (cpu->icount_decr.u16.low + cpu->icount_extra);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Update the global shared timer_state.qemu_icount to take into
+ * account executed instructions. This is done by the TCG vCPU
+ * thread so the main-loop can see time has moved forward.
+ */
+void cpu_update_icount(CPUState *cpu)
+{
+ int64_t executed = cpu_get_icount_executed(cpu);
+ cpu->icount_budget -= executed;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_ATOMIC64
+ atomic_set__nocheck(&timers_state.qemu_icount,
+ atomic_read__nocheck(&timers_state.qemu_icount) +
+ executed);
+#else /* FIXME: we need 64bit atomics to do this safely */
+ timers_state.qemu_icount += executed;
+#endif
+}