[RFC PATCH] tcg/plugins: enable by default for TCG builds

[Alex Bennée]

Aside from a minor bloat to file size the ability to have TCG plugins
has no real impact on performance unless a plugin is actively loaded.
Even then the libempty.so plugin shows only a minor degradation in
performance caused by the extra book keeping the TCG has to do to keep
track of instructions. As it's a useful feature lets just enable it by
default and reduce our testing matrix a little.

Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
 docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst |  3 ++-
 configure                  |  2 +-
 .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 23 -----------------------
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
index 18c6581d85..0cd77c77d2 100644
--- a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ API
 Usage
 =====
 
-The QEMU binary needs to be compiled for plugin support::
+Any QEMU binary with TCG support has plugins enabled by default.
+Earlier releases needed to be explicitly enabled with::
 
   configure --enable-plugins
 
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 38704b4e11..9f7161e26c 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ libxml2="$default_feature"
 debug_mutex="no"
 libpmem="$default_feature"
 default_devices="true"
-plugins="no"
+plugins="$default_feature"
 fuzzing="no"
 rng_none="no"
 secret_keyring="$default_feature"
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
index d9b834c848..89df51517c 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml
@@ -354,29 +354,6 @@ build-some-softmmu:
     TARGETS: xtensa-softmmu arm-softmmu aarch64-softmmu alpha-softmmu
     MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-tcg
 
-# Run check-tcg against linux-user (with plugins)
-# we skip sparc64-linux-user until it has been fixed somewhat
-# we skip cris-linux-user as it doesn't use the common run loop
-build-user-plugins:
-  extends: .native_build_job_template
-  needs:
-    job: amd64-debian-user-cross-container
-  variables:
-    IMAGE: debian-all-test-cross
-    CONFIGURE_ARGS: --disable-tools --disable-system --enable-plugins 
--enable-debug-tcg --target-list-exclude=sparc64-linux-user,cris-linux-user
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-tcg
-  timeout: 1h 30m
-
-build-some-softmmu-plugins:
-  extends: .native_build_job_template
-  needs:
-    job: amd64-debian-user-cross-container
-  variables:
-    IMAGE: debian-all-test-cross
-    CONFIGURE_ARGS: --disable-tools --disable-user --enable-plugins 
--enable-debug-tcg
-    TARGETS: xtensa-softmmu arm-softmmu aarch64-softmmu alpha-softmmu
-    MAKE_CHECK_ARGS: check-tcg
-
 clang-system:
   extends: .native_build_job_template
   needs:
-- 
2.20.1