Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini-gitlab/tags/for-upstream' into staging

* New -action option and set-action QMP command (Alejandro)
* More vl.c cleanup (myself with help from Daniel and

Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/bonzini-gitlab/tags/for-upstream' into staging

* New -action option and set-action QMP command (Alejandro)
* More vl.c cleanup (myself with help from Daniel and Igor)
* Remove deprecated options (Philippe, Thomas)
* Dirty bitmap fix (Zenghui)
* icount caching speedup (Pavel)
* SCSI race fix (Maxim)
* Remove pre-GCC 4.8 code (Marc-André)

# gpg: Signature made Tue 15 Dec 2020 17:53:24 GMT
# gpg: using RSA key F13338574B662389866C7682BFFBD25F78C7AE83
# gpg: issuer "pbonzini@redhat.com"
# gpg: Good signature from "Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>" [full]
# gpg: aka "Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>" [full]
# Primary key fingerprint: 46F5 9FBD 57D6 12E7 BFD4 E2F7 7E15 100C CD36 69B1
# Subkey fingerprint: F133 3857 4B66 2389 866C 7682 BFFB D25F 78C7 AE83

* remotes/bonzini-gitlab/tags/for-upstream: (45 commits)
build: -no-pie is no functional linker flag
scripts/git.orderfile: Keep files with .inc extension sorted
compiler.h: remove QEMU_GNUC_PREREQ
linux-user: remove GNUC check
compiler: remove GNUC check
xen: remove GNUC check
poison: remove GNUC check
compiler.h: explicit case for Clang printf attribute
virtiofsd: replace _Static_assert with QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON
tests: remove GCC < 4 fallbacks
qemu-plugin.h: remove GCC < 4
compiler.h: remove GCC < 3 __builtin_expect fallback
accel/tcg: Remove special case for GCC < 4.6
qemu/atomic: Drop special case for unsupported compiler
hw/core: Restrict 'fw-path-provider.c' to system mode emulation
docs: set CONFDIR when running sphinx
vl: rename local variable in configure_accelerators
qemu-option: pass QemuOptsList to opts_accepts_any
qemu-option: simplify search for end of key
kvm: Take into account the unaligned section size when preparing bitmap
...

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

# Conflicts:
# softmmu/vl.c

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remove preconfig state

The preconfig state is only used if -incoming is not specified, which
makes the RunState state machine more tricky than it need be. However
there is already an equivalent con

remove preconfig state

The preconfig state is only used if -incoming is not specified, which
makes the RunState state machine more tricky than it need be. However
there is already an equivalent condition which works even with -incoming,
namely qdev_hotplug. Use it instead of a separate runstate.

Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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