This adds simple instruction matching to the libinsn.so plugin which
is useful for examining the execution distance between instructions.
For example to track how often we flush in ARM due to TLB updates:
-plugin ./tests/plugin/libinsn.so,match=tlbi
which leads to output like this:
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5702 hits, 31825 match hits, Δ+8112 since last match, 68859 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5703 hits, 56593 match hits, Δ+17712125 since last match, 33455 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5704 hits, 56594 match hits, Δ+12689 since last match, 33454 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5705 hits, 56595 match hits, Δ+12585 since last match, 33454 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5706 hits, 56596 match hits, Δ+10491 since last match, 33454 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5707 hits, 56597 match hits, Δ+4721 since last match, 33453 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5708 hits, 56598 match hits, Δ+10733 since last match, 33453 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5709 hits, 56599 match hits, Δ+61959 since last match, 33453 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5710 hits, 56600 match hits, Δ+55235 since last match, 33454 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5711 hits, 56601 match hits, Δ+54373 since last match, 33454 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5712 hits, 56602 match hits, Δ+2705 since last match, 33453 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5713 hits, 56603 match hits, Δ+17262 since last match, 33453 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5714 hits, 56604 match hits, Δ+17206 since last match, 33453 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5715 hits, 56605 match hits, Δ+28940 since last match, 33453 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5716 hits, 56606 match hits, Δ+7370 since last match, 33452 avg insns/match
0xffffffc01019a918, 'tlbi vale1is, x1', 5717 hits, 56607 match hits, Δ+7066 since last match, 33452 avg insns/match
showing we do some sort of TLBI invalidation every 33 thousand
instructions.
Cc: Vasilev Oleg <vasilev.oleg@huawei.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Emilio Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20220204204335.1689602-25-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
We won't go fully flexible but for most system emulation 8 vCPUs
resolution should be enough for anybody ;-)
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20220204204335.1689602-24-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This is mostly a convenience feature for identifying frontends that do
multiple repeat loads so I can test changes to the instruction
tracking interface.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20211026102234.3961636-20-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Made argument "inline" not positional, this has two benefits. First is
that we adhere to how QEMU passes args generally, by taking the last
value of an argument and drop the others. And the second is that this
sets up a framework for potentially adding new args easily.
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210730135817.17816-11-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
[AJB: fix check-tcg tests calling arg=inline]
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
A duplicate insn is one that is appears to be executed twice in a row.
This is currently possible due to -icount and cpu_io_recompile()
causing a re-translation of a block. On it's own this won't trigger
any tests though.
The heuristics that the plugin use can't deal with the x86 rep
instruction which (validly) will look like executing the same
instruction several times. To avoid problems later we tweak the rules
for x86 to run the "inline" version of the plugin. This also has the
advantage of increasing coverage of the plugin code (see bugfix in
previous commit).
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210213130325.14781-15-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
According to the glibc function requirements, we need initialise
the variable. Otherwise there will be compilation warnings:
glib-autocleanups.h:28:3: warning: ‘out’ may be
used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
g_free (*pp);
^~~~~~~~~~~~
Reported-by: Euler Robot <euler.robot@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Qun <kuhn.chenqun@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200206093238.203984-1-kuhn.chenqun@huawei.com>
[AJB: uses Thomas's single line allocation]
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200225124710.14152-13-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This is a very simple versioning API which allows the plugin
infrastructure to check the API a plugin was built against. We also
expose a min/cur API version to the plugin via the info block in case
it wants to avoid using old deprecated APIs in the future.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Foley <robert.foley@linaro.org>
Pass arguments with -plugin=libfoo.so,arg=bar,arg=baz
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Alex Bennée
Mahmoud Mandour
Chen Qun
Emilio G. Cota