Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG questions
Xin Tong writes: i do not know. could be similar. I am doing architecture research. i need traces of memory access for programming running under a full system environment, so i wrote this. i do nto seem to be able to access the linked provided from the link you give me though. https://projects.gso.ac.upc.edu/projects/qemu-dbi/wiki Well, if you tried to access it during the last few days, we've been having some issues with the server. It should all work now. The main idea is to have an API similar in spirit to that of PIN [1]. You can have a look at the instrumentation docs [2] for some simple examples. I had some plans to modify QEMU's address translation mechanism to provide a performant mechanism to retrieve physical addresses (traces of virtual addresses are already supported), but that will have to wait until I finish some other unrelated tasks. [1] http://pintool.org [2] https://projects.gso.ac.upc.edu/projects/qemu-dbi/repository/entry/docs/instrumentation.txt#L202 Lluis On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:52 PM, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) che...@iis.sinica.edu.tw wrote: I have created a set of instrument API on QEMU. one can write client programs that compile into shared library. the shared library is then loaded into qemu and extract statistics out of QEMU. Instrument API? Same as what Liuis did? Regards, chenwj [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-09/msg00379.html -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj -- And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer. -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth
Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG questions
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Lluís Vilanova vilan...@ac.upc.edu wrote: Xin Tong writes: i do not know. could be similar. I am doing architecture research. i need traces of memory access for programming running under a full system environment, so i wrote this. i do nto seem to be able to access the linked provided from the link you give me though. https://projects.gso.ac.upc.edu/projects/qemu-dbi/wiki Well, if you tried to access it during the last few days, we've been having some issues with the server. It should all work now. The main idea is to have an API similar in spirit to that of PIN [1]. You can have a look at the instrumentation docs [2] for some simple examples. I had some plans to modify QEMU's address translation mechanism to provide a performant mechanism to retrieve physical addresses (traces of virtual addresses are already supported), but that will have to wait until I finish some other unrelated tasks. [1] http://pintool.org [2] https://projects.gso.ac.upc.edu/projects/qemu-dbi/repository/entry/docs/instrumentation.txt#L202 By the way Luis. this is exactly what i am doing. i am writing up a ISPASS paper for this as well. I am also using PIN to verify the instrumentation interface. Xin Lluis On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:52 PM, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) che...@iis.sinica.edu.tw wrote: I have created a set of instrument API on QEMU. one can write client programs that compile into shared library. the shared library is then loaded into qemu and extract statistics out of QEMU. Instrument API? Same as what Liuis did? Regards, chenwj [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-09/msg00379.html -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj -- And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer. -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth
Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG questions
I have the code on http://code.google.com/p/qemu-trace/. I currently have memory trace, branch trace and some special instructions traces ready ( unverified though). we should discuss about what is the best way to do this btw. Xin On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Xin Tong xerox.time.t...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Lluís Vilanova vilan...@ac.upc.edu wrote: Xin Tong writes: i do not know. could be similar. I am doing architecture research. i need traces of memory access for programming running under a full system environment, so i wrote this. i do nto seem to be able to access the linked provided from the link you give me though. https://projects.gso.ac.upc.edu/projects/qemu-dbi/wiki Well, if you tried to access it during the last few days, we've been having some issues with the server. It should all work now. The main idea is to have an API similar in spirit to that of PIN [1]. You can have a look at the instrumentation docs [2] for some simple examples. I had some plans to modify QEMU's address translation mechanism to provide a performant mechanism to retrieve physical addresses (traces of virtual addresses are already supported), but that will have to wait until I finish some other unrelated tasks. [1] http://pintool.org [2] https://projects.gso.ac.upc.edu/projects/qemu-dbi/repository/entry/docs/instrumentation.txt#L202 By the way Luis. this is exactly what i am doing. i am writing up a ISPASS paper for this as well. I am also using PIN to verify the instrumentation interface. Xin Lluis On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:52 PM, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) che...@iis.sinica.edu.tw wrote: I have created a set of instrument API on QEMU. one can write client programs that compile into shared library. the shared library is then loaded into qemu and extract statistics out of QEMU. Instrument API? Same as what Liuis did? Regards, chenwj [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-09/msg00379.html -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj -- And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer. -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth
Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG questions
On 09/10/2012 08:17 PM, Xin Tong wrote: I have 2 questions about TCGv. 1. if DEBUG is enabled on TCGv, TCGv is wrapped in a C struct. and would it not be very expensive to pass TCGv by copy for all the tcg_gen_xxx functions.i.e. tcg_gen_mov_tl(cpu_cc_src, cpu_T[1]); No. The compiler is (generally) able to look through a struct with a single member. 2. I have created some files that need to include tcg-op.h and cpu.h ( i use TCGv in the files). since cpu.h are architecture specific. what do i put as the include path and how i should organize the files so that the correct architecture specific cpu.h gets picked up. i tried many things. but it seems none of them works very well. You've not provided enough details to give a meaningful answer. r~
Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG questions
On 11 September 2012 17:12, Richard Henderson r...@twiddle.net wrote: On 09/10/2012 08:17 PM, Xin Tong wrote: 1. if DEBUG is enabled on TCGv, TCGv is wrapped in a C struct. and would it not be very expensive to pass TCGv by copy for all the tcg_gen_xxx functions.i.e. tcg_gen_mov_tl(cpu_cc_src, cpu_T[1]); No. The compiler is (generally) able to look through a struct with a single member. ...and in any case if you've enabled debug you have explicitly said you are more interested in catching bugs than in raw performance. -- PMM
Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG questions
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Richard Henderson r...@twiddle.net wrote: On 09/10/2012 08:17 PM, Xin Tong wrote: I have 2 questions about TCGv. 1. if DEBUG is enabled on TCGv, TCGv is wrapped in a C struct. and would it not be very expensive to pass TCGv by copy for all the tcg_gen_xxx functions.i.e. tcg_gen_mov_tl(cpu_cc_src, cpu_T[1]); No. The compiler is (generally) able to look through a struct with a single member. 2. I have created some files that need to include tcg-op.h and cpu.h ( i use TCGv in the files). since cpu.h are architecture specific. what do i put as the include path and how i should organize the files so that the correct architecture specific cpu.h gets picked up. i tried many things. but it seems none of them works very well. You've not provided enough details to give a meaningful answer. I have created a set of instrument API on QEMU. one can write client programs that compile into shared library. the shared library is then loaded into qemu and extract statistics out of QEMU. Basically when QEMU translates the guest ISA to emulation code. it pushes some of the value (i.e. virt address, phys address of a memory access) of interested into a structure in the CPUState. Some of the files in the instrumentation module depends on TCGv. i just want to find a way to include the tcg-op.h. it is not easy as it is architecture dependent. Xin r~
Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG questions
On 09/11/2012 03:56 PM, Xin Tong wrote: Some of the files in the instrumentation module depends on TCGv. i just want to find a way to include the tcg-op.h. it is not easy as it is architecture dependent. It's not. Look at some of the other files in tcg/. r~
Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG questions
I have created a set of instrument API on QEMU. one can write client programs that compile into shared library. the shared library is then loaded into qemu and extract statistics out of QEMU. Instrument API? Same as what Liuis did? Regards, chenwj [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-09/msg00379.html -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj
Re: [Qemu-devel] TCG questions
i do not know. could be similar. I am doing architecture research. i need traces of memory access for programming running under a full system environment, so i wrote this. i do nto seem to be able to access the linked provided from the link you give me though. https://projects.gso.ac.upc.edu/projects/qemu-dbi/wiki Xin On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:52 PM, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) che...@iis.sinica.edu.tw wrote: I have created a set of instrument API on QEMU. one can write client programs that compile into shared library. the shared library is then loaded into qemu and extract statistics out of QEMU. Instrument API? Same as what Liuis did? Regards, chenwj [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-09/msg00379.html -- Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任) Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.) Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667 Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj
[Qemu-devel] TCG questions
I have 2 questions about TCGv. 1. if DEBUG is enabled on TCGv, TCGv is wrapped in a C struct. and would it not be very expensive to pass TCGv by copy for all the tcg_gen_xxx functions.i.e. tcg_gen_mov_tl(cpu_cc_src, cpu_T[1]); 2. I have created some files that need to include tcg-op.h and cpu.h ( i use TCGv in the files). since cpu.h are architecture specific. what do i put as the include path and how i should organize the files so that the correct architecture specific cpu.h gets picked up. i tried many things. but it seems none of them works very well. Thank you very much Xin
