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    "date": "2017-09-13T09:53:43",
    "name": "[v6,00/22] instrument: Add basic event instrumentation",
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        "name": "Lluís Vilanova",
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        "From": "=?utf-8?b?TGx1w61z?= Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>",
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        "Subject": "[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/22] instrument: Add basic event\n\tinstrumentation",
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    "content": "This series adds an API to add instrumentation events.\n\nIt also provides additional APIs for:\n* Controlling tracing events.\n* Peek/poke guest memory.\n\nTODO:\n* Replace qi_event_gen_* with generating calls to arbitrary functions (e.g.,\n  qi_event_gen_call(num_args, va_list)).\n* Flush all TBs when an execution-time event is unset (to ensure it won't be\n  called in the future).\n* Flush all TBs when a translation-time event is set (to ensure no future events\n  will be lost).\n\nUndecided:\n* Alternatively to the two last points above, provide an API to request a TB\n  flush (much more flexible and can be more efficient, but requires instrumentor\n  to clearly know differences between translation and execution).\n* Pass a user-provided pointer to events (i.e., to avoid using global\n  variables).\n* Provide something like tracing's per-vCPU trace states (i.e., so that each\n  vCPU can have different instrumentation code). Useful mainly for sampling\n  (enable/disable instrumentation multiple times without re-translating guest\n  code) and more complex use cases like tracing a guest process in softmmu mode.\n  It's still not clear to me if we should extend the per-vCPU bitmap with\n  instrumentation events, or otherwise somehow reuse the bits in tracing events\n  (since they're currently limited).\n* Allow multiple callbacks per event (both to support multiple callbacks\n  installed by a library, and multiple libraries at the same time).\n* Allow instr libraries to iterate on the list of guest CPUs (info is already\n  available through guest_cpu_enter/guest_cpu_exit, but forces libs to be\n  prepared for hot-plugging guest CPUs).\n\nFuture APIs (for later series):\n* Peek/poke guest registers.\n* Add breakpoints to trigger instrumentation functions.\n* Trigger instrumentation functions from guest code (former hypertrace).\n* Add events for guest code translation/execution (once the respective tracing\n  events are accepted upstream).\n* Add events for exceptions/syscalls.\n* Add events for TB invalidation (necessary for libraries to deallocate any data\n  they might have allocated for the TBs they instrumented).\n\nThe instrumentation code is dynamically loaded as a library into QEMU either\nwhen it starts or later using its remote control interfaces. The loaded code\nonly has access to function explicitly exported through the QI_VPUBLIC macro.\n\nThis series is branch 'devel-instrument' in\nhttps://code.gso.ac.upc.edu/git/qemu-dbi.\n\nSigned-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>\n---\n\nChanges in v6\n=============\n\n* Fix a minor style warning.\n* Fix a minor compilation error.\n\n\nChanges in v5\n=============\n\n* Rebase on fcea73709b.\n* Minor changes to pass checkpatch.\n* Fix symbol availability to external libraries by adding missing default symbol\n  visibility flag.\n* Use a string to identify instrumentation handles [Markus Armbruster].\n* Use stubs for command line initialization.\n* Use stubs to signal unsupported QAPI commands [Markus Armbruster].\n* Use error messages instead of codes in QAPI commands [Markus Armbruster].\n* Move symbol visibility macros to internal \"qemu/compiler.h\" header.\n* Trigger event 'guest_cpu_enter' when library is loaded.\n* Trigger event 'guest_cpu_exit' and flush TBs when library is unloaded.\n* Rename instr_cpu_get/instr_cpu_set into clearer\n  instr_cpu_to_qicpu/instr_cpu_from_qicpu.\n* Rename handle_get/handle_put to clearer handle_new/handle_destroy.\n* Ensure qi_event_set_* are called only on the proper mode and targets.\n\n\nChanges in v4\n=============\n\n* Add missing stub function.\n\n\nChanges in v3\n=============\n\n* Use a separate event set for instrumentation (i.e., do not instrument tracing\n  events) [Stefan Hajnoczi].\n* Add API for peek/poke guest memory.\n\n\nChanges in v2\n=============\n\n* Update QEMU version in QAPI [Eric Blake].\n* Clarify 'msg' result in QAPI is for humans only.\n* Make 'msg' and 'handle' results optional in QAPI.\n* Use a list of 'str' in 'instr-load' QAPI command.\n* Update MAINTAINERS.\n* Add macros for error-reporting in API.\n\n\nLluís Vilanova (22):\n      instrument: Add documentation\n      instrument: Add configure-time flag\n      instrument: Add generic library loader\n      instrument: [linux-user] Add command line library loader\n      instrument: [bsd-user] Add command line library loader\n      instrument: [softmmu] Add command line library loader\n      instrument: [qapi] Add library loader\n      instrument: [hmp] Add library loader\n      instrument: Add basic control interface\n      instrument: Add support for tracing events\n      instrument: Track vCPUs\n      instrument: Add event 'guest_cpu_enter'\n      instrument: Support synchronous modification of vCPU state\n      exec: Add function to synchronously flush TB on a stopped vCPU\n      instrument: Add event 'guest_cpu_exit'\n      instrument: Add event 'guest_cpu_reset'\n      trace: Introduce a proper structure to describe memory accesses\n      instrument: Add event 'guest_mem_before_trans'\n      instrument: Add event 'guest_mem_before_exec'\n      instrument: Add event 'guest_user_syscall'\n      instrument: Add event 'guest_user_syscall_ret'\n      instrument: Add API to manipulate guest memory\n\n\n .gitignore                                |    1 \n MAINTAINERS                               |    8 +\n Makefile                                  |    8 +\n Makefile.objs                             |    4 +\n Makefile.target                           |    1 \n accel/stubs/tcg-stub.c                    |    3 \n accel/tcg/translate-all.c                 |    7 +\n bsd-user/main.c                           |   17 ++\n bsd-user/syscall.c                        |   14 ++\n configure                                 |   13 ++\n cpus-common.c                             |    9 +\n docs/instrument.txt                       |  173 ++++++++++++++++++++++\n hmp-commands.hx                           |   32 ++++\n include/exec/cpu_ldst_template.h          |   19 +-\n include/exec/cpu_ldst_useronly_template.h |   19 +-\n include/exec/exec-all.h                   |    1 \n include/exec/helper-gen.h                 |    1 \n include/exec/helper-proto.h               |    1 \n include/exec/helper-tcg.h                 |    1 \n include/qemu/compiler.h                   |   19 ++\n instrument/Makefile.objs                  |    8 +\n instrument/cmdline.c                      |  128 ++++++++++++++++\n instrument/cmdline.h                      |   51 ++++++\n instrument/control.c                      |  228 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n instrument/control.h                      |  153 +++++++++++++++++++\n instrument/control.inc.h                  |   67 +++++++++\n instrument/error.h                        |   34 ++++\n instrument/events.h                       |   86 +++++++++++\n instrument/events.inc.h                   |  109 ++++++++++++++\n instrument/helpers.h                      |    2 \n instrument/load.c                         |  210 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n instrument/load.h                         |   88 +++++++++++\n instrument/qemu-instr/control.h           |  177 +++++++++++++++++++++++\n instrument/qemu-instr/state.h             |  104 +++++++++++++\n instrument/qemu-instr/types.h             |  115 +++++++++++++++\n instrument/qemu-instr/types.inc.h         |   15 ++\n instrument/qmp.c                          |   82 ++++++++++\n instrument/state.c                        |   73 +++++++++\n instrument/trace.c                        |  125 ++++++++++++++++\n linux-user/main.c                         |   21 +++\n linux-user/syscall.c                      |    7 +\n monitor.c                                 |   43 +++++\n qapi-schema.json                          |    3 \n qapi/instrument.json                      |   49 ++++++\n qemu-options.hx                           |   19 ++\n qom/cpu.c                                 |    2 \n stubs/Makefile.objs                       |    1 \n stubs/instrument.c                        |   73 +++++++++\n tcg/tcg-op.c                              |   27 ++-\n trace/control-target.c                    |    2 \n trace/control.c                           |    4 -\n trace/control.h                           |   24 +++\n trace/mem-internal.h                      |   22 ++-\n trace/mem.h                               |    8 +\n vl.c                                      |   15 ++\n 55 files changed, 2486 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 docs/instrument.txt\n create mode 100644 instrument/Makefile.objs\n create mode 100644 instrument/cmdline.c\n create mode 100644 instrument/cmdline.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/control.c\n create mode 100644 instrument/control.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/control.inc.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/error.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/events.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/events.inc.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/helpers.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/load.c\n create mode 100644 instrument/load.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/qemu-instr/control.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/qemu-instr/state.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/qemu-instr/types.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/qemu-instr/types.inc.h\n create mode 100644 instrument/qmp.c\n create mode 100644 instrument/state.c\n create mode 100644 instrument/trace.c\n create mode 100644 qapi/instrument.json\n create mode 100644 stubs/instrument.c\n\n\nTo: qemu-devel@nongnu.org\nCc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>\nCc: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>\nCc: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>\nCc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>"
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