SimPoint is a widely used tool to find the ideal microarchitecture
simulation points so Valgrind[2] and Pin[3] support generating basic
block vectors for use with them. Let's add a corresponding plugin to
QEMU too.
Note that this plugin has a different goal with tests/plugin/bb.c.
This plugin creates a vector for each constant interval instead of
counting the execution of basic blocks for the entire run and able to
describe the change of execution behavior. Its output is also
syntactically simple and better suited for parsing, while the output of
tests/plugin/bb.c is more human-readable.
[1] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~calder/simpoint/
[2] https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/bbv-manual.html
[3] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/pin-a-dynamic-binary-instrumentation-tool.html
Signed-off-by: Yotaro Nada <yotaro.nada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240816-bb-v3-1-b9aa4a5c75c5@daynix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240916085400.1046925-16-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
The CRIS target is deprecated since v9.0 (commit c7bbef4023
"docs: mark CRIS support as deprecated").
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@amd.com>
Message-ID: <20240904143603.52934-14-philmd@linaro.org>
Reflect recent changes on API (inline ops) and new plugins.
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240812231945.169310-1-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240813202329.1237572-21-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
The devel section is getting quite messy with the breakdown of the
example plugins which should be usable by users. As we mention plugins
in the emulation section along with semihosting move the overview
there leaving the development section about the details of writing
plugins.
While we are at make the headings nicer and convert the option lists
into nicely formatted tables.
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240729144414.830369-11-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Tested-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Message-Id: <20240718133312.10324-20-philmd@linaro.org>
The Nios II target is deprecated since v8.2 in commit 9997771bc1
("target/nios2: Deprecate the Nios II architecture").
Remove:
- Buildsys / CI infra
- User emulation
- System emulation (10m50-ghrd & nios2-generic-nommu machines)
- Tests
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Message-Id: <20240327144806.11319-3-philmd@linaro.org>
A surprising feature of calls like SYS_READC is this can cause QEMU to
indefinitely block as there is no handling for EOF.
Clarifies: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1963
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20231120150833.2552739-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Duplicated word "are".
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Yang <sledgeh4w@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230511080119.99018-1-sledgeh4w@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The main reason to do this is to document our O_BINARY implementation
decision somewhere. However I've also moved some of the implementation
details out of qemu-options and added links between the two. As a
bonus I've highlighted the scary warnings about host access with the
appropriate RST tags.
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This affects both system and user mode emulation so we should probably
list it up front.
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230124180127.1881110-21-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Rowan Hart