From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH 2/4] kvm: Arch-specifc KVM_EXIT_DEBUG payload
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:59:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48357C4D.9070400@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4835782F.60804@web.de>
Jan Kiszka wrote:
>
>> We need to handle branch tracing and last branch recording as well. It
>> doesn't have to be in this patchset, though.
>>
>
> IIRC, both features are fairly vendor specific. Do we have the same
> level of support on both AMD and Intel CPUs? Moreover, I doubt that the
> debug interface would be the right place for them.
>
Branch tracing is common, and is very much related to debugging (it
modifies singlestep to trap only on branches, not on non-branching
insns). LBR is either common or very similar, and is also very
important for debugging.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-22 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <482D9198.7040801@web.de>
2008-05-16 16:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] qemu: refactor cpu_watch/breakpoint API Jan Kiszka
2008-05-16 16:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4] kvm: Arch-specifc KVM_EXIT_DEBUG payload Jan Kiszka
2008-05-21 15:59 ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 13:27 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-21 16:04 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 13:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-22 13:59 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-05-22 14:32 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-22 14:35 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-16 16:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] kvm-vmx: KVM_EXIT_DEBUG on #BP exceptions Jan Kiszka
2008-05-21 16:01 ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 13:31 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-22 13:58 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 14:24 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-22 14:31 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 14:26 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-05-22 14:34 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 18:27 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-05-25 10:24 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-16 16:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/4] kvm-userspace: use soft-BPs for guest debugging Jan Kiszka
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