Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Enhance debugging support - 4th take

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

I had a quick look at the patch serie (I don't have the time to look at
it carefully). I find the patch globally acceptable, but I have two remarks:

- Patch 01/12 may introduce a performance regression due to the change
in tb_find_fast(). If gcc does not optimizes the code correctly, your
change will introduce many unneeded memory accesses and a call to
memcmp() in the fast path, which is not acceptable.
- Patch 12/12 needs improvements (load/save VM) and possibly more
analysis to see if it complies with the x86 spec, so it could be applied
later.

Regards,

Fabrice.

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Yet another round for the gdbstub and debug regs patches.
> 
> This version addresses the concerns about the next_cflags approach
> brought up by Fabrice and Glauber. Instead of this, the first patch in
> this series takes an alternative path to obtain the required parameters
> for TB generation, see its description for details.
> 
> Besides rebasing the series on top of this patch and the latest changes
> in SVN, I addressed Glauber's review comments on take 3 (proper
> description for patch 4, introduce CPUWatchpoint.len_mask directly).
> 
> Jan
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