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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: Trace emulated instructions
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:38:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBA5838.6080603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100405184438.GA7141@amt.cnet>

On 04/05/2010 09:44 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 05:02:56PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> Log emulated instructions in ftrace, especially if they failed.
>>      
> Why not log all emulated instructions? Seems useful to me.
>
>    

That was the intent, but it didn't pan out.  I tried to avoid 
double-logging where an mmio read is dispatched to userspace, and the 
instruction is re-executed.

Perhaps we should split it into a decode trace and execution result 
trace?  Less easy to use but avoids confusion due to duplication.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-05 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-25 15:02 [PATCH 0/2] Trace emulated instrucions Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 15:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86 emulator: Don't overwrite decode cache Avi Kivity
2010-03-25 15:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: Trace emulated instructions Avi Kivity
2010-04-05 18:44   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-04-05 21:38     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-04-06 18:52       ` Marcelo Tosatti
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-11 10:05 [PATCH v2 0/2] Trace emulated instrucions Avi Kivity
2010-04-11 10:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: Trace emulated instructions Avi Kivity

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