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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: "Lluís Vilanova" <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] tcg: Add support for "inlining" regions of code
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:09:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <169db8d7-fe49-05c4-aca7-ad818b12c9c5@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150506083546.19604.543091497330269756.stgit@frigg.lan>

On 09/10/2017 09:27 AM, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
> TCG BBLs and instructions have multiple exit points from where to raise
> tracing events, but some of the necessary information in the generic
> disassembly infrastructure is not available until after generating these
> exit points.
> 
> This patch adds support for "inline points" (where the tracing code will
> be placed), and "inline regions" (which identify the TCG code that must
> be inlined). The TCG compiler will basically copy each inline region to
> any inline points that reference it.

I am not keen on this.

Is there a reason you can't just emit the tracing code at the appropriate place
to begin with?  Perhaps I have to wait to see how this is used...


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-13 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-10 16:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] trace: Add guest code events Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-10 16:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] trace: Add event "guest_bbl_before" Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-13 16:59   ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-14 14:21     ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-10 16:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] trace: Add event "guest_inst_before" Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-13 17:02   ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-14 14:40     ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-10 16:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] trace: Add event "guest_inst_info_before" Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-13 17:07   ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-14 14:59     ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-14 16:12       ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-10 16:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] tcg: Add support for "inlining" regions of code Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-13 17:09   ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2017-09-14 15:20     ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-14 16:15       ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-15 12:55         ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-26 16:31           ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-26 16:52             ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-10 16:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] trace: Add event "guest_bbl_after" Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-13 17:34   ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-14 15:20     ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-14 16:16       ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-10 16:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] trace: Add event "guest_inst_after" Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-13 18:01   ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-14 16:23     ` Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-10 16:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] trace: Add event "guest_inst_info_after" Lluís Vilanova
2017-09-13 18:03   ` Richard Henderson
2017-09-10 16:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] trace: Add guest code events no-reply
2017-09-13 14:36   ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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