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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>,
	libvir-list@redhat.com, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>,
	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 05/10] bsd-user: Add '-one-insn-per-tb' option equivalent to '-singlestep'
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 17:40:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230417164041.684562-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230417164041.684562-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>

The '-singlestep' option is confusing, because it doesn't actually
have anything to do with single-stepping the CPU. What it does do
is force TCG emulation to put one guest instruction in each TB,
which can be useful in some situations.

Create a new command line argument -one-insn-per-tb, so we can
document that -singlestep is just a deprecated synonym for it,
and eventually perhaps drop it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
---
 docs/user/main.rst | 7 ++++++-
 bsd-user/main.c    | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/user/main.rst b/docs/user/main.rst
index f9ac701f4b1..f4786353965 100644
--- a/docs/user/main.rst
+++ b/docs/user/main.rst
@@ -247,5 +247,10 @@ Debug options:
 ``-p pagesize``
    Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes
 
+``-one-insn-per-tb``
+   Run the emulation with one guest instruction per translation block.
+   This slows down emulation a lot, but can be useful in some situations,
+   such as when trying to analyse the logs produced by the ``-d`` option.
+
 ``-singlestep``
-   Run the emulation in single step mode.
+   This is a deprecated synonym for the ``-one-insn-per-tb`` option.
diff --git a/bsd-user/main.c b/bsd-user/main.c
index a9e5a127d38..cd8b2a670f7 100644
--- a/bsd-user/main.c
+++ b/bsd-user/main.c
@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ static void usage(void)
            "-d item1[,...]    enable logging of specified items\n"
            "                  (use '-d help' for a list of log items)\n"
            "-D logfile        write logs to 'logfile' (default stderr)\n"
-           "-singlestep       always run in singlestep mode\n"
+           "-one-insn-per-tb  run with one guest instruction per emulated TB\n"
+           "-singlestep       deprecated synonym for -one-insn-per-tb\n"
            "-strace           log system calls\n"
            "-trace            [[enable=]<pattern>][,events=<file>][,file=<file>]\n"
            "                  specify tracing options\n"
@@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
             (void) envlist_unsetenv(envlist, "LD_PRELOAD");
         } else if (!strcmp(r, "seed")) {
             seed_optarg = optarg;
-        } else if (!strcmp(r, "singlestep")) {
+        } else if (!strcmp(r, "singlestep") || !strcmp(r, "one-insn-per-tb")) {
             opt_one_insn_per_tb = true;
         } else if (!strcmp(r, "strace")) {
             do_strace = 1;
-- 
2.34.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-17 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-17 16:40 [PATCH v3 00/10] Deprecate/rename singlestep command line option, monitor interfaces Peter Maydell
2023-04-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] make one-insn-per-tb an accel option Peter Maydell
2023-04-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] softmmu: Don't use 'singlestep' global in QMP and HMP commands Peter Maydell
2023-04-20  8:54   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] accel/tcg: Use one_insn_per_tb global instead of old singlestep global Peter Maydell
2023-04-18  8:02   ` Richard Henderson
2023-04-18  8:05   ` Richard Henderson
2023-04-18  9:44     ` Peter Maydell
2023-04-20  8:55   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] linux-user: Add '-one-insn-per-tb' option equivalent to '-singlestep' Peter Maydell
2023-04-20  9:13   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-20  9:19     ` Peter Maydell
2023-04-20 10:05       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-17 16:40 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2023-04-20  9:13   ` [PATCH v3 05/10] bsd-user: " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] Document that -singlestep command line option is deprecated Peter Maydell
2023-04-20  8:56   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] accel/tcg: Report one-insn-per-tb in 'info jit', not 'info status' Peter Maydell
2023-04-18  8:06   ` Richard Henderson
2023-04-20  9:02   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] hmp: Add 'one-insn-per-tb' command equivalent to 'singlestep' Peter Maydell
2023-04-20  9:03   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] qapi/run-state.json: Fix missing newline at end of file Peter Maydell
2023-04-20  9:04   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-17 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] hmp: Deprecate 'singlestep' member of StatusInfo Peter Maydell
2023-04-18  8:08   ` Richard Henderson
2023-04-20  9:05   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-04-24 10:06   ` Peter Maydell
     [not found]   ` <87jzy18oqv.fsf@pond.sub.org>
2023-04-25 12:13     ` Peter Maydell
2023-04-25 13:08       ` Markus Armbruster
2023-05-02 10:22 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] Deprecate/rename singlestep command line option, monitor interfaces Peter Maydell
2023-05-02 10:43   ` Markus Armbruster

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