* [PATCH] docs: add precision about capstone for execlog plugin
@ 2024-06-20 13:57 Alexandre Iooss
2024-06-20 18:33 ` Pierrick Bouvier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alexandre Iooss @ 2024-06-20 13:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Alexandre Iooss, Alex Bennée, Mahmoud Mandour,
Pierrick Bouvier, Richard Henderson, Paolo Bonzini,
open list:All patches CC here
Some people are wondering why they get an empty string as disassembly.
Most of the time, they configured QEMU without Capstone support.
Let's document this behaviour to help users.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Iooss <erdnaxe@crans.org>
---
docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
index 9cc09d8c3d..f7d7b9e3a4 100644
--- a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
@@ -539,7 +539,9 @@ which will output an execution trace following this structure::
0, 0xd34, 0xf9c8f000, "bl #0x10c8"
0, 0x10c8, 0xfff96c43, "ldr r3, [r0, #0x44]", load, 0x200000e4, RAM
-the output can be filtered to only track certain instructions or
+Please note that you need to configure QEMU with Capstone support to get disassembly.
+
+The output can be filtered to only track certain instructions or
addresses using the ``ifilter`` or ``afilter`` options. You can stack the
arguments if required::
--
2.30.2
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* Re: [PATCH] docs: add precision about capstone for execlog plugin
2024-06-20 13:57 [PATCH] docs: add precision about capstone for execlog plugin Alexandre Iooss
@ 2024-06-20 18:33 ` Pierrick Bouvier
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Pierrick Bouvier @ 2024-06-20 18:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexandre Iooss
Cc: Alex Bennée, Mahmoud Mandour, Richard Henderson,
Paolo Bonzini, open list:All patches CC here
On 6/20/24 06:57, Alexandre Iooss wrote:
> Some people are wondering why they get an empty string as disassembly.
> Most of the time, they configured QEMU without Capstone support.
> Let's document this behaviour to help users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Iooss <erdnaxe@crans.org>
> ---
> docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
> index 9cc09d8c3d..f7d7b9e3a4 100644
> --- a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
> +++ b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
> @@ -539,7 +539,9 @@ which will output an execution trace following this structure::
> 0, 0xd34, 0xf9c8f000, "bl #0x10c8"
> 0, 0x10c8, 0xfff96c43, "ldr r3, [r0, #0x44]", load, 0x200000e4, RAM
>
> -the output can be filtered to only track certain instructions or
> +Please note that you need to configure QEMU with Capstone support to get disassembly.
> +
> +The output can be filtered to only track certain instructions or
> addresses using the ``ifilter`` or ``afilter`` options. You can stack the
> arguments if required::
>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
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