Hi All,

Thanks for all the good advice!

I do not have the HW and so I need an emulator. Also the target arch is not
x86, it has to be some RISC (ARM, PPC).

I would like to run an OS, say Linux, and take a sample for a small period
of time (seconds) while some app(s) are running and get a list of opcode
names and how many times they were executed. I'm not interested in CPI at
the moment.

Vince, I briefly read your paper and went through the patch . It is very
interesting and maybe i can use it for what i need. Questions:

   - Is there a 1-1 correspondence between a BBV and a target CPU opcode?
   - If i use the QEMU to generate BBVs, and the other tools you mentioned
   that gets BBV as input, will i be able to see the opcode name (and not just
   a uniqe ID that goes with BBV)
   - Paul mentioned "With either alternative you'll still have issues with
   exceptions. MMU faults abort a TB early, so will screw up your statistics.
   One possibility is to terminate a TB on every memory access, like we do for
   watchpoints." - is this an issue addressed by your patch?

Thanks,
Chief

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On 5/22/08, Glauber
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> > Is an actual emulator necessary, or could you use something like an
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> Since he claims to need opcode statistics, and UML won't trap any
> instruction but the privileged ones, does not seem feasible.
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