* [Qemu-devel] Tracing concerns for concurrent execution
@ 2010-05-26 6:02 Prerna Saxena
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From: Prerna Saxena @ 2010-05-26 6:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Maneesh Soni, Anthony Liguori, Ananth, Stefan Hajnoczi
Hi,
I am writing a tracing back-end that logs tracepoint-based traces to
qemu-internal global buffers.
I had zeroed in on a lockless buffer for logging traces(to prevent
slowdowns 'cos of locks held while tracing). However, I'm not sure if
qemu threads might need some synchronisation to access the global trace
buffer.
I think the vcpu threads run lock-step, but this lock-step behaviour is
not guaranteed for some other types of threads, such as the aio helper
threads ? Also, can there be concurrency issues while tracing dynamic
translator ?
While I'm doing my study, it would be good to have some pointers on what
assumptions can / not be made for concurrent thread execution in qemu,
and what could be done to safeguard tracing in such hot-paths ?
Regards,
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Prerna Saxena
Linux Technology Centre,
IBM Systems and Technology Lab,
Bangalore, India
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