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From: Aaron Lindsay via <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, cota@braap.org, kuhn.chenqun@huawei.com,
	robhenry@microsoft.com, mahmoudabdalghany@outlook.com,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH  v2 20/21] accel/tcg: allow plugin instrumentation to be disable via cflags
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:31:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCaRMAPlhBLbDIDZ@strawberry.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6s9v7ia.fsf@linaro.org>

On Feb 12 11:22, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Aaron Lindsay <aaron@os.amperecomputing.com> writes:
> > On Feb 10 22:10, Alex Bennée wrote:
> >> When icount is enabled and we recompile an MMIO access we end up
> >> double counting the instruction execution. To avoid this we introduce
> >> the CF_NOINSTR cflag which disables instrumentation for the next TB.
> >> As this is part of the hashed compile flags we will only execute the
> >> generated TB while coming out of a cpu_io_recompile.
> >
> > Unfortunately this patch works a little too well!
> >
> > With this change, the memory access callbacks registered via
> > `qemu_plugin_register_vcpu_mem_cb()` are never called for the
> > re-translated instruction making the IO access, since we've disabled all
> > instrumentation.
> 
> Hmm well we correctly don't instrument stores (as we have already
> executed the plugin for them) - but of course the load instrumentation
> is after the fact so we are now missing them.

I do not believe I am seeing memory callbacks for stores, either. Are
you saying I definitely should be?

My original observation was that the callbacks for store instructions to
IO followed the same pattern as loads:

1) Initial instruction callback (presumably as part of larger block)
2) Second instruction callback (presumably as part of single-instruction block)
3) Memory callback (presumably as part of single-instruction block)

After applying v2 of your patchset I now see only 1), even for stores.

> > Is it possible to selectively disable only instruction callbacks using
> > this mechanism, while still allowing others that would not yet have been
> > called for the re-translated instruction?
> 
> Hmmm let me see if I can finesse the CF_NOINSTR logic to allow
> plugin_gen_insn_end() without the rest? It probably needs a better name
> for the flag as well. 

Funny, the first time reading through this patch I was unsure for a
second whether "CF_NOINSTR" stood for "NO INSTRuction callbacks" or "NO
INSTRumentation"!

-Aaron


  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-12 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-10 22:10 [PATCH v2 00/21] plugins/next pre-PR (hwprofile, regression fixes, icount count fix) Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 01/21] hw/virtio/pci: include vdev name in registered PCI sections Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 02/21] plugins: add API to return a name for a IO device Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 03/21] plugins: new hwprofile plugin Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 04/21] contrib: Don't use '#' flag of printf format Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 05/21] contrib: Fix some code style problems, ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 06/21] contrib: Add spaces around operator Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 07/21] contrib: space required after that ',' Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 08/21] contrib: Open brace '{' following struct go on the same line Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 09/21] accel/tcg/plugin-gen: fix the call signature for inline callbacks Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 10/21] exec: Move TranslationBlock typedef to qemu/typedefs.h Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 10:14   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-11 10:24     ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 11/21] accel/tcg: Create io_recompile_replay_branch hook Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 10:12   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 12/21] target/mips: Create mips_io_recompile_replay_branch Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 10:10   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 13/21] target/sh4: Create superh_io_recompile_replay_branch Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 10:13   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 14/21] tests/plugin: expand insn test to detect duplicate instructions Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 15/21] tests/acceptance: add a new set of tests to exercise plugins Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 10:31   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-11 18:59     ` Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
2021-02-11 19:51   ` Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 16/21] accel/tcg: actually cache our partial icount TB Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 10:21   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-11 18:48     ` Richard Henderson
2021-02-12 15:40       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-12 17:06         ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 18:48   ` Richard Henderson
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 17/21] accel/tcg: cache single instruction TB on pending replay exception Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 19:12   ` Richard Henderson
2021-02-11 20:00     ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 18/21] accel/tcg: re-factor non-RAM execution code Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 19:19   ` Richard Henderson
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 19/21] accel/tcg: remove CF_NOCACHE and special cases Alex Bennée
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 20/21] accel/tcg: allow plugin instrumentation to be disable via cflags Alex Bennée
2021-02-12  0:53   ` Aaron Lindsay via
2021-02-12 11:22     ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-12 14:31       ` Aaron Lindsay via [this message]
2021-02-12 14:59         ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-12 14:43     ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-12 15:41       ` Aaron Lindsay via
2021-02-12 16:04         ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-12 16:50           ` Aaron Lindsay via
2021-02-12 17:19             ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-16 10:34             ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-17 16:32               ` Aaron Lindsay via
2021-02-12 16:00       ` Alex Bennée
2021-02-12 17:04         ` Aaron Lindsay via
2021-02-10 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 21/21] tests/acceptance: add a new tests to detect counting errors Alex Bennée
2021-02-11 10:24   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-11 19:56   ` Wainer dos Santos Moschetta

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