Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v3 00/30] replay additions

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 11/01/2018 09:24, Pavel Dovgalyuk wrote:
> Accidentally sent draft version of patches to the mailing list.
> Please consider this one as the correct one.
> 
> This set of patches includex fixes from Alex Bennée for fixing
> BQL and replay locks after inventing the MTTCG. It also includes some
> additional replay patches that makes this set of fixes working.
> It is also fixes some vmstate creation (and loading) issues
> in record/replay modes:
>  - VM start/stop fixes in replay mode
>  - overlay creation for blkreplay filter
>  - fixes for vmstate save/load in record/replay mode
>  - fixes for host clock vmstate
>  - fixes for icount timers vmstate
> 
> There is also a set of helper scripts written by Alex Bennée
> for debugging the record/replay code.

For now, I'm applying patches 13, 24-26 and 28.

Paolo

> 
> v3 changes:
>  - removed upstreamed patches
>  - fixed bug with recursive checkpoints
>  - fixed bug with icount warp checkpoint
> 
> v2 changes:
>  - updated lock/unlock logic (as suggested by Paolo Bonzini)
>  - updated cpu execution loop to avoid races in setting/resetting exit request (as suggested by Paolo Bonzini)
>  - minor changes
> 
> ---
> 
> Alex Bennée (12):
>       target/arm/arm-powertctl: drop BQL assertions
>       cpus: push BQL lock to qemu_*_wait_io_event
>       cpus: only take BQL for sleeping threads
>       replay/replay.c: bump REPLAY_VERSION again
>       replay/replay-internal.c: track holding of replay_lock
>       replay: make locking visible outside replay code
>       replay: push replay_mutex_lock up the call tree
>       scripts/qemu-gdb: add simple tcg lock status helper
>       util/qemu-thread-*: add qemu_lock, locked and unlock trace events
>       scripts/analyse-locks-simpletrace.py: script to analyse lock times
>       scripts/replay-dump.py: replay log dumper
>       scripts/qemu-gdb/timers.py: new helper to dump timer state
> 
> Pavel Dovgalyuk (18):
>       hpet: recover timer offset correctly
>       cpu: flush TB cache when loading VMState
>       This patch adds a condition before overwriting exception_index fields.
>       block: implement bdrv_snapshot_goto for blkreplay
>       blkreplay: create temporary overlay for underlaying devices
>       replay: disable default snapshot for record/replay
>       replay: fix processing async events
>       replay: fixed replay_enable_events
>       replay: fix save/load vm for non-empty queue
>       replay: added replay log format description
>       replay: make safe vmstop at record/replay
>       replay: save prior value of the host clock
>       icount: fixed saving/restoring of icount warp timers
>       replay: don't destroy mutex at exit
>       replay: check return values of fwrite
>       replay: avoid recursive call of checkpoints
>       replay: improve replay performance
>       replay: don't process async events when warping the clock
> 
> 
>  accel/kvm/kvm-all.c                  |    4 
>  accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c                 |    5 -
>  block/blkreplay.c                    |   73 ++++++++
>  cpus-common.c                        |   13 +
>  cpus.c                               |  184 +++++++++++++++-----
>  docs/replay.txt                      |   91 ++++++++++
>  exec.c                               |    1 
>  hw/timer/hpet.c                      |   30 +++
>  include/hw/compat.h                  |    6 +
>  include/qemu/thread.h                |   19 ++
>  include/qemu/timer.h                 |   14 ++
>  include/sysemu/replay.h              |   22 ++
>  migration/savevm.c                   |   13 +
>  replay/replay-char.c                 |   21 +-
>  replay/replay-events.c               |   30 +--
>  replay/replay-internal.c             |   48 +++++
>  replay/replay-internal.h             |    9 +
>  replay/replay-snapshot.c             |    9 +
>  replay/replay-time.c                 |   10 +
>  replay/replay.c                      |   75 ++++++--
>  scripts/analyse-locks-simpletrace.py |   99 +++++++++++
>  scripts/qemu-gdb.py                  |    4 
>  scripts/qemugdb/tcg.py               |   46 +++++
>  scripts/qemugdb/timers.py            |   54 ++++++
>  scripts/replay-dump.py               |  308 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  stubs/replay.c                       |   16 ++
>  target/arm/arm-powerctl.c            |    8 -
>  target/i386/hax-all.c                |    2 
>  util/main-loop.c                     |   17 +-
>  util/qemu-thread-posix.c             |   21 +-
>  util/qemu-timer.c                    |   12 +
>  util/trace-events                    |    7 -
>  vl.c                                 |   12 +
>  33 files changed, 1112 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/analyse-locks-simpletrace.py
>  create mode 100644 scripts/qemugdb/tcg.py
>  create mode 100644 scripts/qemugdb/timers.py
>  create mode 100755 scripts/replay-dump.py
>