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Re: [Qemu-devel] Idea: Qemu as test coverage tool for kernels
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Mulyadi Santosa |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Idea: Qemu as test coverage tool for kernels |
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Sun, 29 Jan 2006 12:26:33 +0700 |
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Hi...
On Saturday 28 January 2006 19:26, Blue Swirl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Qemu's system emulators could be modified to output information about
> the code areas which have been executed by the virtual CPU. The
> output could then be used in standard test coverage tools. The
> benefit would be the ability to get kernel-level coverage data.
Why not just use Oprofile (oprofile.sf.net) or standard "readprofile"
tool for this?
I am not against your idea, but I just want to avoid reinventing the
wheel
regards
Mulyadi