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Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session
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Fabien Chouteau |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session |
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Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:53:28 +0100 |
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On 04/11/2011 09:36, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:35:28AM +0100, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
>> On 03/11/2011 08:44, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 29/10/2011 15:52, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> I took a quick peak at the qemu-trace.[ch] from couverture and it
>>> looks along the lines of the instrumentation that others have been
>>> doing too. I hope you have time to propose the coverage
>>> instrumentation for upstream QEMU.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know much about other instrumentations in Qemu (pointers are
>> welcome :), but what we have in couverture-qemu is not trivial,
>> especially when it comes to MC/DC analysis. You should take a look at
>> 201005-erts2.pdf if you want technical details.
>
> My impression was that the QEMU portion of instrumentation was fairly
> simple - it writes out trace records at various interesting points
> during guest execution in TCG.
It's not rocket science but for MC/DC you have to log history of
branches (taken or not), but if you record everything the output will
unreasonably grow.
>
> I think fancy analysis scripts do not have to be part of QEMU but they
> could be added to scripts/ or put in a new contrib/ directory.
What script are you talking about? GNATcoverage is far more complex than
a fancy script :)
>
> On the train, can't access the PDF you mentioned right now.
Can't you checkout the repository?
--
Fabien Chouteau
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Alexander Graf, 2011/11/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Gerd Hoffmann, 2011/11/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Andreas Färber, 2011/11/01
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Fabien Chouteau, 2011/11/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Lluís Vilanova, 2011/11/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Fabien Chouteau, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Lluís Vilanova, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Fabien Chouteau, 2011/11/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Lluís Vilanova, 2011/11/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session, Fabien Chouteau, 2011/11/02