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Re: [Qemu-devel] Using qemu to profile ARM binaries
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Wei-Ren Chen |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Using qemu to profile ARM binaries |
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Sun, 1 Jul 2012 16:40:10 +0800 |
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> I'm trying to edit the qemu source code so I can use qemu as a profiler for a
> benchmark of ARM programs. A good start would be counting loads, stores, int
> ops, float ops and branch instructions used by each of the binary files. I
> have
> two (related) questions:
>
> 1. Where in the qemu implementation would be best to count instructions? My
> first thought is to count TCG instructions before they are sent for
> translation
> into host code, although it could maybe be done before translation from ARM to
> TCG instructions as well.
Doesn't "-d" option help you?
> 2. What's the corresponding folder/file(s) in the source code where I can add
> code for profiling?
target-arm/* would be the place since you're running ARM binary, tcg/ARCH/*
could be another place depends on what machine you're running QEMU on.
Regards,
chenwj
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