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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/6] trace: Show vCPU info in guest code even


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/6] trace: Show vCPU info in guest code events
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:15:13 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 07:19:10PM +0100, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
> NOTE: This series should complete the framework for guest code tracing. From
>       here on, other series can concurrently add actual events and improve the
>       guest code tracing features and performance (e.g., control tracing
>       independently on each vCPU).
> 
> This series introduces the "vcpu" property for tracing events. This property
> identifies events that are tied to a particular virtual CPU (e.g., executing 
> an
> instruction).
> 
> Events with this property have an implicit vcpu argument, which is shown in 
> the
> trace. In the case of events executed at TCG translation time, two implicit
> arguments are added:
> 
> * The vCPU performing the code translation (shown in the translation-time 
> trace)
> * The vCPU executing the translated code (shown in the execution-time trace)
> 
> Note that the "vcpu" and "tcg" properties are not merged into a single one,
> since events can be defined that relate to a vCPU but are never raised from 
> TCG
> code (e.g., interrupts).
> 
> 
> Changes in v8
> =============
> 
> * Rebase on 1b16240.
> * Minor fix in message formatting ('tracetool.vcpu' module).
> * Fix management of event arguments with TCG types.
> * Tested with various (non sent) events with different mixes of native and 
> TCG arguments.
> 
> 
> Changes in v7
> =============
> 
> * Fix the modified event copying code.
> * Minor fix in commit message for patch 3.
> 
> 
> Changes in v6
> =============
> 
> * Rebase on 84c0781.
> * Replace the added 'TCGv_cpu' type for 'TCGv_env', since the users are really
>   pointing to 'CPUArchState'.
> * Add functions to simplify event argument management.
> * Add minor event copy cleanup (remove long "event.original.original" chains).
> * Make it easier to change arguments injected by the 'vcpu' property.
> 
> 
> Changes in v5
> =============
> 
> * Rebase on 357e81c.
> * Split from the previous (larger and more complex) v4 series.
> 
> 
> Changes in v4
> =============
> 
> * Fix typo in commit message (Stefan Hajnoczi).
> * Simplify per-vCPU tracing state initialization (Stefan Hajnoczi).
> * Update copyright years.
> 
> 
> Changes in v3
> =============
> 
> * Update QAPI version (Eric Blake).
> * Fix '#optional' annotation in QAPI (Eric Blake).
> 
> 
> Changes in v2
> =============
> 
> * Rebase on 5522a84.
> * Improve patch descriptions.
> * Refactor code generation into a separate patch.
> * Fix forward declarations (Stefan Hajnoczi & Eduardo Habkost).
> * Fix "since" tags in QAPI interface (Eric Blake).
> * Unify QAPI/QMP interface with an optional 'vcpu' argument (Eric Blake).
> * Fix QMP+GTK header workaround (Stefan Hajnoczi).
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <address@hidden>
> Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> ---
> 
> Lluís Vilanova (6):
>       trace: Extend API to manage event arguments
>       trace: Remove unnecessary intermediate event copies
>       tcg: Add type for vCPU pointers
>       tcg: Move definition of type TCGv
>       [trivial] trace: Add helper function to cast event arguments
>       trace: Add 'vcpu' event property to trace guest vCPU
> 
> 
>  docs/tracing.txt                                 |   41 +++++++++++++
>  include/qemu/typedefs.h                          |    1 
>  scripts/tracetool/__init__.py                    |   35 +++++++++--
>  scripts/tracetool/format/events_h.py             |    4 +
>  scripts/tracetool/format/h.py                    |    3 +
>  scripts/tracetool/format/tcg_h.py                |   33 +++++++---
>  scripts/tracetool/format/tcg_helper_c.py         |   45 +++++++++++---
>  scripts/tracetool/format/tcg_helper_h.py         |    7 +-
>  scripts/tracetool/format/tcg_helper_wrapper_h.py |    5 +-
>  scripts/tracetool/format/ust_events_c.py         |    1 
>  scripts/tracetool/transform.py                   |    4 +
>  scripts/tracetool/vcpu.py                        |   70 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  target-alpha/translate.c                         |    2 -
>  target-arm/translate.c                           |    2 -
>  target-arm/translate.h                           |    2 -
>  target-cris/translate.c                          |    2 -
>  target-i386/translate.c                          |    2 -
>  target-lm32/translate.c                          |    2 -
>  target-m68k/translate.c                          |    2 -
>  target-microblaze/translate.c                    |    2 -
>  target-mips/translate.c                          |    2 -
>  target-moxie/translate.c                         |    2 -
>  target-openrisc/translate.c                      |    2 -
>  target-ppc/translate.c                           |    2 -
>  target-s390x/translate.c                         |    2 -
>  target-sh4/translate.c                           |    2 -
>  target-sparc/translate.c                         |    5 +-
>  target-tilegx/translate.c                        |    2 -
>  target-tricore/translate.c                       |    2 -
>  target-unicore32/translate.c                     |    2 -
>  target-xtensa/translate.c                        |    2 -
>  tcg/tcg-op.h                                     |    2 -
>  tcg/tcg.h                                        |    8 +++
>  trace/control.h                                  |    3 +
>  34 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 scripts/tracetool/vcpu.py
> 
> 
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Cc: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to my tracing tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/tracing

Stefan

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