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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 2/3] cpus: dump TLB flush counts as trace eve
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Alex Bennée |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 2/3] cpus: dump TLB flush counts as trace event |
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Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:32:13 +0100 |
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Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
> On 11/04/2017 18:50, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This can be pre-processed later from the trace file.
>
> What about skipping this patch, and instead adding five trace points
>
> trace_tlb_flush_self(int vcpu)
> trace_tlb_flush_async_schedule(int from, int to)
> trace_tlb_flush_async_work(int vcpu)
> trace_tlb_flush_synced_schedule(int vcpu)
> trace_tlb_flush_synced_work(int vcpu)
>
> The disadvantage is that the TLB flush counts are not emitted in "info
> tcg", but the resulting information is finer-grained and the offline
> accumulation of tracepoints can provide the same information.
In principle I agree. It depends if people find the console based TCG
information useful or not.
I could macro-up something that would use counters when tracing is not
enabled and prompt users to use the tracing interface in the console
when it is.
>
> Paolo
>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> cpus.c | 6 ++++++
>> trace-events | 3 +++
>> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c
>> index 740b8dc3f8..fae7344df5 100644
>> --- a/cpus.c
>> +++ b/cpus.c
>> @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
>> #include "qapi-event.h"
>> #include "hw/nmi.h"
>> #include "sysemu/replay.h"
>> +#include "exec/cputlb.h"
>> +#include "trace-root.h"
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_LINUX
>>
>> @@ -1252,6 +1254,10 @@ static int tcg_cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
>> int64_t ti;
>> #endif
>>
>> + trace_tlb_flush_stats(tlb_self_flush_count,
>> + tlb_async_flush_count,
>> + tlb_synced_flush_count);
>> +
>> #ifdef CONFIG_PROFILER
>> ti = profile_getclock();
>> #endif
>> diff --git a/trace-events b/trace-events
>> index b07a09ba95..fc23e15d25 100644
>> --- a/trace-events
>> +++ b/trace-events
>> @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ disable exec_tb(void *tb, uintptr_t pc) "tb:%p
>> pc=0x%"PRIxPTR
>> disable exec_tb_nocache(void *tb, uintptr_t pc) "tb:%p pc=0x%"PRIxPTR
>> disable exec_tb_exit(void *last_tb, unsigned int flags) "tb:%p flags=%x"
>>
>> +# cpus.c
>> +tlb_flush_stats(int self, int async, int synced) "self:%d async:%d
>> synced:%d"
>> +
>> # translate-all.c
>> translate_block(void *tb, uintptr_t pc, uint8_t *tb_code) "tb:%p,
>> pc:0x%"PRIxPTR", tb_code:%p"
>>
>>
--
Alex Bennée