We recently introduced new plugin API for registration of discontinuity
related callbacks. This change introduces a minimal plugin showcasing
the new API. It simply counts the occurances of interrupts, exceptions
and host calls per CPU and reports the counts when exitting.
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Julian Ganz <neither@nut.email>
Message-ID: <20251027110344.2289945-11-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Enhance uftrace_symbols.py to generate .dbg files, containing
source location for every symbol present in .sym file.
It allows to use `uftrace {replay,dump} --srcline` and show origin of
functions, connecting trace to original source code.
It was first implemented with pyelftools DWARF parser, which was way
too slow (~minutes) to get locations for every symbol in the linux
kernel. Thus, we use `addr2line` instead, which runs in seconds.
As well, there were some bugs with latest pyelftools release,
requiring to run master version, which is not installable with pip.
Thus, since we now require binutils (addr2line), we can ditch pyelftools
based implementation and simply rely on `nm` to get symbols information,
which is faster and better.
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20251016150357.876415-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
usage: contrib/plugins/uftrace_symbols.py \
--prefix-symbols \
arm-trusted-firmware/build/qemu/debug/bl1/bl1.elf \
arm-trusted-firmware/build/qemu/debug/bl2/bl2.elf \
arm-trusted-firmware/build/qemu/debug/bl31/bl31.elf \
u-boot/u-boot:0x60000000 \
u-boot/u-boot.relocated:0x000000023f6b6000 \
linux/vmlinux
Will generate symbols and memory mapping files for uftrace, allowing to
have an enhanced trace, instead of raw addresses.
It takes a collection of elf files, and automatically find all their
symbols, and generate an ordered memory map based on that.
This script uses the python (native) pyelftools module.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250902075042.223990-9-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250922093711.2768983-25-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Beyond traces per cpu, uftrace expect to find some specific files.
- info: contains information about machine/program run
those values are not impacting uftrace behaviour (only reported by
uftrace info), and we simply added empty strings.
- memory mapping: how every binary is mapped in memory. For system mode,
we generate an empty mapping (uftrace_symbols.py, coming in future
commit, will take care of that). For user mode, we copy current
/proc/self/maps. We don't need to do any special filtering, as
reported addresses will necessarily concern guest program, and not
QEMU and its libraries.
- task: list of tasks. We present every vcpu/privilege level as a
separate process, as it's the best view we can have when generating a
(visual) chrome trace. Using threads is less convenient in terms of
UI.
Reviewed-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250902075042.223990-7-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250922093711.2768983-23-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
In insn_check_regs() we don't explicitly check whether
qemu_plugin_read_register() failed, which confuses Coverity into
thinking that sz can be -1 in the memcmp(). In fact the assertion
that sz == reg->last->len means this can't happen, but it's clearer
to both humans and Coverity if we explicitly assert that sz > 0, as
we already do in init_vcpu_register().
Coverity: CID 1611901, 1611902
Fixes: af6e4e0a22 ("contrib/plugins: extend execlog to track register changes")
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250710144543.1187715-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250922093711.2768983-17-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Currently, execlog searches for a space separator between the
instruction mnemonic and operands, but some disassemblers, e.g. Alpha's,
use a tab separator instead; this results in a null pointer being passed
as the haystack in g_strstr during a subsequent register search, i.e.
undefined behavior, because of a missing null check.
This patch adds tab to the separator search and a null check on the
result.
Also, an affected pointer is changed to const.
Lastly, a break statement was added to immediately terminate the
register search when a user-requested register is found in the current
instruction as a trivial optimization, because searching for the
remaining requested registers is unnecessary once one is found.
Suggested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Yodel Eldar <yodel.eldar@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20250630164124.26315-2-yodel.eldar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20250710104531.3099313-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
The build fails on Windows. Replace calls to Unix programs like ´cat´,
´sed´ and ´true´ with calls to ´python´ and wrap calls to
´os.path.relpath´ in try-except because it can fail when the two paths
are on different drives. Make sure to convert the Windows paths to Unix
paths to prevent warnings in generated files.
Signed-off-by: oltolm <oleg.tolmatcev@gmail.com>
Message-id: 20250612221521.1109-2-oleg.tolmatcev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
On Emscripten, function pointer casts can result in runtime failures due to
strict function signature checks. This affects the use of g_list_sort and
g_slist_sort, which internally perform function pointer casts that are not
supported by Emscripten. To avoid these issues, g_list_sort_with_data and
g_slist_sort_with_data should be used instead, as they do not rely on
function pointer casting.
Signed-off-by: Kohei Tokunaga <ktokunaga.mail@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <0fcddfca16ca8da2bdaa7b2c114476f5b73d032b.1745295397.git.ktokunaga.mail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
./tests/functional/test_aarch64_tcg_plugins.py needs to have plugin
libinsn built. However, it's not listed as a dependency, so meson can't
know it needs to be built.
Thus, we keep track of all plugins, and add them as an explicit
dependency.
Fixes: 4c134d07b9 ("tests: add a new set of tests to exercise plugins")
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20250304222439.2035603-9-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
../contrib/plugins/cache.c:638:9: error: ‘l2_cache’ may be used uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
638 | append_stats_line(rep, l1_dmem_accesses, l1_dmisses,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Is a false-positive, since cores > 1, so the variable is set in the
above loop.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
contrib/plugins/cflow.c: In function ‘plugin_exit’:
contrib/plugins/cflow.c:167:19: error: declaration of ‘n’ shadows a previous local [-Werror=shadow=local]
167 | NodeData *n = l->data;
| ^
contrib/plugins/cflow.c:139:9: note: shadowed declaration is here
139 | int n = 0;
| ^
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20241023212812.1376972-2-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Running "make distclean" in the build tree currently fails since this
tries to run the "distclean" target in the contrib/plugins/ folder, too,
but the Makefile there is missing this target. Thus add 'distclean' there
to fix this issue.
And to avoid regressions with "make distclean", add this command to one
of the build jobs, too.
Message-ID: <20240902154749.73876-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Found on debian stable.
../contrib/plugins/execlog.c: In function ‘vcpu_tb_trans’:
../contrib/plugins/execlog.c:236:22: error: declaration of ‘n’ shadows a previous local [-Werror=shadow=local]
236 | for (int n = 0; n < all_reg_names->len; n++) {
| ^
../contrib/plugins/execlog.c:184:12: note: shadowed declaration is here
184 | size_t n = qemu_plugin_tb_n_insns(tb);
|
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240814233645.944327-2-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
This new plugin allows to stop emulation using conditions on the
emulation state. By setting this plugin arguments, it is possible
to set an instruction count limit and/or trigger address(es) to stop at.
The code returned at emulation exit can be customized.
This plugin demonstrates how someone could stop QEMU execution.
It could be used for research purposes to launch some code and
deterministically stop it and understand where its execution flow went.
Co-authored-by: Alexandre Iooss <erdnaxe@crans.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Hamelin <simon.hamelin@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Iooss <erdnaxe@crans.org>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240715081521.19122-2-simon.hamelin@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240718094523.1198645-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
We were repeating information which wasn't super clear. As we already
will have dumped the last failing PC just note the divergence and dump
the previous instruction log.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240705084047.857176-27-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This plugin uses the new time control interface to make decisions
about the state of time during the emulation. The algorithm is
currently very simple. The user specifies an ips rate which applies
per core. If the core runs ahead of its allocated execution time the
plugin sleeps for a bit to let real time catch up. Either way time is
updated for the emulation as a function of total executed instructions
with some adjustments for cores that idle.
Examples
--------
Slow down execution of /bin/true:
$ num_insn=$(./build/qemu-x86_64 -plugin ./build/tests/plugin/libinsn.so -d plugin /bin/true |& grep total | sed -e 's/.*: //')
$ time ./build/qemu-x86_64 -plugin ./build/contrib/plugins/libips.so,ips=$(($num_insn/4)) /bin/true
real 4.000s
Boot a Linux kernel simulating a 250MHz cpu:
$ /build/qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-21-amd64 -append "console=ttyS0" -plugin ./build/contrib/plugins/libips.so,ips=$((250*1000*1000)) -smp 1 -m 512
check time until kernel panic on serial0
Tested in system mode by booting a full debian system, and using:
$ sysbench cpu run
Performance decrease linearly with the given number of ips.
Signed-off-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240530220610.1245424-7-pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240620152220.2192768-11-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Instead of returning a host pointer, copy the data into
storage provided by the caller.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
1. The g_pattern_match_string() is deprecated when glib2 version >= 2.70.
Use g_pattern_spec_match_string() instead to avoid this problem.
2. The type of second parameter in g_ptr_array_add() is
'gpointer' {aka 'void *'}, but the type of reg->name is 'const char*'.
Cast the type of reg->name to 'gpointer' to avoid this problem.
compiler warning message:
contrib/plugins/execlog.c:330:17: warning: ‘g_pattern_match_string’
is deprecated: Use 'g_pattern_spec_match_string' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
330 | if (g_pattern_match_string(pat, rd->name) ||
| ^~
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:67,
from contrib/plugins/execlog.c:9:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gpattern.h:57:15: note: declared here
57 | gboolean g_pattern_match_string (GPatternSpec *pspec,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
contrib/plugins/execlog.c:331:21: warning: ‘g_pattern_match_string’
is deprecated: Use 'g_pattern_spec_match_string' instead [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
331 | g_pattern_match_string(pat, rd_lower)) {
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gpattern.h:57:15: note: declared here
57 | gboolean g_pattern_match_string (GPatternSpec *pspec,
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
contrib/plugins/execlog.c:339:63: warning: passing argument 2 of
‘g_ptr_array_add’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
339 | g_ptr_array_add(all_reg_names, reg->name);
| ~~~^~~~~~
In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:33:
/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/garray.h:198:62: note: expected
‘gpointer’ {aka ‘void *’} but argument is of type ‘const char *’
198 | gpointer data);
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2210
Signed-off-by: Yao Xingtao <yaoxt.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Message-ID: <20240326015257.21516-1-yaoxt.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
rec->count.score is inside rec, which is freed before rec->count.score is.
Reorder the instructions
Reported by Coverity as CID 1539967.
Cc: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Sönke Holz