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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6] memory: add tracepoints for MMIO reads/
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Andreas Färber |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6] memory: add tracepoints for MMIO reads/writes |
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Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:02:01 +0200 |
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Am 28.07.2013 16:34, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 28 July 2013 13:35, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This is quite handy to debug softmmu targets.
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>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
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> (not a nak, just a tangential thought)
> It would be cute if you could just insert a "trace this access
> and pass it through" container MemoryRegion at an arbitrary
> point in the memory region hierarchy. That would let us do
> "trace accesses to device X" without device X having to
> have boilerplate tracing code in its read/write functions.
The SystemTap backend for instance allows you to filter what you print
based on arguments, i.e. address and size.
Are you suggesting to make the trace points in this patch conditional on
some new mr->tracing_enabled flag in the MemoryRegion?
Andreas
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