Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] icount: process QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL timers in vCPU thread

[Alex Bennée]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> On 14/03/2017 11:05, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 13/03/2017 19:15, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>>> Well yeah, it's all those that pass qemu_clock_use_for_deadline.
>>>
>>> Have you done any testing with record/replay? So far I have one
>>> reproducible run and one failure. However it is not entirely clear to me
>>> how I am meant to cleanly halt and stop a machine so I don't corrupt the
>>> replay log.
>>
>> No, I haven't tried RR.
>
> Tried now, it doesn't work but I won't have time to fix it.
>
> I tried "-kernel /path/to/bzImage -icount 3,rr=record,rrfile=replay.bin
> -net none".  record works, replay hangs.  The hang is at a "pause"
> instruction.  With "-d in_asm" it still hangs, but a bit later (still in
> the firmware).

I'm happy to keep digging.

So to be clear when you do the record step how do you save your state
before you replay?

I was just entering the MMI and typing quit but that seems to leave the
log in a broken state.

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Alex Bennée