From: punit.agrawal@arm•com (Punit Agrawal)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv2 5/5] arm64: Trace emulation of AArch32 legacy instructions
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:18:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9hh8ukibp5c.fsf@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141001104002.4efbde6f@gandalf.local.home> (Steven Rostedt's message of "Wed, 1 Oct 2014 10:40:02 -0400")
[ Correcting Arnd's email address ]
Hi Steve,
Thanks for having a look.
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis•org> writes:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 13:07:59 +0100
> Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm•com> wrote:
>
>> Introduce an event to trace the usage of emulated instructions. The
>> trace event is intended to help identify and encourage the migration
>> of legacy software using the emulation features.
>>
>> Use this event to trace usage of swp and CP15 barrier emulation.
>
> Do you expect this to be a generic tracepoint? Something any arch can
> use, and more importantly, will use?
The intention was to create a generic event to trace instruction
emulation irrespective of the architecture but at the moment the only
user will be arm64.
Whether other architectures start using it... I am not sure.
>
> If not, please keep this tracepoint in the arch/arm64 directories. The
> sample code in samples/trace_events/ explains how to do this.
I'll move this to arm64 in the next version.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Steve
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-14 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-01 12:07 [PATCHv2 0/5] Legacy instruction emulation for arm64 Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 12:07 ` [PATCHv2 1/5] arm64: Add support for hooks to handle undefined instructions Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 12:07 ` [PATCHv2 2/5] arm64: Add AArch32 instruction set condition code checks Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 12:07 ` [PATCHv2 3/5] arm64: Port SWP/SWPB emulation support from arm Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 12:07 ` [PATCHv2 4/5] arm64: Emulate CP15 Barrier instructions Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 12:07 ` [PATCHv2 5/5] arm64: Trace emulation of AArch32 legacy instructions Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 14:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-10-14 16:18 ` Punit Agrawal [this message]
2014-10-01 13:37 ` [PATCHv2 0/5] Legacy instruction emulation for arm64 Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 13:37 ` [PATCHv2 1/5] arm64: Add support for hooks to handle undefined instructions Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 13:37 ` [PATCHv2 2/5] arm64: Add AArch32 instruction set condition code checks Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 13:37 ` [PATCHv2 3/5] arm64: Port SWP/SWPB emulation support from arm Punit Agrawal
2014-10-06 10:52 ` Will Deacon
2014-10-01 13:37 ` [PATCHv2 4/5] arm64: Emulate CP15 Barrier instructions Punit Agrawal
2014-10-01 13:37 ` [PATCHv2 5/5] arm64: Trace emulation of AArch32 legacy instructions Punit Agrawal
2014-10-06 10:22 ` [PATCHv2 0/5] Legacy instruction emulation for arm64 Will Deacon
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