By default L2 is not enabled and is enabled by either using the
newly-introduced "l2" boolean argument, or by setting any of the L2
cache parameters using args. On specifying "l2=on", the default cache
configuration is used.
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210810134844.166490-5-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20211026102234.3961636-17-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This way of handling args is more lenient and sets a better framework to
parse boolean command line arguments.
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210810134844.166490-4-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20211026102234.3961636-16-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This adds an implementation of a simple L2 configuration, in which a
unified L2 cache (stores both blocks of instructions and data) is
maintained for each core separately, with no inter-core interaction
taken in account. The L2 cache is used as a backup for L1 and is only
accessed if the wanted block does not exist in L1.
In terms of multi-threaded user-space emulation, the same approximation
of L1 is done, a static number of caches is maintained, and each and
every memory access initiated by a thread will have to go through one of
the available caches.
An atomic increment is used to maintain the number of L2 misses per
instruction.
The default cache parameters of L2 caches is:
2MB cache size
16-way associativity
64-byte blocks
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210810134844.166490-3-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20211026102234.3961636-15-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Correctly parsing plugin argument since they now must be provided as
full-form boolean parameters, e.g.:
-plugin ./contrib/plugins/libhowvec.so,verbose=on,inline=on
Also, introduced the argument "count" that accepts one opt to count
individually at a time.
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210730135817.17816-8-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Parsing boolean arguments correctly (e.g. pattern=on or source=false).
Introduced a new "track" argument that takes a [read|write] value. This
substitutes passing read or write to "arg=" that is deprecated.
Also, matches are now taken one by one through the "match" argument.
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210730135817.17816-7-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Since plugin arguments now expect boolean arguments, a plugin argument
name "sortby" now expects a value of "read", "write", or "address".
"io" arg is now expected to be passed as a full-form boolean parameter,
i.e. "io=on|true|yes|off|false|no"
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210730135817.17816-4-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Multicore L1 cache modelling is introduced and is supported for both
full system emulation and linux-user.
For full-system emulation, L1 icache and dcache are maintained for each
available core, since this information is exposed to the plugin through
`qemu_plugin_n_vcpus()`.
For linux-user, a static number of cores is assumed (default 1 core, and
can be provided as a plugin argument `cores=N`). Every memory access
goes through one of these caches, this approach is taken as it's
somewhat akin to what happens on real setup, where a program that
dispatches more threads than the available cores, they'll thrash
each other
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210803151301.123581-2-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
It's not necessary to lock the address translation portion of the
vcpu_mem_access callback.
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210714172151.8494-3-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210720232703.10650-23-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This manifests itself when associativity degree is greater than the
number of sets and FIFO is used, otherwise it's also a memory leak
whenever FIFO was used.
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210714172151.8494-2-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210720232703.10650-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Implemented FIFO and LRU eviction policies. Now one of the three
eviction policies can be chosen as an argument. On not specifying an
argument, LRU is used by default.
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210623125458.450462-4-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210709143005.1554-39-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Added a cache modelling plugin that uses a static configuration used in
many of the commercial microprocessors and uses random eviction policy.
The purpose of the plugin is to identify the most cache-thrashing
instructions for both instruction cache and data cache.
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210623125458.450462-2-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210709143005.1554-37-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Log instruction execution and memory access to a file.
This plugin can be used for reverse engineering or for side-channel analysis
using QEMU.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Iooss <erdnaxe@crans.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210702081307.1653644-2-erdnaxe@crans.org>
Message-Id: <20210709143005.1554-35-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Lets spot the obvious errors.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210709143005.1554-34-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This allows plugins to query for full virtual-to-physical address
translation for a given `qemu_plugin_hwaddr` and stops exposing the
offset within the device itself. As this change breaks the API,
QEMU_PLUGIN_VERSION is incremented.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lindsay <aaron@os.amperecomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210309202802.211756-1-aaron@os.amperecomputing.com>
Message-Id: <20210312172821.31647-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
I found some style problems whil check the code using checkpatch.pl.
This commit fixs the issue below:
ERROR: that open brace { should be on the previous line
Signed-off-by: zhouyang <zhouyang789@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210118031004.1662363-6-zhouyang789@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20210213130325.14781-9-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
I am reading contrib related code and found some style problems while
check the code using checkpatch.pl. This commit fixs the issue below:
ERROR: space required after that ','
Signed-off-by: zhouyang <zhouyang789@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210118031004.1662363-5-zhouyang789@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20210213130325.14781-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
I am reading contrib related code and found some style problems while
check the code using checkpatch.pl. This commit fixs the issue below:
ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
Signed-off-by: zhouyang <zhouyang789@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210118031004.1662363-3-zhouyang789@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20210213130325.14781-6-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
I am reading contrib related code and found some style problems while
check the code using checkpatch.pl. This commit fixs the misuse of
'#' flag of printf format
Signed-off-by: zhouyang <zhouyang789@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210118031004.1662363-2-zhouyang789@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20210213130325.14781-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
This is a plugin intended to help with profiling access to various
bits of system hardware. It only really makes sense for system
emulation.
It takes advantage of the recently exposed helper API that allows us
to see the device name (memory region name) associated with a device.
You can specify arg=read or arg=write to limit the tracking to just
reads or writes (by default it does both).
The pattern option:
-plugin ./tests/plugin/libhwprofile.so,arg=pattern
will allow you to see the access pattern to devices, eg:
gic_cpu @ 0xffffffc010040000
off:00000000, 8, 1, 8, 1
off:00000000, 4, 1, 4, 1
off:00000000, 2, 1, 2, 1
off:00000000, 1, 1, 1, 1
The source option:
-plugin ./tests/plugin/libhwprofile.so,arg=source
will track the virtual source address of the instruction making the
access:
pl011 @ 0xffffffc010031000
pc:ffffffc0104c785c, 1, 4, 0, 0
pc:ffffffc0104c7898, 1, 4, 0, 0
pc:ffffffc010512bcc, 2, 1867, 0, 0
You cannot mix source and pattern.
Finally the match option allow you to limit the tracking to just the
devices you care about.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Robert Foley <robert.foley@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Foley <robert.foley@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210213130325.14781-4-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Either accept() fails or exits normally, we need to close the fd.
Reported-by: Euler Robot <euler.robot@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chen <alex.chen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20201109082829.87496-3-alex.chen@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20201110192316.26397-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Close the fd when the connect() fails.
Reported-by: Euler Robot <euler.robot@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chen <alex.chen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20201109082829.87496-2-alex.chen@huawei.com>
Message-Id: <20201110192316.26397-2-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
We have an exploding complexity problem in the testing so lets just
move the more involved plugins into contrib. tests/plugins still exist
for the basic plugins that exercise the API. We restore the old
pre-meson style Makefile for contrib as it also doubles as a guide for
out-of-tree plugin builds.
While we are at it add some examples to the documentation and a
specific plugins build target.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200909112742.25730-11-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
