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Alex Bennée
ca955bd726 docs/devel: include the plugin API information from the headers
We have kerneldoc tags for the headers so we might as well extract
them into our developer documentation whilst we are at it.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Lindsay <aaron@os.amperecomputing.com>
Message-Id: <20210323165308.15244-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2021-03-24 14:24:44 +00:00
Alex Bennée
a622d64eea plugins: new hwprofile plugin
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>
2021-02-18 08:16:55 +00:00
Alex Bennée
c17a386b6a plugins: move the more involved plugins to contrib
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>
2020-09-10 10:47:03 +01:00
Alex Bennée
9675a9c6e8 docs/devel: document query handle lifetimes
I forgot to document the lifetime of handles in the developer
documentation. Do so now.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Foley <robert.foley@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Foley <robert.foley@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200225124710.14152-11-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
2020-02-25 20:20:23 +00:00
Alex Bennée
5c6ecbdc83 docs/devel: update tcg-plugins.rst with API versioning details
While we are at it fix up the quoted code sections with the inline ::
approach.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Foley <robert.foley@linaro.org>
2019-11-20 10:53:31 +00:00
Alex Bennée
8ea6abf0d0 docs/devel: rename plugins.rst to tcg-plugins.rst
This makes it a bit clearer what this is about.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
2019-11-20 10:53:31 +00:00