Re: [PATCH v7 00/12] TCG Plugin inline operation enhancement

[Alex Bennée]

Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org> writes:

> This series adds a new thread-safe API to declare inline operation
> inside plugins. As well, it removes the existing non thread-safe API,
> and migrates all existing plugins to use it.
>
> Tested on Linux (user, system) for i386, x86_64 and aarch64.
>
> To give some context, this a long term series of work around plugins,
> with the goal to be able to do basic operations in a more performant and
> accurate way. This will mean to add more inline operations and
> conditional callbacks.
>
> One final target of this work is to implement a plugin that implements
> the icount=auto feature, and allow QEMU to run at a given "frequency"
> based on number of instructions executed, without QEMU needing to keep
> track of this.
>
> Another final target is to be able to detect control flow changes in an
> efficient and elegant way, by combining inline operation and conditional
> callbacks.

Queued to plugins/next, thanks.

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro