Re: Qemu 4.2 - tracing data memory accesses

[Benjamin]

That does look very promising.  Although it seems this functionality is new with the latest version, do you know of any projects or examples I could look at to learn more about how to write a plugin?

Thanks

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:09 PM Alexei Colin <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Qemu-discuss [mailto:qemu-discuss-bounces+acolin=address@hidden] On Behalf Of Benjamin
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> Subject: Qemu 4.2 - tracing data memory accesses
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> I am trying to gather information about data memory accesses by the guest program running in emulation.  I have already figured out which functions are called for accessing the instruction memory (disas_xxx_insn).  
>
> Say, for example, the guest program accesses a value in an array.  From what I have been able to find, it seems that there is a mapping of addresses in the guest program in the Qemu memory space.  But I don't know where I could place function calls in the Qemu code to track data memory accesses.  My goal in doing this is emulating L1 caches on an ARM processor.

The new TCG plugin might be helpful: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/devel/tcg-plugins.html