Thank you for this information. It was really helpful and I finally have
been able to obtain the trace information.
I also want to get the micro operations trace. Since it is kept in the
buffers, is there an easy way to obtain it? Or, should I add into the code
to get it?

Thanks,
Aziz



On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:31 AM, avadh patel <[email protected]> wrote:

> The script depends on the file you give in via '-o' option.  That file
> contains the function names and start address.  And the trace rip contains
> the addresses that are committed.  The script simply maps the address to
> the function and print out the function name along side the trace address.
>  You'll need to modify the script to take input the output of 'objdump -d'
> (which has all instructions and addresses) and map the trace address in it
> to get the x86 instruction.
>
> - Avadh
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Aziz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your help and the script. Finally I've been able to get the
>> functions.
>>
>> Could you please give me some pointers on how to modify the script to
>> give me the instruction trace?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aziz
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Furat Afram <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> try ./trace_to_func.py ptl_rip_trace output.txt -o ojectfile
>>>
>>> ojectfile  is the output of objdump -t
>>> I think this will give you the functions not the instructions but it
>>> shouldn't be hard to modify it to give you the instruction opcodes
>>> -Furat
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Aziz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Thanks for the response. I've been trying hard to get to somewhere for
>>> > obtaining the instruction trace, but no luck.
>>> >
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I need to obtain instruction trace for the simulation run. I checked
>>> the
>>> >>> email archive, but defining TRACE_RIP only gives me hex coded
>>> instructions,
>>> >>> where I need the instruction, registers, and memory addresses as in
>>> "add
>>> >>> eax, 0xf4". Is there any way to obtain this?
>>> >>
>>> >> Its little tricky because the simulator translate the instructions to
>>> >> micro-ops and keep a hash of RIP to micro-op buffers. So once
>>> instruction is
>>> >> decoded into micro-ops, we don't keep track of original instruction.
>>>  In
>>> >> order to create a trace file, you'll need to add a new hash-table
>>> that keeps
>>> >> track of RIP address to its original instruction.  Then you can use
>>> that in
>>> >> pipeline to dump the trace along with register values and memory
>>> addresses.
>>> >
>>> > I tried to get into the code. I found that qemu works on the
>>> instructions in
>>> > disas_insn() function (at qemu/target-i386/translate.c) , but marss
>>> transfer
>>> > the control to ptlsim using gen_helper_switch_to_sim(). I did not
>>> understand
>>> > though, what gen_jmp_im(pc_start - s->cs_base) does (line 4080
>>> > in qemu/target-i386/translate.c).
>>> > Then I though, why use ptlsim, I can just get the instructions from
>>> qemu.
>>> > When I searched for it on the web, I found this document
>>> >
>>> http://www.iamroot.org/xe/?module=file&act=procFileDownload&file_srl=37296&sid=1cb6b46c0111f9909279b58df123efa6
>>> > which explains how to trace instructions using qemu. I tried the
>>> method they
>>> > gave within the "Trace instructions in full system emulation" section,
>>> but
>>> > somehow I could not make it work.
>>> > Then I tried using gdb debugger to singlestep through the instructions
>>> (as
>>> > explained in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/16604),
>>> but
>>> > neither gdb nor singlestep option worked for me with marss. Also when
>>> I try
>>> > "printf" in qemu files (e.g. translate.c function disas_insn), it does
>>> not
>>> > print anything.
>>> > I would appreciate if you can point me to the correct functions to
>>> change,
>>> > and where-what to print to get the trace file?
>>> > I also need to get the trace of the micro-ops in the same format I
>>> explained
>>> > (micro-op and register). Is there any automatic way to get that? If
>>> not,
>>> > what to do to acquire that kind of trace file?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Also I could not make the trace_to_func.py file which Avadh gave. It
>>> says
>>> >>> its usage as "trace_to_func.py [options] trace_file outputfile". I
>>> >>> use ptl_rip_trace as trace_file and leave the options empty, but it
>>> always
>>> >>> gives the same Usage message.
>>> >>
>>> >> Did you specify the 'outputfile' ?
>>> >
>>> > Yes, I specified a filename for output. Still the following output
>>> comes up:
>>> >
>>> > $      ./trace_to_func.py ptl_rip_trace output.txt
>>> > Usage: trace_to_func.py [options] trace_file outputfile
>>> >
>>> > trace_to_func.py -h for help
>>> >
>>> > Thanks a lot for your help and for the great effort you put into marss.
>>> > Best,
>>> > Aziz
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>>
>>
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