On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Aziz <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>
> These buffers are flushed on each context switch, so its better to add a
code that will print them.
Also it will be helpful to others if you can share the changes you made to
script for getting the instruction trace.

- Avadh


> 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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