Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes:

> Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouv...@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.
>
> I've cherry-picked 3 and 4 into plugins/next so I can re-base the
> registers work. I'll have a look at the rest of the series once I'm back
> at my desk.

Actually belay that, I'm caught in a circular dependency because this is
based on the registers series. I'll sort it out tomorrow.

>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> v2
>> --
>>
>> Implement scoreboard API (cpu local storage), so plugins don't have to deal
>> with how many cpus are used.
>>
>> Since plugins have been modified again, I didn't transfer any reviewed-by on
>> those commits.
>>
>> v3
>> --
>>
>> - introduce qemu_plugin_num_vcpus (how many cpus were initialized)
>> - fix order of plugin init/idle/resume callbacks
>> - scoreboard:
>>   - renamed qemu_plugin_u64_t -> qemu_plugin_u64
>>   - some functions rename for scoreboard api
>>   - qemu_plugin_u64 has only value based function (vs address before)
>> - various cleanup thanks to review of previous series
>>
>> Based-on: 20240122145610.413836-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org
>>
>>  Version number: 3
>>  Branches:
>>           base:  
>> plugin_registers_v3_20240122145610.413836-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org
>>           topic: plugin_inline_per_vcpu
>>
>>  To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>
>>  Pierrick Bouvier (17):
>>        plugins: remove previous n_vcpus functions from API
>>        plugins: add qemu_plugin_num_vcpus function
>>        plugins: fix order of init/idle/resume callback
>>        cpu: call plugin init hook asynchronously
>>        plugins: scoreboard API
>>        docs/devel: plugins can trigger a tb flush
>>        plugins: implement inline operation relative to cpu_index
>>        plugins: add inline operation per vcpu
>>        tests/plugin: add test plugin for inline operations
>>        tests/plugin/mem: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>        tests/plugin/insn: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>        tests/plugin/bb: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>        contrib/plugins/hotblocks: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>        contrib/plugins/howvec: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>        plugins: remove non per_vcpu inline operation from API
>>        plugins: cleanup codepath for previous inline operation
>>        MAINTAINERS: Add myself as reviewer for TCG Plugins
>>
>>   MAINTAINERS                     |   1 +
>>   docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.rst |   1 +
>>   include/qemu/plugin.h           |   6 ++
>>   include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h      | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>   plugins/plugin.h                |  24 ++++--
>>   accel/tcg/plugin-gen.c          |  65 +++++++++++---
>>   contrib/plugins/cache.c         |   2 +-
>>   contrib/plugins/hotblocks.c     |  50 ++++++-----
>>   contrib/plugins/howvec.c        |  53 ++++++++----
>>   hw/core/cpu-common.c            |   9 +-
>>   plugins/api.c                   | 121 ++++++++++++++++----------
>>   plugins/core.c                  | 104 +++++++++++++++++++---
>>   tests/plugin/bb.c               |  63 ++++++--------
>>   tests/plugin/inline.c           | 186 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   tests/plugin/insn.c             | 106 +++++++++++------------
>>   tests/plugin/mem.c              |  40 +++++----
>>   plugins/qemu-plugins.symbols    |  16 ++--
>>   tests/plugin/meson.build        |   2 +-
>>   18 files changed, 745 insertions(+), 255 deletions(-)
>>
>> Pierrick Bouvier (17):
>>   plugins: remove previous n_vcpus functions from API
>>   plugins: add qemu_plugin_num_vcpus function
>>   plugins: fix order of init/idle/resume callback
>>   cpu: call plugin init hook asynchronously
>>   plugins: scoreboard API
>>   docs/devel: plugins can trigger a tb flush
>>   plugins: implement inline operation relative to cpu_index
>>   plugins: add inline operation per vcpu
>>   tests/plugin: add test plugin for inline operations
>>   tests/plugin/mem: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>   tests/plugin/insn: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>   tests/plugin/bb: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>   contrib/plugins/hotblocks: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>   contrib/plugins/howvec: migrate to new per_vcpu API
>>   plugins: remove non per_vcpu inline operation from API
>>   plugins: cleanup codepath for previous inline operation
>>   MAINTAINERS: Add myself as reviewer for TCG Plugins
>>
>>  MAINTAINERS                     |   1 +
>>  docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.rst |   1 +
>>  include/qemu/plugin.h           |   6 ++
>>  include/qemu/qemu-plugin.h      | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++------
>>  plugins/plugin.h                |  24 +++--
>>  accel/tcg/plugin-gen.c          |  65 +++++++++--
>>  contrib/plugins/cache.c         |   2 +-
>>  contrib/plugins/hotblocks.c     |  50 +++++----
>>  contrib/plugins/howvec.c        |  53 ++++++---
>>  hw/core/cpu-common.c            |   9 +-
>>  plugins/api.c                   | 121 +++++++++++++--------
>>  plugins/core.c                  | 104 ++++++++++++++++--
>>  tests/plugin/bb.c               |  63 +++++------
>>  tests/plugin/inline.c           | 186 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  tests/plugin/insn.c             | 106 +++++++++---------
>>  tests/plugin/mem.c              |  40 ++++---
>>  plugins/qemu-plugins.symbols    |  16 ++-
>>  tests/plugin/meson.build        |   2 +-
>>  18 files changed, 745 insertions(+), 255 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 tests/plugin/inline.c

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro

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