On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
wrote:

>
> If you only emit tracing information after the TB has executed and
> returned then you will miss the case where we execute half a TB
> and take an exception (eg load/store that page faulted, or system call),
> because in that case we'll longjmp() out of the generated code. That's
> one of the reasons why the tracing we have in upstream traces before
> TB execution.
>

What happens when the basic block gets interrupted mid execution
and restarted?  Will execution jump to the middle of the translated
basic block, or will a new translation be performed starting at the
midpoint?

Firstly, are you running with -d nochain to disable QEMU's chaining
> of TBs? (If not, then when we chain TBs together you'll only get
> exec tracing for the first one, which is a good way to get confused.
> The default tracing will tell you when we chain TBs together so you
> can sort of unconfuse yourself, but it's easier to just turn it off
> if you care about the TB logging.)
>

I was not using "-d nochain".  Thank you!


> thanks
> -- PMM
>


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