On 28 July 2017 at 14:34, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> wrote: > Lluís/Peter: What are the requirements for instrumentation code > interacting with the running QEMU instance? simpletrace is > asynchronous, meaning it does not wait for anyone handle the trace event > before continuing execution, and is therefore not suitable for > SystemTap-style scripts that can interact with the program while > handling a trace event.
I think you'd probably want synchronous -- it's pretty helpful to be able to say "register a trace event hook that doesn't fire very often, and use that to get to the region of execution that's of interest to you, then enable more hooks to get more detail at that point". (For instance, "wait til we've executed 5,000,000 instructions, then turn on the tracing of all instruction execution, register modification and memory accesses".) thanks -- PMM
