This change implements what the source-code comment already promised but
didn't keep: As we only record time deltas instead of absolute time values,
prevtime must not be overwritten unless the current delta was really added
to the trace. This has caused timing information to be stored incorrectly
if certain events were skipped (e.g., because they didn't match the memory
map configured by the user).
Change-Id: Id40271d117dd91b1122136c62329d64174f304b0
When starting the tracing plugin (simulator.addFlow()), at the moment
the *current* dynamic instruction (e.g., the one the start symbol
points to) is skipped, and tracing commences with the second
instruction. This change records an additional instruction event at
the trace begin.
Note that this change affects all tracing-plugin users. The first
event gets recorded when starting the plugin (simulator.addFlow()).
This avoids compatibility/off-by-one issues when recording traces with
the generic-tracing experiment vs. with custom experiments.
Change-Id: Ic24e17a68b8a44edad3be994e9edd6d6712bfda1
This reverts commit 036e340bd9.
Problems with this one were:
- Broken event timings. m_prevtime wasn't reset to m_curtime in
TracingPlugin::handleSingleIP(), resulting in a large deltatime
being recorded for the second event, too. This effectively
doubled the experiment's start time.
- Code repetition (copy/pasted for special handling of first event),
making planned changes (advanced tracing for IP events) more
difficult.
- Unnecessary additional tracing-plugin interface method.
Change-Id: I4b74d1a3f4563aabe6626399f9b30a2171b4c285
When using the generic-tracing experiment for generating a trace, the
first event, after the tracing is started (the start-symbol) is lost
in the trace. This patch handles this special case seperately.
Change-Id: Ia131a8559d67161532504160826fdb100247ed75
The extended trace register list is needed in multiple locations; the CPU
class is the logical module to contain this information.
Increased number of x86 registers to be traced; we can remove those
that prove unusable for fault-space pruning later on.
Change-Id: Ic46ecdbc55167a6d92872c190317fc0d1a3ad92d
When recording a "full" trace (register values, plus dereferenced
values), we use a fixed dereference size of 4 bytes.
Change-Id: Ifbf6730377e7df2e7f1fc1e6b91bc114ccf10fbc
This adds an interface for a backend-specific notion of time, e.g. CPU
cycles since simulator start, and a concrete implementation for the
Bochs backend. This is needed to record CPU idle times (e.g., HLT
instruction), and for target backends capable of more timing-accurate
execution.
This change also modifies the tracing plugin to add the time to all
trace events.
Change-Id: I93ac1d54c07f32b0b8f84f333417741d8e9c8288
The full-tracing plugin was used in the DSN paper. It additionally
traces the data that was accessed/written on a memory access and the
contents of some CPU registers.
Change-Id: I61f5230699009ce523aba341985b98148160556d
