On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 23:28, felix.matenaar@rwth-aachen <felix.maten...@rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > No. What I do is using gen_helper_ to compile hooks into call/ret/jmp and > memory access. The Heuristics can then hook the events so calculation is > done during the execution of a basic block. I thought that it could be > possible that Qemu sets a timeout for BBL execution to prevent CPU > monopolization by e.g. a long sequence of rep. That would make sense because > my heuristics calculation time falls into the BBL execution time for Qemu. > Does anyone know more about that?
perhaps your heuristics code somehow coincide with the timer alarm (PIT, HPET etc) emulation in Qemu....and somewhere your code is not reentrant..... -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
