RE: [PATCH 0/5] stop collection of instruction usage statistics

2021-05-27 Thread Luis Fernando Fujita Pires
From: Alex Bennée > Ahh OK. If you wanted to you could probably re-create that information using > the howvec plugin (see contrib/plugins/howvec) if the decode tables where > added for PPC. Interesting. I hadn't looked at the plugin mechanism before. In this hypothetical case, if we wanted to ge

Re: [PATCH 0/5] stop collection of instruction usage statistics

2021-05-27 Thread Alex Bennée
Luis Fernando Fujita Pires writes: > From: Alex Bennée >> I have no particular comment to make about the PPC stuff but with the common >> translator loop we have hooks across all converted front ends to identify the >> start of each instruction. It's needed for the TCG plugin instrumentation

RE: [PATCH 0/5] stop collection of instruction usage statistics

2021-05-27 Thread Luis Fernando Fujita Pires
From: Alex Bennée > I have no particular comment to make about the PPC stuff but with the common > translator loop we have hooks across all converted front ends to identify the > start of each instruction. It's needed for the TCG plugin instrumentation and > we > could in theory use it for more i

Re: [PATCH 0/5] stop collection of instruction usage statistics

2021-05-27 Thread Bruno Piazera Larsen
On 27/05/2021 10:57, Alex Bennée wrote: "Bruno Larsen (billionai)" writes: Based-on: <20210525115355.8254-1-bruno.lar...@eldorado.org.br> The functionality of counting how many instructions were being executed and being able to show it through the monitor, although neat, was only supported b

Re: [PATCH 0/5] stop collection of instruction usage statistics

2021-05-27 Thread Alex Bennée
"Bruno Larsen (billionai)" writes: > Based-on: <20210525115355.8254-1-bruno.lar...@eldorado.org.br> > > The functionality of counting how many instructions were being executed and > being able to show it through the monitor, although neat, was only > supported by ppc, and now that it is migrati

[PATCH 0/5] stop collection of instruction usage statistics

2021-05-26 Thread Bruno Larsen (billionai)
Based-on: <20210525115355.8254-1-bruno.lar...@eldorado.org.br> The functionality of counting how many instructions were being executed and being able to show it through the monitor, although neat, was only supported by ppc, and now that it is migrating to use decodetree (at least partially), those