Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 03/24/2010 09:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: >>> If you're profiling a single guest it makes more sense to do this from >>> inside the guest - you can profile userspace as well as the kernel. >>> >> I'm interested in debugging the guest without guest cooperation. >> >> In many cases qemu's new gdb stub works for that, but in some cases >> I would prefer instruction/branch traces over standard gdb style >> debugging. >> > > Isn't gdb supposed to be able to use branch traces? AFAIK not. The ptrace interface is only used by idb I believe. I might be wrong on that. Not sure if there is even a remote protocol command for branch traces either. There's a concept of "tracepoints" in the protocol, but it doesn't quite match at. > It makes sense to > expose them via the gdb stub then. Not to say an external tool > doesn't make sense. Ok that would work for me too. As long as I can set start/stop triggers and pipe the log somewhere it's fine for me. -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
