Re: [PATCH -tip 0/6 V4] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Fri Apr 03 2009 - 10:31:23 EST


Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
Hmm, I'd like to know actually kvm aims to emulate all kinds of
instructions.

We're less interested in fpu/sse. The interesting instructions are those used for page table management, mmio, and real mode execution.

If so, I might find some bugs in x86_emulate.c.
However, I don't know all bugs. To find all of them, we have to
port x86_emulate.c to user-space, decode binaries with it, and
compare its output with another decoder, as Jim had done with insn.c.


That would be very useful.


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