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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst | 9 |
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diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst index a7cc44a..a503d44 100644 --- a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst +++ b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ The execlog tool traces executed instructions with memory access. It can be used for debugging and security analysis purposes. Please be aware that this will generate a lot of output. -The plugin takes no argument:: +The plugin needs default argument:: qemu-system-arm $(QEMU_ARGS) \ -plugin ./contrib/plugins/libexeclog.so -d plugin @@ -364,6 +364,13 @@ which will output an execution trace following this structure:: 0, 0xd34, 0xf9c8f000, "bl #0x10c8" 0, 0x10c8, 0xfff96c43, "ldr r3, [r0, #0x44]", load, 0x200000e4, RAM +the output can be filtered to only track certain instructions or +addresses using the `ifilter` or `afilter` options. You can stack the +arguments if required:: + + qemu-system-arm $(QEMU_ARGS) \ + -plugin ./contrib/plugins/libexeclog.so,ifilter=st1w,afilter=0x40001808 -d plugin + - contrib/plugins/cache.c Cache modelling plugin that measures the performance of a given L1 cache |