[ACTIVITY] week ending Sep. 16 2018

[Alex Bennée]

QEMU Tooling ([VIRT-252])
=========================

- thoughts after reviewing {Qemu-devel} {RFC PATCH v2 0/7} QEMU binary
instrumentation prototype Message-Id:
<***@pasha-ThinkPad-T60>
- we want rich tooling but don't want to leak internals to plugins
- the proposed helper per insn is pretty limited/hacky
- I think we could expand exiting trace support with plugins
- plugin hook to trace points
- plugin either filters trace points or does in-situ analysis
- existing trace infrastructure used to export data


[VIRT-252] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-252


Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
==========================

- investigating CI failure in master:
- The [Travis builds have been broken for a while]
- meanwhile it looks like [atomic_8 issues have broken 32 bit
builds]
- reviewed {PATCH 0/6} i386 + x86_64 mttcg Message-Id:
<20180903171831.15446-1-***@braap.org>
- posted {RFC PATCH 0/4} Add Nios II cross-compiler and enable
tests/tcg Message-Id:
<8346c1bb-9cb6-4c08-66a2-***@vivier.eu>


[VIRT-109] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-109

[Travis builds have been broken for a while]
https://travis-ci.org/qemu/qemu/builds

[atomic_8 issues have broken 32 bit builds]
https://app.shippable.com/github/qemu/qemu/dashboard


Other Tasks
===========

- Continued working on "My Other Machine is Virtual" talk for YVR18
- finished main talk, iterating and practising now
- also made a few [fixes and enhacements for tlb tracking]
- Administrava
- caught up with expense claims for SynQuacer
- organising for KVM Forum 2018
- organising/travel to Connect


[fixes and enhacements for tlb tracking]
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/misc/dfilter-and-trace-tweaks-v2


Completed Reviews [4/4]
=======================

{PATCH 0/6} target/arm: More sve-ish fixes
Message-Id: <20180810193129.1556-1-***@linaro.org>

- CLOSING NOTE [2018-09-07 Fri 16:36]
Already in target-arm.next


{Qemu-devel} {PATCH 0/3} synchronization profiler
Message-Id: <20180813171132.21939-3-***@braap.org>

- CLOSING NOTE [2018-09-07 Fri 17:41]
Already merged


{PATCH 0/6} i386 + x86_64 mttcg
Message-Id: <20180903171831.15446-1-***@braap.org>

- CLOSING NOTE [2018-09-10 Mon 10:18]
Quick pass, looks OK but a question about __thread w.r.t tcg globals


{PATCH v2 0/2} softfloat tests based on berkeley's testfloat
Message-Id: <20180908191735.22861-1-***@braap.org>

- CLOSING NOTE [2018-09-10 Mon 12:27]
Looks like an improvement on IBM test suite but needs a few more
tweaks.

Absences
========

- YVR18 Connect (17th-21st September 2018)
- KVM Forum 2018 (24th-26th October 2018)

Current Review Queue
====================

* {PATCH v3 0/3} softfloat tests based on berkeley's testfloat
Message-Id: <20180913213910.28189-1-***@braap.org>
* {PATCH v3 00/13} i386 + x86_64 mttcg
Message-Id: <20180911202823.21657-1-***@braap.org>
* {PATCH v6 00/25} Fixing record/replay and adding reverse debugging
Message-Id: <***@pasha-VirtualBox>
* {Qemu-devel} {PATCH v2 00/11} convert CPU list to RCU
Message-Id: <374f82bc-1680-a59d-aa71-***@redhat.com>
* {Qemu-arm} {PATCH 00/15} gdbstub: support for the multiprocess extension
Message-Id: <20180901124639.19735-1-***@greensocs.com>
* {Qemu-devel} {PATCH v4 0/5} Acceptance/functional tests
Message-Id: <20180530184156.15634-1-***@redhat.com>
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Alex Bennée