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(localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zen.linaroharston (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57DA1FF92; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:12:00 +0100 (BST) From: =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20Benn=C3=A9e?= To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:11:15 +0100 Message-Id: <20190614171200.21078-6-alex.bennee@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20190614171200.21078-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> References: <20190614171200.21078-1-alex.bennee@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4864:20::333 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 05/50] docs/devel: add plugins.rst design document X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20Benn=C3=A9e?= Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" This is mostly extracted from Emilio's more verbose commit comments with some additional verbiage from me. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée --- docs/devel/index.rst | 1 + docs/devel/plugins.rst | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/devel/plugins.rst diff --git a/docs/devel/index.rst b/docs/devel/index.rst index 2a4ddf40ad..7e6d20c970 100644 --- a/docs/devel/index.rst +++ b/docs/devel/index.rst @@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ Contents: testing decodetree secure-coding-practices + plugins diff --git a/docs/devel/plugins.rst b/docs/devel/plugins.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b0c30375ef --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/devel/plugins.rst @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +.. + Copyright (C) 2017, Emilio G. Cota + Copyright (c) 2019, Linaro Limited + Written by Emilio Cota and Alex Bennée + +================ +QEMU TCG Plugins +================ + +QEMU TCG plugins provide a way for users to run experiments taking +advantage of the total system control emulation can have over a guest. +It provides a mechanism for plugins to subscribe to events during +translation and execution and optionally callback into the plugin +during these events. + +API Stability +============= + +This is a new feature for QEMU and it does allow people to develop +out-of-tree plugins than can be dynamically linked into a running QEMU +process. However the project reserves the right to change or break the +API should it need to do so. + +Exposure of QEMU internals +-------------------------- + +The plugin architecture actively avoids leaking implementation details +about how QEMU's translation works to the plugins. While there are +conceptions such as translation time and translation blocks the +details are opaque to plugins. The plugin is able to query select +details of instructions and system configuration only through the +exported *qemu_plugin* functions. The types used to describe +instructions and events are opaque to the plugins themselves. + +Usage +===== + +The QEMU binary needs to be compiled for plugin support: + +:: + configure --enable-plugins + +Once built a program can be run with multiple plugins loaded each with +their own arguments: + +:: + $QEMU $OTHER_QEMU_ARGS \ + -plugin tests/plugin/libhowvec.so,arg=inline,arg=hint \ + -plugin tests/plugin/libhotblocks.so + +Plugin Life cycle +================= + +First the plugin is loaded and the public qemu_plugin_install function +is called. The plugin with then register callbacks for various plugin +events. Generally at least the atexit_cb is registered so the plugin +can dump its information at the end of a run. + +When a registered event occurs the plugin callback is called. The +callbacks may provide additional information. In the case of a +translation event the plugin has an option to enumerate the +instructions in a block of instructions and optionally register +callbacks to some or all instructions when they are executed. + +There is also a facility to add an inline event where code to +increment a counter can be directly inlined with the translation. +Currently only a simple increment is supported. This is not atomic so +the plugin must either keep it's counters separated and indexed by CPU +or use a callback which can ensure atomicity. + +Finally when QEMU exits all the registered atexit callbacks are called + +Internals +========= + +Locking +------- + +We have to ensure we cannot deadlock, particularly under MTTCG. For +this we acquire a lock when called from plugin code. We also keep the +list of callbacks under RCU so that we do not have to hold the lock +when calling the callbacks. This is also for performance, since some +callbacks (e.g. memory access callbacks) might be called very +frequently. + + * A consequence of this is that we keep our own list of CPUs, so that + we do not have to worry about locking order wrt cpu_list_lock. + * Use a recursive lock, since we can get registration calls from + callbacks. + +As a result registering/unregistering callbacks is "slow", since it +takes a lock. But this is very infrequent; we want performance when +calling (or not calling) callbacks, not when registering them. Using +RCU is great for this. + +We support the uninstallation of a plugin at any time (e.g. from plugin +callbacks). This means some callbacks might still be called after the uninstall +function returns. The plugin isn't completely uninstalled until the +safe work has executed while all vCPUs are quiescent. -- 2.20.1