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Outline
Context
Motivations
Program instrumentation
Dynamic binary translation
Execution time and translation time instrumentation
Emulation and instrumentation overhead
Contributions and future work
Context
QEMU, a versatile opensource tool used for:
Platform emulation (Google SDK,…)Devices emulation (VirtualBox,…)Program emulation (Scratchbox,…)
Our context:
Emulation of Linux programs (ARM, SH4, ST200, x86)
Our focus:
TCG (Tiny Code Generator), the QEMU compiler
Motivations
Initial motivations:
Program performance analysiscycles count, profiles, call graphs, …
Profile driven compiler optimizations
I-cache placement, edge profiling, data dep. estimation, …
Other usages:
Program debuggingcall traces, syscall traces, memory checks, …
Processor architecture analysisinstructions usage, cache behavior, …
Program Instrumentation
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Initial program flow
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Trace OutputExecution environment
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Generic TCG IR (LIR)
Binary Translation (i.e. QEMU ARM -> x86)
Host Execution Environment (x86)
QEMU
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QEMU guests & hosts
AlphaArmCrisX86
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MipsPpc
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ST200
ArmHppaX86Ia64MipsPpc
Ppc64S390Sparc
TCGIR
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Execution Time InstrumentationHost Execution Environment
QEMU
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InsTCG Plugins
Exec event
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Instrumented emulated program flow
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Instruction Count Plugin/* A simple plugin for counting executed guest instructions.
* Usage : cc shared –o icount.so icount.c
* qemu-i386 –tcg-plugin ./icount.so the_program
*/
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include « qemu_tpi.h »
uint64_t total_icount;
/* Instruction count updated at each block execution. */
void qemu_tpi_block_execution_event(qemu_tpi_t *tpi) {
total_icount += TPI_tb_icount(tpi);
}
void qemu_tpi_fini(qemu_tpi_t *tpi) {
printf("Instructions: %"PRIu64"\n", total_icount);
}
Translation Time InstrumentationHost Execution Environment
QEMU
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Translation event
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Instrumented emulated program flow
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Inlined Instruction Count Plugin/* The translation event based code for the icount.c plugin. */
void qemu_tpi_block_translation_event(qemu_tpi_t *tpi) {
/* Instruction count update inlined at each block translation.
* Code is generated into the TCG IR buffer directly. */
TPIv_ptr ptr = TPI_const_ptr(tpi, &total_icount);
TPIv_i64 total = TPI_temp_new_i64(tpi);
TPI_gen_ld_i64(tpi, total, ptr, 0);
TPIv_i64 icount = TPI_const_i64(tpi, TPI_tb_icount(tpi));
TPI_gen_add_i64(tpi, total, total, icount);
TPI_temp_free_i64(tpi, icount);
TPI_gen_st_i64(tpi, total, ptr, 0);
TPI_temp_free_i64(tpi, total);
TPI_temp_free_ptr(tpi, ptr);
}
TCG Plugins Command Line
$ qemu-i386 –tcg-plugin icount.so sha1-i386.exe
SHA1=15dd99a1991e0b3826fede3deffc1feba42278e6
Instructions: 107270808
$ proot –Q qemu-sh4 -tcg-plugin icount.so /root-sh4/ sha1-sh4.exe
SHA1=15dd99a1991e0b3826fede3deffc1feba42278e6
Instructions: 166854038
$ proot –Q qemu-arm -tcg-plugin icount.so /root-arm/ sha1-arm.exe
SHA1=15dd99a1991e0b3826fede3deffc1feba42278e6
Instructions: 95419722
proot: a sandboxing tool developed at STM
Profile Plugin Example
$ qemu-i386 –tcg-plugin profile.so sha1-386.exe
SHA1=15dd99a1991e0b3826fede3deffc1feba42278e6
Instrs bytes blocks symbol
106497664 364229691 1792028 SHA1Transform
571297 1815640 133175 SHA1Update
961 3399 168 SHA1Final
23590 85199 6141 main
18 40 3 __libc_csu_init
16 43 5 .init
2093 12552 2087 .plt
55 146 10 .text
12 28 3 .fini
175102 504418 50840 unknown/libc.so.6
Instrumentation Overhead
Emulation cost is x15 (qemu)Instrumentation overhead is 30% (offline) for a I-count pluginOverhead reduced to 3% with translation time interface (inline)
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Emulation of i386 code on a Core 2 Duo @2.0Mhz – SPECINT2000
Contributions
Plugin interface for program instrumentation with QEMU
Per code block and per instruction instrumentation
Execution and translation time events
Access to TCG code generator API
Program and libraries symbol table access
Several plugins
I/D-Cache, I-Count, Profile, PC-sample, IO-mem
Companion tool
PRoot sandboxing tool for easy use in Linux user-mode emulation
Future work
Push to QEMU mainstream
Easier access to debug information
Memory checker plugin
Delinquant load detection (compiler feedback)
Gcov like edge-profile (compiler feedback)
Other compilation oriented usage…
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