On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 10:13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd(a)linaro.org> wrote:
On 17/4/23 18:40, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The '-singlestep' option is confusing, because it doesn't actually
> have anything to do with single-stepping the CPU. What it does do
> is force TCG emulation to put one guest instruction in each TB,
> which can be useful in some situations.
>
> Create a new command line argument -one-insn-per-tb, so we can
> document that -singlestep is just a deprecated synonym for it,
> and eventually perhaps drop it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell(a)linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com>
> ---
> docs/user/main.rst | 7 ++++++-
> linux-user/main.c | 9 ++++++---
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> @@ -500,8 +500,11 @@ static const struct qemu_argument arg_table[] = {
> "logfile", "write logs to 'logfile' (default
stderr)"},
> {"p", "QEMU_PAGESIZE", true,
handle_arg_pagesize,
> "pagesize", "set the host page size to
'pagesize'"},
> - {"singlestep", "QEMU_SINGLESTEP", false,
handle_arg_singlestep,
> - "", "run in singlestep mode"},
> + {"one-insn-per-tb",
> + "QEMU_ONE_INSN_PER_TB", false,
handle_arg_one_insn_per_tb,
> + "", "run with one guest instruction per emulated
TB"},
> + {"singlestep", "QEMU_SINGLESTEP", false,
handle_arg_one_insn_per_tb,
> + "", "deprecated synonym for -one-insn-per-tb"},
Maybe worth mentioning QEMU_ONE_INSN_PER_TB too here:
"deprecated synonyms for -one-insn-per-tb and QEMU_ONE_INSN_PER_TB"
There's not a lot of space in the -help output, and I think in
context it's clear enough without.
thanks
-- PMM