Hi, On 18/9/24 23:06, Alex Bennée wrote:
The softmmu memory instrumentation test sees so many more accesses than a normal translated host and its really not worth fixing up. Lets deprecate this odd configuration and save on the CI cycles.
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20240916085400.1046925-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 809b2b9b81..c0aa52def5 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -196,6 +196,14 @@ benefits from having plenty of host memory it seems reasonable to encourage users to use 64 bit builds of QEMU for analysis work whatever targets they are instrumenting.
+TCG Plugin support not enabled by default with TCI (since 9.2) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +While the TCG interpreter can interpret the TCG ops used by plugins it +is going to be so much slower it wouldn't make sense for any serious +instrumentation. Due to implementation differences there will also be +anomalies in things like memory instrumentation.
FYI we'll enter soft-freeze for the 11.0 release soon ;)