[PATCH v2 05/10] bsd-user: Add '-one-insn-per-tb' option equivalent to '-singlestep'

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&gt; --- NB: not even compile tested! --- docs/user/main.rst | 7 ++++++- bsd-user/main.c | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/user/main.rst b/docs/user/main.rst index f9ac701f4b1..f4786353965 100644 --- a/docs/user/main.rst +++ b/docs/user/main.rst @@ -247,5 +247,10 @@ Debug options: ``-p pagesize`` Act as if the host page size was 'pagesize' bytes +``-one-insn-per-tb`` + Run the emulation with one guest instruction per translation block. + This slows down emulation a lot, but can be useful in some situations, + such as when trying to analyse the logs produced by the ``-d`` option. + ``-singlestep`` - Run the emulation in single step mode. + This is a deprecated synonym for the ``-one-insn-per-tb`` option. diff --git a/bsd-user/main.c b/bsd-user/main.c index a9e5a127d38..9d604a670b7 100644 --- a/bsd-user/main.c +++ b/bsd-user/main.c @@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ static void usage(void) "-d item1[,...] enable logging of specified items\n" " (use '-d help' for a list of log items)\n" "-D logfile write logs to 'logfile' (default stderr)\n" - "-singlestep always run in singlestep mode\n" + "-one-insn-per-tb run with one guest instruction per emulated TB\n" + "-singlestep deprecated synonym for -one-insn-per-tb\n" "-strace log system calls\n" "-trace [[enable=]<pattern>][,events=<file>][,file=<file>]\n" " specify tracing options\n" @@ -385,7 +386,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) (void) envlist_unsetenv(envlist, "LD_PRELOAD"); } else if (!strcmp(r, "seed")) { seed_optarg = optarg; - } else if (!strcmp(r, "singlestep")) { + } else if (!strcmp(r, "singlestep") || !strcmp(r, "one-insn-per-tb") { opt_one_insn_per_tb = true; } else if (!strcmp(r, "strace")) { do_strace = 1; -- 2.34.1