On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 at 10:13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@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@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp@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