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authorPeter Maydell2020-12-14 21:32:38 +0100
committerPeter Maydell2020-12-14 21:32:38 +0100
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/vivier2/tags/trivial-branch-for-6.0-pull-request' into staging
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diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index e60ad42976..ae8872d1d6 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -3958,30 +3958,34 @@ SRST
ERST
DEF("icount", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_icount, \
- "-icount [shift=N|auto][,align=on|off][,sleep=on|off,rr=record|replay,rrfile=<filename>,rrsnapshot=<snapshot>]\n" \
+ "-icount [shift=N|auto][,align=on|off][,sleep=on|off][,rr=record|replay,rrfile=<filename>[,rrsnapshot=<snapshot>]]\n" \
" enable virtual instruction counter with 2^N clock ticks per\n" \
" instruction, enable aligning the host and virtual clocks\n" \
- " or disable real time cpu sleeping\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
+ " or disable real time cpu sleeping, and optionally enable\n" \
+ " record-and-replay mode\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
SRST
-``-icount [shift=N|auto][,rr=record|replay,rrfile=filename,rrsnapshot=snapshot]``
+``-icount [shift=N|auto][,align=on|off][,sleep=on|off][,rr=record|replay,rrfile=filename[,rrsnapshot=snapshot]]``
Enable virtual instruction counter. The virtual cpu will execute one
instruction every 2^N ns of virtual time. If ``auto`` is specified
then the virtual cpu speed will be automatically adjusted to keep
virtual time within a few seconds of real time.
- When the virtual cpu is sleeping, the virtual time will advance at
- default speed unless ``sleep=on|off`` is specified. With
- ``sleep=on|off``, the virtual time will jump to the next timer
- deadline instantly whenever the virtual cpu goes to sleep mode and
- will not advance if no timer is enabled. This behavior give
- deterministic execution times from the guest point of view.
-
Note that while this option can give deterministic behavior, it does
not provide cycle accurate emulation. Modern CPUs contain
superscalar out of order cores with complex cache hierarchies. The
number of instructions executed often has little or no correlation
with actual performance.
+ When the virtual cpu is sleeping, the virtual time will advance at
+ default speed unless ``sleep=on`` is specified. With
+ ``sleep=on``, the virtual time will jump to the next timer
+ deadline instantly whenever the virtual cpu goes to sleep mode and
+ will not advance if no timer is enabled. This behavior gives
+ deterministic execution times from the guest point of view.
+ The default if icount is enabled is ``sleep=off``.
+ ``sleep=on`` cannot be used together with either ``shift=auto``
+ or ``align=on``.
+
``align=on`` will activate the delay algorithm which will try to
synchronise the host clock and the virtual clock. The goal is to
have a guest running at the real frequency imposed by the shift
@@ -3991,15 +3995,17 @@ SRST
``shift`` is ``auto``. Note: The sync algorithm will work for those
shift values for which the guest clock runs ahead of the host clock.
Typically this happens when the shift value is high (how high
- depends on the host machine).
-
- When ``rr`` option is specified deterministic record/replay is
- enabled. Replay log is written into filename file in record mode and
- read from this file in replay mode.
-
- Option rrsnapshot is used to create new vm snapshot named snapshot
- at the start of execution recording. In replay mode this option is
- used to load the initial VM state.
+ depends on the host machine). The default if icount is enabled
+ is ``align=off``.
+
+ When the ``rr`` option is specified deterministic record/replay is
+ enabled. The ``rrfile=`` option must also be provided to
+ specify the path to the replay log. In record mode data is written
+ to this file, and in replay mode it is read back.
+ If the ``rrsnapshot`` option is given then it specifies a VM snapshot
+ name. In record mode, a new VM snapshot with the given name is created
+ at the start of execution recording. In replay mode this option
+ specifies the snapshot name used to load the initial VM state.
ERST
DEF("watchdog", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_watchdog, \