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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2023-04-17 17:40:36 +0100
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2023-05-02 15:47:40 +0100
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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@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Message-id: 20230417164041.684562-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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@@ -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.