Looking for GUI application programs for experiments
William Cohen
wcohen at redhat.com
Wed May 16 18:47:34 UTC 2007
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:28:15PM -0400, William Cohen wrote:
>> linked programs like SPEC CPU to provide workload for the simulator. This
>> is very different than the typical shared-library, GUI application
>
> You know you can catch TLB misses on some real x86 processors I assume ?
>
> (You load the page table entry as missing then when you take the trap you
> put the entry in, touch the page to load it, and then mark it missing again)
>
> Alan
>
Hi Alan,
This method would address some of the for future work: how to speed up the data
collection and avoid the distortions caused by the addition mmap regions
valgrind pulls in.
I think that there have been some previous research implementing this, e.g. Tape
Worm. Just thinking how this TLB trap handling would work for the following cases:
instructions spanning pages
instructions with data reference (two (or more) page accesses)
The ability not to need a dedicated machine did factor into the choice. The use
of Valgrind was also influence about what students are comfortable with.
Modifying valgrind, a user-space only tool, is a bit easier when things don't
work correctly for a student.
-Will
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