Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261744AbUCGDAE (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:00:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261745AbUCGDAD (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:00:03 -0500 Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net ([64.164.98.52]:1775 "EHLO mtaw4.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261744AbUCGC76 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2004 21:59:58 -0500 Message-ID: <404A900B.4020105@matchmail.com> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 18:59:23 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040209) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Bradford CC: Timothy Miller , root@chaos.analogic.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel 'simulator' and wave-form analysis tool? References: <4048B36E.8000605@techsource.com> <4048CC7F.4070009@techsource.com> <200403061113.i26BDHrs000517@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200403061113.i26BDHrs000517@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 863 Lines: 19 John Bradford wrote: >>I must have been unclear. I was not suggesting adding hardware. I was >>suggesting that we could run Linux under Bochs, which is a software x86 >>emulator. Being what it is, hooks can be added to track "cpu activity" >>is it occurs within the emulator. This is all a simulation. The key >>idea I was suggesting was to log processor activity (of the emulator) >>and develop a viewer program which would help people visualize the activity. > > > Doesn't Valgrind already do most of what you want? Can you valgrind a UML process? Tim, what will this give you that a stack trace won't? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/