Merge tag 'pull-tcg-plugin-memory-190924-1' of https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu into staging

TCG plugin memory instrumentation updates

- deprecate plugins on 32 bit hosts
- deprecate plugins wit

Merge tag 'pull-tcg-plugin-memory-190924-1' of https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu into staging

TCG plugin memory instrumentation updates

- deprecate plugins on 32 bit hosts
- deprecate plugins with TCI
- extend memory API to save value
- add check-tcg tests to exercise new memory API
- fix timer deadlock with non-changing timer
- add basic block vector plugin to contrib
- add cflow plugin to contrib
- extend syscall plugin to dump write memory
- validate ips plugin arguments meet minimum slice value

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* tag 'pull-tcg-plugin-memory-190924-1' of https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu:
contrib/plugins: avoid hanging program
plugins: add option to dump write argument to syscall plugin
plugins: add plugin API to read guest memory
contrib/plugins: Add a plugin to generate basic block vectors
util/timer: avoid deadlock when shutting down
tests/tcg: add a system test to check memory instrumentation
tests/tcg: ensure s390x-softmmu output redirected
tests/tcg: only read/write 64 bit words on 64 bit systems
tests/tcg: clean up output of memory system test
tests/tcg/multiarch: add test for plugin memory access
tests/tcg/plugins/mem: add option to print memory accesses
tests/tcg: allow to check output of plugins
tests/tcg: add mechanism to run specific tests with plugins
plugins: extend API to get latest memory value accessed
plugins: save value during memory accesses
contrib/plugins: control flow plugin
deprecation: don't enable TCG plugins by default with TCI
deprecation: don't enable TCG plugins by default on 32 bit hosts

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

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contrib/plugins: Add a plugin to generate basic block vectors

SimPoint is a widely used tool to find the ideal microarchitecture
simulation points so Valgrind[2] and Pin[3] support generating basic

contrib/plugins: Add a plugin to generate basic block vectors

SimPoint is a widely used tool to find the ideal microarchitecture
simulation points so Valgrind[2] and Pin[3] support generating basic
block vectors for use with them. Let's add a corresponding plugin to
QEMU too.

Note that this plugin has a different goal with tests/plugin/bb.c.

This plugin creates a vector for each constant interval instead of
counting the execution of basic blocks for the entire run and able to
describe the change of execution behavior. Its output is also
syntactically simple and better suited for parsing, while the output of
tests/plugin/bb.c is more human-readable.

[1] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~calder/simpoint/
[2] https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/bbv-manual.html
[3] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/pin-a-dynamic-binary-instrumentation-tool.html

Signed-off-by: Yotaro Nada <yotaro.nada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240816-bb-v3-1-b9aa4a5c75c5@daynix.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240916085400.1046925-16-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

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