How Bochs Works Under the Hood（Bochs是如何工作的引擎盖下面）.pdfVIP

How Bochs Works Under the Hood nd 2 edition By Stanislav Shwartsman and Darek Mihoka Jun 2012 Table of Contents Overview 3 Weird macros and other mysteries 4 static methods hack 4 CPU and memory objects in UP/SMP configurations 5 BX_DEBUG/BX_INFO/BX_ERROR/BX_PANIC -- logging macros5 BX_TICK1, BX_TICKN(n), BX_TICK1_IF_SINGLE_PROCESSOR, BX_SYNC_TIME6 Memory - An Introduction 7 The Basic CPU8 Some of the things we have to emulate - The IA-328 The main CPU loop 9 Decoding instructions is *HARD* 9 bxInstruction_c 9 FetchDecode 10 How exceptions are implemented? 10 Optimizations for performance 11 Guest –to-Host TLB11 Guest –to-Host TLB invalidation 12 Code Prefetching 13 The Anatomy of Memory Accesses 14 Self-modifying code (SMC) detection 16 Trace Cache 17 Trace Cache and Handlers Chaining 18 Typical instruction handler 19 Lazy flags handling 19 Repeat speedups21 TBD 21 Things I lied about 21 Ideas for future 22 Squish out flags handling 22 How to be lazy with addresses 22 combine segment limits with TLB pages 22 Overview The Bochs virtual PC consists of many pieces of hardware. At a bare minimum there are always a CPU, a PIT (Programmable Interval Timer), a PIC (Programmable Interrupt Controller), a DMA controller, some memory (this includes both RAM and BIOS ROMs), a video card (usually VGA), a keyboard port (also handles the mouse), an RTC with battery backed NVRAM, and some extra motherboard circuitry. There might also be a NE2K ethernet card, a PCI controller, a Sound Blaster 16, an IDE controller