Tag Archives: cpuid

Hacking Valgrind

This post talks about 3 commits I have recently added into my own valgrind tree [1], including the support for fsgsbase instructions, rdrand/rdseed instructions, and adding a new trapdoor (client request) to support gdb-like add-symbol-file command. Note that all these … Continue reading

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Kernel Code Execution Time Measurement (kcetm)

This post mainly talks about the correct usage of tsc counters provided by Intel x86/x86-64 architectures to measure the Linux kernel code execution time. Most of the content here is borrowed/inspired from [1]. Note that this is NOT a post … Continue reading

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