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Record and Replay Framework
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Deferred recording with full CPU multithreading before recording #3549

Open ojura opened 1 year ago

ojura commented 1 year ago

This is a feature which Undo supports and I was hoping would get implemented into rr some day.

If the failure point is known to happen after a significant amount of multithreaded processing, it makes sense not to instrument/record that part and let the app run natively at full speed, utilizing all the CPU cores.

Then we can break before failure and start recording. Undo achieves this by having the user launch their interactive gdb session with a deferred recording option; the binary is then run with full speed; we break before failure, and issue a command which starts recording and makes us single-threaded and incur the recording performance hit. When time-travel debugging, it is obviously not possible to go before the start of recording, which is event 0.

rocallahan commented 1 year ago

This could work but it would be a lot of work.