Dynamic binary translation in a type-II hypervisor for Cavium Octeon MIPS64 based systems

Author

Qurrat-ul-Ain ; Anwar, Usama ; Usmani, Asad R. ; Qadeer, Abdul ; Mustafa, Ghulam ; Waheed, Abdul

Author_Institution

Al-Khwarizmi Inst. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Lahore, Pakistan

fYear

2015

fDate

June 28 2015-July 1 2015

Firstpage

417

Lastpage

422

Abstract

Dynamic binary translation (DBT) has been used in various applications that range from system-level virtualization to cross-platform application execution. It has also been used in kernel profiling/tracing and security applications. In this paper, we discuss multiple DBT strategies that were implemented during the development of a type-II hypervisor for Cavium Octeon MIPS64 based systems, along with their pros and cons. Poor timing performance of virtualized system was the major reason for re-factoring different design strategies. Our current block-level dynamic binary translation has proven to be better among the others.

Keywords

multiprocessing systems; program interpreters; virtual machines; virtualisation; Cavium Octeon MIPS64 based systems; DBT; block-level dynamic binary translation; cross-platform application execution; design strategies; kernel profiling; kernel tracing; security applications; system-level virtualization; type-II hypervisor; Emulation; Hardware; Kernel; Registers; Virtual machine monitors; Virtualization; Dynamic binary translation; MIPS64; virtual machine; virtualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Science (ICIS), 2015 IEEE/ACIS 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIS.2015.7166630

Filename

7166630