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虚拟机与二进制翻译技术拾遗
虽然项目的成功与否不是技术能决定的，但技术依然长存，最多换个名字。
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NativeBridge - Manage Java Native Interface Functionality of Alternative Architecture on Android
Android, the most popular mobile operating system, hosts applications composed by Java code and native code. Java Virtual Machine of Android provides Java Native Interface functionality as the bridge of Java world and native world. As native world is platform dependent, it requires significant effort for application vendors to enable ARM applications, which are of the majority in Android ecosystem, on Non-ARM devices. Thus, Android is bind to ARM platform though it's a modern operating system. To address this issue, Android introduced NativeBridge to manage the Java Native Interface functionality of alternative architecture, such that a platform can support non-native applications on it. In this way, Android applications can run on any Android platforms regardless of the architecture.
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A Dual-TLB Method for MIPS Heterogeneous Virtualization
DBT directly translates and executes binary programs, enabling a compatible system by virtualizing one machine (guest) on another (host). However, the memory virtualization of guest brings in a great overhead, due to effort it takes to translate GVA into HPA (Host Physical Address). For QEMU, a DBT with efficient memory virtualization mechanism, more than 60% of the translated code is used to virtualize memory, thus leading to a low performance of guest. In this paper, we employ the Co-Design methodology to optimize memory access performance of guest. This optimization is primarily focused on two aspects. First, hardware extensions are designed and implemented to conduct GVA to HPA translation directly. Second, we modify QEMU to cooperate with hardware to reduce translated code. By this means, the cost of memory virtualization is completely eliminated, resulting in a significant enhancement of the performance of the Loongson binary translation system. The experimental data implies that the performance of guest has been dramatically improved by 100 times for peak performance and 19.12% for average performance over the previous system.
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QEMU：一个高速、可移植的动态翻译器
QEMU可以在多种主机（x86, PowerPC, ARM, Sparc Alpha and MIPS）上仿真多种客户机（x86, PowerPC, ARM and Sparc）。通过完备的系统仿真，QEMU支持在虚拟机中运行未经修改的操作系统；通过Linux用户模式仿真，还支持在不同CPU上运行Linux软件。