update the FAQ section with a how-to enable the logging
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In theory, `UC_TLB_VIRTUAL` will achieve better performance as it skips all MMU details, though not benchmarked.
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In theory, `UC_TLB_VIRTUAL` will achieve better performance as it skips all MMU details, though not benchmarked.
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## Something is wrong - I would like to dig deeper
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Unicorn uses at several places logging by the qemu implementation.
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This might provide a first glance what could be wrong.
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The logs contains optionally the filename and the line number including
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additional messages to indicate what is happening.
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However, the qemu logs are partially commented-out and incomplete, but give it a try.
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You might want to dig deeper - and add your own log messages where you expect or try to find the bug.
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See the `unicorn/qemu/include/qemu/log.h` file for details.
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To enable logs, you must recompile Unicorn with the enabled `LOGGING_ENABLED` define.
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Logs are written in different log levels, which might result into a very verbose logging if enabled.
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To control the log level information, two environment variables could be used.
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`UNICORN_LOG_LEVEL` and `UNICORN_LOG_DETAIL_LEVEL`.
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These environment variables are parsed into `uint32_t` values once, (due to performance reasons)
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so set these environment variables before you execute any line of Unicorn.
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Allowed are hexa-decimal, decimal and octal values, which fits into a buffer of 10 chars. (see stroul for details).
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To define how detailed and what should be logged, use the following environment variables:
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- `UNICORN_LOG_LEVEL`=\<32bit mask\>
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- The qemu bit mask what should be logged.
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- Use the value of `UINT32_MAX` to log everything.
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- If no bit is set in the mask, there will be no logging.
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- `UNICORN_LOG_DETAIL_LEVEL`=\<level\>
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- The level defines how the filename and line is constructed.
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- 0: no filename and no line is used.
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- 1: full filename including the leading path is used with line information.
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- 2: just the filename with line information. It might be a little confusing,
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as the file name can be used in several places.
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- If unsure or unwanted, leave this variable undefined or set it to 0.
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As an example to set up the environment for python correctly, see the example below.
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```python
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import os
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os.environ['UNICORN_LOG_LEVEL'] = "0xFFFFFFFF" # verbose - print anything
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os.environ['UNICORN_LOG_DETAIL_LEVEL'] = "1" # full filename with line info
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```
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Please note that file names are statically compiled in and can reveal the paths
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of the file system used during compilation.
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## My code does not do what I would expect - is this a bug?
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Please create an github issue and provide as much details as possible.
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- [ ] Simplified version of your script / source
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- Make sure that "no" external dependencies are needed.
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- E.g. remove additional use of capstone or CTF tools.
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- [ ] Used Unicorn git-hash commit
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- Make sure to exclude any changes of you made in unicorn.
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- Alternativily provide the repo link to your commit.
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- [ ] Detailed explaination what is expected
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- Try to verify if the instructions can be processed by qemu.
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- Dumping the registers of unicorn and qemu helps a lot.
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- [ ] Detailed explaination what is observed
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- Describe what's going on (and what you might think about it).
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- [ ] Output from your executed script
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- You might have additional log messages which could be helpful.
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- [ ] Output from the qemu-logs
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- Try to gather more informations by enabling the qemu logging.
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- [ ] More details
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- Attach more details to help reproduce the bug.
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- Like attaching a repo link to the CTF challenge containing the binary or source code.
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## I'd like to make contributions, where do I start?
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## I'd like to make contributions, where do I start?
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See [milestones](https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/milestones) and [coding convention](https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/wiki/Coding-Convention
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See [milestones](https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/milestones) and [coding convention](https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn/wiki/Coding-Convention
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