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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] trace: Add support for trace events groupin
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] trace: Add support for trace events grouping |
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Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:16:01 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 04:10:56PM +0800, Mark Wu wrote:
> On 10/13/2011 01:14 AM, Mark Wu wrote:
> >This series add support for trace events grouping. The state of a given group
> >of trace events can be queried or changed in bulk by the following monitor
> >commands:
> >
> >* info trace-groups
> > View available trace event groups and their state. State 1 means enabled,
> > state 0 means disabled.
> >
> >* trace-group NAME on|off
> > Enable/disable a given trace event group.
> >
> >A group of trace events can also be enabled in early running stage through
> >adding its group name prefixed with "group:" to trace events list file
> >which is passed to "-trace events".
> >
> >Mark Wu (6):
> > trace: Make "tracetool" generate a group list
> > trace: Add HMP monitor commands for trace events group
> > trace: Add trace events group implementation in the backend "simple"
> > trace: Add trace events group implementation in the backend "stderr"
> > trace: Enable "-trace events" argument to control initial state of
> > groups
> > trace: Update doc for trace events group
> >
> > docs/tracing.txt | 29 ++++++++++++++--
> > hmp-commands.hx | 14 ++++++++
> > monitor.c | 22 ++++++++++++
> > scripts/tracetool | 94
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > trace-events | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > trace/control.c | 17 +++++++++
> > trace/control.h | 9 +++++
> > trace/default.c | 15 ++++++++
> > trace/simple.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++
> > trace/simple.h | 7 ++++
> > trace/stderr.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++
> > trace/stderr.h | 7 ++++
> > 12 files changed, 359 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> Sorry, there're some coding style problems in the patches. I have
> fixed them and will send out later in order to see if there's any
> other problem coming up. :)
Hi Mark,
Please run scripts/checkpatch.pl on the patches if you haven't already.
It will point out many of the coding style issues.
I think we can get the same convenience by adding wildcard trace event
support. For example, virtio-blk trace events could be enabled using:
trace-event virtio_blk_* on
This doesn't work for the memory allocation functions because their
names do not share a common unique prefix, e.g. g_malloc and
qemu_memalign. However, most related trace events do share a common
unique prefix.
Wildcards don't require special comments in trace-events so it
eliminates the problem of people forgetting to add groups when they add
trace events to QEMU.
The other advantage is that wildcards can select fine-grained sets of
trace events, like ecc_mem_writel_mer, ecc_mem_writel_mdr, etc.
ecc_mem_writel_* selects all these related trace events (they are a
subset of the hw/eccmemctl.c trace events). This is not possible with
the groups patches since each trace-event can only be in one group;
either we have a high-level hw/eccmemctl.c group or a lower-level
ecc_mem_writel group but both is not possible.
I suggest adding wildcard trace event matching instead of adding groups.
The code changes for wildcards should be much smaller than for groups.
What do you think?
Stefan
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] trace: Add support for trace events grouping, Mark Wu, 2011/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] trace: Add HMP monitor commands for trace events group, Mark Wu, 2011/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] trace: Make "tracetool" generate a group list, Mark Wu, 2011/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] trace: Add trace events group implementation in the backend "simple", Mark Wu, 2011/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] trace: Enable "-trace events" argument to control initial state of groups, Mark Wu, 2011/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] trace: Add trace events group implementation in the backend "stderr", Mark Wu, 2011/10/12
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] trace: Update doc for trace events group, Mark Wu, 2011/10/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] trace: Add support for trace events grouping, Mark Wu, 2011/10/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] trace: Add support for trace events grouping,
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