Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 03/24] trace: Let the user specify her own trace-events file

[Lluís Vilanova]

Paolo Bonzini writes:

> Il 21/04/2013 21:11, Lluís Vilanova ha scritto:
>> With this option the user can perform multiple builds of QEMU with different
>> tracing event properties.

> I don't understand why this is useful?  If it is just to add/remove
> "disable" here and there, surely the user should be using git and
> different branches?

Well, you can create multiple build directories that use a different
trace-events file. As you have to explicitly add the "instrument" keyword on
events, I found it handy to have builds with different sorts of events.


Lluis

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