Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 03/11] qemu-log: correct help text for -d cpu

[Richard Henderson]

On 08/04/2015 10:22 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Richard Henderson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> On 08/04/2015 08:15 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 4 August 2015 at 16:11, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>> On 2015-08-03 10:14, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>>>> In practice this is not true for linked TB. Should we also disable TB
>>>>> linking when this option is enabled?
>>>>
>>>> Good question. I suspect yes because if you've gone to level of wanting
>>>> exec tracing you'll probably get confused by the chaining. Of course it
>>>> will run a lot slower then.
>>>
>>> Unless the bug you were trying to track down is caused by the exec
>>> chaining, of course... But yes, I think we get more people wanting
>>> chaining to be disableable.
>>>
>>> Not sure we want to tie it to the 'cpu' debug option, though -- it
>>> applies just as much to 'exec'.
>>
>> Does it make more sense to have a 'nochain' debug option, and not tie it to
>> either 'cpu' or 'exec'?  It might be occasionally useful on its own, simply 
>> to
>> determine if a bug does exist in the exec chaining.
> 
> Would that make sense as a debug option or should we have a specific set
> of TCG options to alter its behaviour?


That's what I'm saying -- probably a separate debug option is better.


r~