Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] scripts/qemu-gdb: Add support for printing trace events

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 September 2015 at 07:52, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 14/05/2015 18:43, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Add two new commands to our gdb support:
>>  qemu trace-enable eventname
>>  qemu trace-disable eventname
>>
>> which allow dynamically enabling and disabling printing of QEMU
>> trace events during a debugging session. These work with the
>> "null" trace backend, by putting breakpoints on the stub
>> trace_eventname() functions.
>>

> what happened to this patch?

Stefan suggested that it was basically a manual reimplementation
of gdb's support for static probepoints via systemtap/dtrace,
so I put it to one side til I had time to investigate that gdb
functionality. I committed the patches which were refactoring
the script into modules, though.

thanks
-- PMM