Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v1 8/9] util/qemu-thread-*: add qemu_lock, locked and unlock trace events

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 04:59:58PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 05/05/2017 12:38, Alex Bennée wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
> >
> > Can you look at the patch I just sent a pull request for?  It only has
> > locked and unlocked trace events, you can add lock on top.
> 
> Cool - great minds think alike ;-)
> 
> I'll re-spin my trace analysis script and the lock trace point once that
> pull request is merged. I would be nice if we could associate locks with
> names though as the QemuMutex * is basically just an anonymous handle.
> Would it be overly extravagant to add a const char * to QemuMutex to can
> be init'ed with a human readable name?
> 
> Stefan,
> 
> Does the trace sub-system have any way to register a human readable
> string to a given pointer value? I guess this is something that could be
> added to the trace pre-amble?

No, it doesn't.  I would make the trace event take const char * and pass
in the string.

Stefan

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