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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/7] trace: Generic event state description
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Lluís Vilanova |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/7] trace: Generic event state description |
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Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:12:12 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Hajnoczi writes:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Lluís Vilanova <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Provides a generic event state description and a more detailed event control
>> and
>> query interface.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <address@hidden>
>> ---
[...]
> What is the point of sstate vs dstate? It seems the dynamic state is
> what can be toggled and sstate is the "disable" keyword. Why have
> sstate since there is already a macro?
'sstate' is there just in case you query the tracing state of an event through
the 'TraceEvent' structure instead of through the corresponding macro.
Lluis
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