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diff --git a/docs/tracing.txt b/docs/tracing.txt index 14db3bffb4..cf53c173ec 100644 --- a/docs/tracing.txt +++ b/docs/tracing.txt @@ -100,49 +100,37 @@ respectively. This ensures portability between 32- and 64-bit platforms. == Generic interface and monitor commands == -You can programmatically query and control the dynamic state of trace events -through a backend-agnostic interface: +You can programmatically query and control the state of trace events through a +backend-agnostic interface provided by the header "trace/control.h". -* trace_print_events +Note that some of the backends do not provide an implementation for some parts +of this interface, in which case QEMU will just print a warning (please refer to +header "trace/control.h" to see which routines are backend-dependent). -* trace_event_set_state - Enables or disables trace events at runtime inside QEMU. - The function returns "true" if the state of the event has been successfully - changed, or "false" otherwise: - - #include "trace/control.h" - - trace_event_set_state("virtio_irq", true); /* enable */ - [...] - trace_event_set_state("virtio_irq", false); /* disable */ - -Note that some of the backends do not provide an implementation for this -interface, in which case QEMU will just print a warning. - -This functionality is also provided through monitor commands: +The state of events can also be queried and modified through monitor commands: * info trace-events View available trace events and their state. State 1 means enabled, state 0 means disabled. * trace-event NAME on|off - Enable/disable a given trace event or a group of events having common prefix - through wildcard. + Enable/disable a given trace event or a group of events (using wildcards). The "-trace events=<file>" command line argument can be used to enable the events listed in <file> from the very beginning of the program. This file must contain one event name per line. -A basic wildcard matching is supported in both the monitor command "trace --event" and the events list file. That means you can enable/disable the events -having a common prefix in a batch. For example, virtio-blk trace events could -be enabled using: - trace-event virtio_blk_* on - If a line in the "-trace events=<file>" file begins with a '-', the trace event will be disabled instead of enabled. This is useful when a wildcard was used to enable an entire family of events but one noisy event needs to be disabled. +Wildcard matching is supported in both the monitor command "trace-event" and the +events list file. That means you can enable/disable the events having a common +prefix in a batch. For example, virtio-blk trace events could be enabled using +the following monitor command: + + trace-event virtio_blk_* on + == Trace backends == The "tracetool" script automates tedious trace event code generation and also @@ -263,3 +251,7 @@ guard such computations and avoid its compilation when the event is disabled: } return ptr; } + +You can check both if the event has been disabled and is dynamically enabled at +the same time using the 'trace_event_get_state' routine (see header +"trace/control.h" for more information). |