From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Gardner Subject: Re: purpose of "setmask" in xenmon? Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:02:36 -0600 Message-ID: <44E1475C.8010109@hp.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0220159488==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Pratt Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, John Levon List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============0220159488== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------030103030108010906000800" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030103030108010906000800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ian Pratt wrote: >> What's the purpose of "setmask" utility? It seems undocumented. Is it >> supposed to be run before running xenbaked? >> The setmask utility is used to change the tracing mask, which is used to limit the events that generate trace records. It is optional. > > I'd love to see someone at least rename or ideally remove the need for > the setmask and setsize utilities... > > Please could someone look into this. I'll add it to the list of things to do to xenmon. Rob --------------030103030108010906000800 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ian Pratt wrote:

What's the purpose of "setmask" utility? It seems undocumented. Is it
supposed to be run before running xenbaked?

The setmask utility is used to change the tracing mask, which is used to limit the events that generate trace records. It is optional.


I'd love to see someone at least rename or ideally remove the need for
the setmask and setsize utilities...

Please could someone look into this.

I'll add it to the list of things to do to xenmon.

Rob

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