From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhbjV-0002E0-O8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:51:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhbjU-0008Vw-EX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:50:57 -0500 Received: from e23smtp09.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.142]:59873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhbjT-0008Ux-On for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:50:56 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp09.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 07:43:18 +1000 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (d23av01.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.96]) by d23relay05.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q026kFHq3391672 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:46:16 +1100 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q026oRlB027038 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:50:27 +1100 From: Harsh Prateek Bora Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 12:20:18 +0530 Message-Id: <1325487023-10613-1-git-send-email-harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/4] simpletrace : support var num/size of args, strings. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Harsh Prateek Bora , stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Existing simple trace can log upto 6 args per trace event and does not support strings in trace record format. Introducing new trace format as discussed earlier on list to support variable number/size of arguments. (Ref: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-11/msg03426.html) Basic testing of this patch is successful. Stress testing not yet done. Apply patches, then run: make distclean ./configure with --enable-trace-backend=simple make sudo make install TODO: Add suppport for other backends in tracetool.py Harsh Prateek Bora (4): Converting tracetool.sh to tracetool.py Makefile and configure changes for tracetool.py simpletrace-v2: Handle variable number/size of elements per trace record. simpletrace.py: updated log reader script to handle new log format Makefile.objs | 4 +- configure | 4 +- monitor.c | 2 +- scripts/simpletrace.py | 110 ++++++++++++++++-- scripts/tracetool.py | 299 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ trace/simple.c | 178 ++++++++++------------------ trace/simple.h | 31 ++++- 7 files changed, 490 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-) create mode 100755 scripts/tracetool.py