From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57988) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Se3Ju-0001OE-6V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:02:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Se3Jn-0005i6-U7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:02:05 -0400 Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f45.google.com ([209.85.215.45]:56238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Se3Jn-0005hi-JL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:01:59 -0400 Received: by lahc1 with SMTP id c1so3006599lah.4 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:01:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87oboq2jcj.fsf@fimbulvetr.bsc.es> References: <20120508143813.18271.15731.stgit@fimbulvetr.bsc.es> <87oboq2jcj.fsf@fimbulvetr.bsc.es> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:01:56 +0100 Message-ID: From: Stefan Hajnoczi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/7] trace: Generic event state description List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Llu=EDs_Vilanova?= Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Llu=EDs Vilanova wr= ote: > Stefan Hajnoczi writes: > >> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Llu=EDs Vilanova w= rote: >>> Provides a generic event state description and a more detailed event co= ntrol and >>> query interface. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Llu=EDs Vilanova >>> --- > [...] >> What is the point of sstate vs dstate? =A0It seems the dynamic state is >> what can be toggled and sstate is the "disable" keyword. =A0Why have >> sstate since there is already a macro? > > 'sstate' is there just in case you query the tracing state of an event th= rough > the 'TraceEvent' structure instead of through the corresponding macro. If this is not used by a tracer today we should hold off until it's needed. Stefan