This patch adds a simple tracer which produces binary trace files. To
try out the simple backend:
$ ./configure --trace-backend=simple
$ make
After running QEMU you can pretty-print the trace:
$ ./simpletrace.py trace-events trace.log
The output of simpletrace.py looks like this:
qemu_realloc 0.699 ptr=0x24363f0 size=0x3 newptr=0x24363f0
qemu_free 0.768 ptr=0x24363f0
^ ^---- timestamp delta (us)
|____ trace event name
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
trace: Make trace record fields 64-bit
Explicitly use 64-bit fields in trace records so that timestamps and
magic numbers work for 32-bit host builds.
Includes fixes from Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>.
Signed-off-by: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch introduces the trace-events file where trace events can be
declared like so:
qemu_malloc(size_t size) "size %zu"
qemu_free(void *ptr) "ptr %p"
These trace event declarations are processed by a new tool called
tracetool to generate code for the trace events. Trace event
declarations are independent of the backend tracing system (LTTng User
Space Tracing, ftrace markers, DTrace).
The default "nop" backend generates empty trace event functions.
Therefore trace events are disabled by default.
The trace-events file serves two purposes:
1. Adding trace events is easy. It is not necessary to understand the
details of a backend tracing system. The trace-events file is a
single location where trace events can be declared without code
duplication.
2. QEMU is not tightly coupled to one particular backend tracing system.
In order to support tracing across QEMU host platforms and to
anticipate new backend tracing systems that are currently maturing,
it is important to be flexible and not tied to one system.
This commit includes fixes from Prerna Saxena
<prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com> and Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
