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| author | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> | 2011-11-01 13:08:33 -0500 |
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| committer | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> | 2011-11-01 13:08:33 -0500 |
| commit | 540903ed8e025cc0c126b87ce41012634ce325a3 (patch) | |
| tree | ce10253ecf5635d92f3f71981d2853cadc125513 /docs | |
| parent | 10dcfbd327aaf867c5d1053b42fdb2e298888f6b (diff) | |
| parent | 41cb83840f92b8c643fdb7692cb21293b380a89f (diff) | |
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'stefanha/tracing' into staging
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diff --git a/docs/tracing.txt b/docs/tracing.txt index 95ca16c05d..ea29f2c222 100644 --- a/docs/tracing.txt +++ b/docs/tracing.txt @@ -132,12 +132,19 @@ This functionality is also provided through monitor commands: means disabled. * trace-event NAME on|off - Enable/disable a given trace event. + Enable/disable a given trace event or a group of events having common prefix + through wildcard. 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 + == Trace backends == The "tracetool" script automates tedious trace event code generation and also |