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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2016-01-07 16:55:26 +0300
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2016-02-03 09:19:09 +0000
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trace: add "-trace enable=..."
Allow enabling events without going through a file, for example:

   qemu-system-x86_64 -trace bdrv_aio_writev -trace bdrv_aio_readv

or with globbing too:

   qemu-system-x86_64 -trace 'bdrv_aio_*'

if an appropriate backend is enabled (simple, stderr, ftrace).

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Message-id: 1452174932-28657-6-git-send-email-den@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index cbb4590ef7..35dc725958 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -3544,7 +3544,7 @@ config files on @var{sysconfdir}, but won't make it skip the QEMU-provided confi
 files from @var{datadir}.
 ETEXI
 DEF("trace", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_trace,
-    "-trace [events=<file>][,file=<file>]\n"
+    "-trace [[enable=]<pattern>][,events=<file>][,file=<file>]\n"
     "                specify tracing options\n",
     QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
 STEXI
@@ -3556,6 +3556,14 @@ HXCOMM HX does not support conditional compilation of text.
 Specify tracing options.
 
 @table @option
+@item [enable=]@var{pattern}
+Immediately enable events matching @var{pattern}.
+The file must contain one event name (as listed in the @file{trace-events} file)
+per line; globbing patterns are accepted too.  This option is only
+available if QEMU has been compiled with the @var{simple}, @var{stderr}
+or @var{ftrace} tracing backend.  To specify multiple events or patterns,
+specify the @option{-trace} option multiple times.
+
 @item events=@var{file}
 Immediately enable events listed in @var{file}.
 The file must contain one event name (as listed in the @file{trace-events} file)