Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 7/7] qemu-log: add nochain option to disable TB chaining

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 28 March 2014 16:43, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The current exec and cpu flags only show information when we enter a
>> TranslationBlock. The blocks will then chain together until there is a
>> reason to exit which can make things harder to follow. This new option
>> disables the chaining for debugging purposes.
>>
>> +    { CPU_LOG_TB_NOCHAIN, "nochain",
>> +      "disable chaining of translation blocks (better tracing, but slower)" 
>> },
>
> I know it's a convenient place to put it, but it's not really
> a tracing option so I'm a bit dubious about putting it in
> the log flags...

Yeah I know, but I didn't really want to make a new tcg opts set of
flags as it's more of logging clarity kinda option. Of course this
glosses over the fact it is also useful for tcg trace-events (when I
send them).

Is it time to expose a set of TCG fiddling variables?

>
> thanks
> -- PMM

-- 
Alex Bennée