Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] trace: [simple] always enable trace points

[Lluís]

Last time there was discussion on disabling all tracee points in simple
by default, but providing an argument for a list of trace point to
enable at startup.

Instead, what I've done is enabling all trace points in simple by
default.

Given that "disable" will effectively disable all points, including the
dtrace backend, my question is what is preferred:

* leave it as it is in this patch
  * leave all points as disabled, so the user has to remove the
    "disable" regardless of the backend
  * simple acts as stderr, all non-disabled points will generate output

* remove the "disable" on all events
  * for any backend with trace point "states" leave the state as
    disabled by default (dynamically enabling them is a backendspecific
    operation, when supported)
  * this means implementing the event list argument for the simple
    backend in order to easily enable a set of events at program startup


Lluis

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