Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] trace: allow trace events with string arguments

2011-09-07 Thread Blue Swirl
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 07:45:36PM +, Blue Swirl wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: String arguments are useful for producing human-readable traces without

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] trace: allow trace events with string arguments

2011-09-05 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
String arguments are useful for producing human-readable traces without post-processing (e.g. stderr backend). Although the simple backend cannot handles strings all others can. Strings should be allowed and the simple backend can be extended to support them. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] trace: allow trace events with string arguments

2011-09-05 Thread Blue Swirl
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: String arguments are useful for producing human-readable traces without post-processing (e.g. stderr backend).  Although the simple backend cannot handles strings all others can.  Strings should be allowed and

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] trace: allow trace events with string arguments

2011-09-05 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-09-05 21:45, Blue Swirl wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: String arguments are useful for producing human-readable traces without post-processing (e.g. stderr backend). Although the simple backend cannot handles strings all