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    trace: Add trace-file command to open/close/flush trace file · c5ceb523
    Stefan Hajnoczi authored
    
    
    This patch adds the trace-file command:
    
      trace-file [on|off|flush]
    
      Open, close, or flush the trace file.  If no argument is given,
      the status of the trace file is displayed.
    
    The trace file is turned on by default but is only written out when the
    trace buffer becomes full.  The flush operation can be used to force
    write out at any time.
    
    Turning off the trace file does not change the state of trace events;
    tracing will continue to the trace buffer.  When the trace file is off,
    use "info trace" to display the contents of the trace buffer in memory.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    
    This commit also contains the trace-file sub-command from the following
    commit:
    
    commit 5ce8d1a957afae2c52ad748944ce72848ccf57bd
    Author: Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Date:   Wed Aug 4 16:23:54 2010 +0530
    
        trace: Add options to specify trace file name at startup and runtime
    
        This patch adds an optional command line switch '-trace' to specify the
        filename to write traces to, when qemu starts.
        Eg, If compiled with the 'simple' trace backend,
        [temp@system]$ qemu -trace FILENAME IMAGE
        Allows the binary traces to be written to FILENAME instead of the option
        set at config-time.
    
        Also, this adds monitor sub-command 'set' to trace-file commands to
        dynamically change trace log file at runtime.
        Eg,
        (qemu)trace-file set FILENAME
        This allows one to set trace outputs to FILENAME from the default
        specified at startup.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPrerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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