Re: [Qemu-devel] Tracing HMP commands

[Lluís Vilanova]

Eric Blake writes:

> On 08/18/2014 09:10 AM, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
>> Hi! I've been writing some QAPI/QMP commands to control tracing state, and I 
>> was
>> wondering if the HMP commands (trace-event, trace-file and trace-events) can 
>> be
>> dropped, or whether I should adapt them to the new ones.

> We've already documented that HMP is an unstable interface; if it is
> easier for you to drop commands than to retrofit them to cover new QMP,
> it won't hurt my feelings (libvirt only uses QMP).  It boils down to a
> judgment call of whether the ease of convenience for a developer's human
> interface outweighs the burden of maintenance.

So far I've added the QAPI commands:

  trace-event-get-state <pattern> # returns a list of event state descriptors
  trace-event-set-state <pattern> <state> # has no return value

They are used in the corresponding HMP commands "info trace-events" and
"trace-event", respectively. Still, I have not figured out how to propagate QMP
errors to HMP, and I was wondering if I can just drop them even if they are
simple to port (qmp-shell is quite convenient).

What I have not ported is "trace-file", which only works for the simple backend,
and would probably require multiple QAPI commands. I'm in favour of just
dropping this one, together with the backend code that exists only to handle
this command (the st_* functions in "trace/simple.h" can then be static or
dropped).


Thanks,
  Lluis

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