Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv1 0/4] Timers: add timer debugging through -timer-debug-log

2013-10-26 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 26/10/2013 10:24, Alex Bligh ha scritto: > How do timer_file and timer_line get filled in? If those still > need to be put in through code changes, how about taking > patch 1 of the series (that fills in timer->dbg with this > information), save for the unnecessary additions to the structure, >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv1 0/4] Timers: add timer debugging through -timer-debug-log

2013-10-26 Thread Alex Bligh
Paolo, On 26 Oct 2013, at 08:18, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > The simple trace backend includes a nanosecond value that is the same as > rt_clock, so you can correlate the last timer_mod with the next > iteration in timerlist_run_timers (I would put the tracepoint inside the > loop, just before the cal

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv1 0/4] Timers: add timer debugging through -timer-debug-log

2013-10-26 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 26/10/2013 06:52, Alex Bligh ha scritto: > > On 26 Oct 2013, at 00:00, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> his is a bug in the distro, if it is Linux. There is no reason not to >> enable the stap trace format when running on Linux (Fedora does for >> other packages than QEMU, too---most notably glib an

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv1 0/4] Timers: add timer debugging through -timer-debug-log

2013-10-25 Thread Alex Bligh
On 26 Oct 2013, at 00:00, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > his is a bug in the distro, if it is Linux. There is no reason not to > enable the stap trace format when running on Linux (Fedora does for > other packages than QEMU, too---most notably glib and glibc). > > If it is useful, adding debugging info

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv1 0/4] Timers: add timer debugging through -timer-debug-log

2013-10-25 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 25/10/2013 23:30, Alex Bligh ha scritto: > This patch set adds facilities for debugging timers using the additional > command line option -timer-debug-log=FILE. If this option is selected, > a debugging file will be written showing information about the current > state of timers in the system, w

[Qemu-devel] [PATCHv1 0/4] Timers: add timer debugging through -timer-debug-log

2013-10-25 Thread Alex Bligh
This patch set adds facilities for debugging timers using the additional command line option -timer-debug-log=FILE. If this option is selected, a debugging file will be written showing information about the current state of timers in the system, which the author feels will be useful for debugging i