trace: Add trace-events file for declaring trace events

This patch introduces the trace-events file where trace events can be
declared like so:

qemu_malloc(size_t size) "size %zu"
qemu_free(void *ptr) "ptr %p"

These trace event declarations are processed by a new tool called
tracetool to generate code for the trace events.  Trace event
declarations are independent of the backend tracing system (LTTng User
Space Tracing, ftrace markers, DTrace).

The default "nop" backend generates empty trace event functions.
Therefore trace events are disabled by default.

The trace-events file serves two purposes:

1. Adding trace events is easy.  It is not necessary to understand the
   details of a backend tracing system.  The trace-events file is a
   single location where trace events can be declared without code
   duplication.

2. QEMU is not tightly coupled to one particular backend tracing system.
   In order to support tracing across QEMU host platforms and to
   anticipate new backend tracing systems that are currently maturing,
   it is important to be flexible and not tied to one system.

This commit includes fixes from Prerna Saxena
<prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com> and Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 146dac02a7..38613c350d 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ pkgversion=""
 check_utests="no"
 user_pie="no"
 zero_malloc=""
+trace_backend="nop"
 
 # OS specific
 if check_define __linux__ ; then
@@ -519,6 +520,8 @@ for opt do
   ;;
   --target-list=*) target_list="$optarg"
   ;;
+  --trace-backend=*) trace_backend="$optarg"
+  ;;
   --enable-gprof) gprof="yes"
   ;;
   --static)
@@ -897,6 +900,7 @@ echo "  --enable-docs            enable documentation build"
 echo "  --disable-docs           disable documentation build"
 echo "  --disable-vhost-net      disable vhost-net acceleration support"
 echo "  --enable-vhost-net       enable vhost-net acceleration support"
+echo "  --trace-backend=B        Trace backend nop"
 echo ""
 echo "NOTE: The object files are built at the place where configure is launched"
 exit 1
@@ -2059,6 +2063,18 @@ if compile_prog "" "" ; then
     fdatasync=yes
 fi
 
+##########################################
+# check if trace backend exists
+
+sh "$source_path/tracetool" "--$trace_backend" --check-backend > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
+if test "$?" -ne 0 ; then
+  echo
+  echo "Error: invalid trace backend"
+  echo "Please choose a supported trace backend."
+  echo
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 # End of CC checks
 # After here, no more $cc or $ld runs
 
@@ -2189,6 +2205,7 @@ echo "preadv support    $preadv"
 echo "fdatasync         $fdatasync"
 echo "uuid support      $uuid"
 echo "vhost-net support $vhost_net"
+echo "Trace backend     $trace_backend"
 
 if test $sdl_too_old = "yes"; then
 echo "-> Your SDL version is too old - please upgrade to have SDL support"
@@ -2450,6 +2467,7 @@ bsd)
 ;;
 esac
 
+echo "TRACE_BACKEND=$trace_backend" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "TOOLS=$tools" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "ROMS=$roms" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "MAKE=$make" >> $config_host_mak