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Commit 3b0fc80d authored by Peter Maydell's avatar Peter Maydell Committed by Stefan Hajnoczi
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docs/tracing.txt: Update documentation of default backend


In commit baf86d6b we switched the default trace backend from "nop"
to "log". Update the documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1478276837-31780-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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......@@ -150,13 +150,16 @@ The trace backends are chosen at configure time:
For a list of supported trace backends, try ./configure --help or see below.
If multiple backends are enabled, the trace is sent to them all.
If no backends are explicitly selected, configure will default to the
"log" backend.
The following subsections describe the supported trace backends.
=== Nop ===
The "nop" backend generates empty trace event functions so that the compiler
can optimize out trace events completely. This is the default and imposes no
performance penalty.
can optimize out trace events completely. This imposes no performance
penalty.
Note that regardless of the selected trace backend, events with the "disable"
property will be generated with the "nop" backend.
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