Patchwork [3/4] trace: always use the "nop" backend on events with the "disable" keyword

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Submitter =?utf-8?Q?Llu=C3=ADs?=
Date March 27, 2011, 7:43 p.m.
Message ID <20110327194325.622.66779.stgit@ginnungagap.bsc.es>
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=?utf-8?Q?Llu=C3=ADs?= - March 27, 2011, 7:43 p.m.
Any event with the keyword/property "disable" generates an empty trace event
using the "nop" backend, regardless of the current backend.

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
---
 docs/tracing.txt  |    3 +++
 scripts/tracetool |   15 ++-------------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/docs/tracing.txt b/docs/tracing.txt
index 5dbd3c0..49e030e 100644
--- a/docs/tracing.txt
+++ b/docs/tracing.txt
@@ -126,6 +126,9 @@  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.
 
+Note that regardless of the selected trace backend, events with the "disable"
+property will be generated with the "nop" backend.
+
 === Stderr ===
 
 The "stderr" backend sends trace events directly to standard error.  This
diff --git a/scripts/tracetool b/scripts/tracetool
index 6d8ead2..7506776 100755
--- a/scripts/tracetool
+++ b/scripts/tracetool
@@ -506,21 +506,10 @@  convert()
         # Skip comments and empty lines
         test -z "${str%%#*}" && continue
 
+        echo
         # Process the line.  The nop backend handles disabled lines.
-        disable="0"
         if has_property "$str" "disable"; then
-            disable="1"
-        fi
-        echo
-        if [ "$disable" = "1" ]; then
-            # Pass the disabled state as an arg for the simple
-            # or DTrace backends which handle it dynamically.
-            # For all other backends, call lineto$1_nop()
-            if [ $backend = "simple" -o "$backend" = "dtrace" ]; then
-                "$process_line" "$str"
-            else
-                "lineto$1_nop" "${str##disable }"
-            fi
+            "lineto$1_nop" "$str"
         else
             "$process_line" "$str"
         fi