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    simpletrace: Thread-safe tracing · 0b5538c3
    Stefan Hajnoczi 提交于
    Trace events outside the global mutex cannot be used with the simple
    trace backend since it is not thread-safe.  There is no check to prevent
    them being enabled so people sometimes learn this the hard way.
    
    This patch restructures the simple trace backend with a ring buffer
    suitable for multiple concurrent writers.  A writeout thread empties the
    trace buffer when threshold fill levels are reached.  Should the
    writeout thread be unable to keep up with trace generation, records will
    simply be dropped.
    
    Each time events are dropped a special record is written to the trace
    file indicating how many events were dropped.  The event ID is
    0xfffffffffffffffe and its signature is dropped(uint32_t count).
    Signed-off-by: NStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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