Compound debug flags are intended to be a way to enable or disable a
group of simple debug flags at once, so that you don't need to enumerate
every more specialized flag in an area to get a broad amount of
debugging, nor do you give up the ability to select a general area
easily by making more specific flags.
It doesn't, however, make a lot of sense to check the value of a
compound debug flag, since it could be enabled but then have individual
subflags disabled. Exactly whether that means the compound flag should
be enabled or not is not clear, and figuring it out takes a fair amount
of work since each member simple flag needs to be visited.
Also, by having different behavior depending on the flag type, the
"enabled" method needed to be virtual.
This change eliminates the virtual method and moves the _tracing bool
member into the base class. If a subclass (only SimpleFlag currently)
wants to start or stop tracing based on itself, it should set or clear
this flag. Also, the "enabled" method has been renamed to "tracing",
since that's actually what it tracked. Being enabled by itself is not
sufficient to be tracing since there is also a global enable.
Finally, rather than duplicate the logic to convert a flag to bool in
the python wrapper, we can just use a cast to bool and take advantage of
the version in C++.
Change-Id: I3dc64c2364f0239294093686ddac6fcc8441f306
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/45007
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
The debug flags API has a couple of quirks that should be cleaned
up. Specifically:
* Only CompoundFlag should expose a list of children.
* The global enable flag is just called "active", this isn't very
descriptive.
* Only SimpleFlag exposed a status member. This should be in the base
class to make the API symmetric.
* Flag::Sync() is an implementation detail and needs to be protected.
Change-Id: I4d7fd32c80891191aa04f0bd0c334c8cf8d372f5
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/34118
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
These files aren't a collection of miscellaneous stuff, they're the
definition of the Logger interface, and a few utility macros for
calling into that interface (panic, warn, etc.).
Change-Id: I84267ac3f45896a83c0ef027f8f19c5e9a5667d1
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6226
Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter <Brandon.Potter@amd.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
The DTRACE() macro tests both Trace::enabled and the specific flag. This
change uses the same administrative interface for enabling/disabling
tracing, but masks the SimpleFlags settings directly. This eliminates a
load for every DTRACE() test, e.g. DPRINTF.
At the same time, rename the trace flags to debug flags since they
have broader usage than simply tracing. This means that
--trace-flags is now --debug-flags and --trace-help is now --debug-help
