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>
Debug flags are flags that aid with debugging by printing
relevant information when enabled. Debug-formatting flags
define how the debug flags will print the information.
Although a viability, this patch does not support declaring
compound format flags.
As a side effect, now debug flags and debug-formatting flags
are printed in different lists, when using --debug-help.
Change-Id: Ieae68745276218cf4e9c1d37d7bf3bd1f19709ae
Signed-off-by: Daniel R. Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/39076
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
