trace: document how to specify multiple --trace patterns

It is possible to repeat the --trace option to specify multiple
patterns. This may be preferrable to users who do not want to create a
file with a list of patterns.

Suggested-by: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210112165859.225534-2-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

diff --git a/docs/devel/tracing.rst b/docs/devel/tracing.rst
index af395e957de7617d57196c95d328d1a9a81eed2e..e8f9b82c5e048aa1f334c5e565254e924d9ebbf0 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/devel/tracing.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/tracing.rst
@@ -22,10 +22,15 @@ events::
 This output comes from the "log" trace backend that is enabled by default when
 ``./configure --enable-trace-backends=BACKENDS`` was not explicitly specified.
 
-More than one trace event pattern can be specified by providing a file
-instead::
+Multiple patterns can be specified by repeating the ``--trace`` option::
+
+    $ qemu --trace "kvm_*" --trace "virtio_*" ...
+
+When patterns are used frequently it is more convenient to store them in a
+file to avoid long command-line options::
 
     $ echo "memory_region_ops_*" >/tmp/events
+    $ echo "kvm_*" >>/tmp/events
     $ qemu --trace events=/tmp/events ...
 
 Trace events