Ah that makes sense. Thanks Markus and Simon.

You're right, in the end I didn't rely on these commands. Though when I started
playing with btrace, it did make me think btrace was broken on my machine and
it took me a bit to figure out what's going on. So I think this change can
still be valuable to save others the headache :).
Let me know what you think, if you think it's valuable I'll send a v2 with the
proposed change.

Cheers,
Stephen

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 4:05 PM Metzger, Markus T
<markus.t.metzger@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Stephen,
>
> >On 2021-04-12 10:01 a.m., Stephen Röttger via Gdb-patches wrote:
> >> diff --git a/gdb/record-btrace.c b/gdb/record-btrace.c
> >> index b7b3c91f85d..79a6e47a4a6 100644
> >> --- a/gdb/record-btrace.c
> >> +++ b/gdb/record-btrace.c
> >> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ require_btrace_thread (void)
> >>     Throws an error if there is no thread or no trace.  This function never
> >>     returns NULL.  */
> >>
> >> -static struct btrace_thread_info *
> >> +struct btrace_thread_info *
> >>  require_btrace (void)
> >
> >Since the doc is now in the header, write:
> >
> >/* See record-btrace.h.  */
> >
> >here.
> >
> >I'd LGTM this patch, but I'd like Markus (the btrace specialist) to
> >give it a look (I think he's away, it will be in a few weeks).
>
> Those maintenance commands are not intended for users.  You'd really only
> need them to debug issues with PT decode or recording.  My main use-case is
> to clear the history, then turn on debugging and logging, and re-decode the
> trace.  Re-fetching shouldn't hurt but isn't necessary.
>
> Your patch LGTM (with the comment fixed) but I wonder whether there's
> anything to fix, at all.  If you end up needing to use those maint commands,
> something else may be wrong.
>
> Regards,
> Markus.
>
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