Re: [PATCH v5 22/24] util: add support for formatting a program name in messages

Richard Henderson <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:31:16 +1100
Newsgroups org.nongnu.qemu-rust,org.nongnu.qemu-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/9/26 04:03, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> The error_report function can include the program name in any
> messages it prints. The qemu_log function has no equivalent
> behaviour.
> 
> This introduces support for a "program name" in the new
> messages API, which will be included by default for all
> binaries.
> 
> This change tweaks the output of the error_report function,
> adding a space between the program name and the location
> info. The qemu_log function will gain the program name. This
> can be easily seen with the 'log' trace backend, and how it
> is now more closely matching error_report output.
> 
> Before:
> 
>    # qemu-system-x86_64 -object tls-creds-x509,id=t0,dir=fish -d 'trace:qcrypto*'
>    qcrypto_tls_creds_x509_load TLS creds x509 load creds=0x5584e13937f0 dir=fish
>    qcrypto_tls_creds_get_path TLS creds path creds=0x5584e13937f0 filename=ca-cert.pem path=<none>
>    qemu-system-x86_64: Unable to access credentials fish/ca-cert.pem: No such file or directory
> 
> After:
> 
>    # qemu-system-x86_64 -object tls-creds-x509,id=t0,dir=fish -d 'trace:qcrypto*'
>    qemu-system-x86_64: qcrypto_tls_creds_x509_load TLS creds x509 load creds=0x5584e13937f0 dir=fish
>    qemu-system-x86_64: qcrypto_tls_creds_get_path TLS creds path creds=0x5584e13937f0 filename=ca-cert.pem path=<none>
>    qemu-system-x86_64: Unable to access credentials fish/ca-cert.pem: No such file or directory
> 
> When adding this the '-msg program-name=on|off' option is
> introduced, so that the program name (which is enabled by
> default) can be supressed if desired. This could be useful
> if '-msg guest-name=on' is being used as a more informative
> identifier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. BerrangĂ©<[email protected]>
> ---
>   include/qemu/message.h         |  1 +
>   qemu-options.hx                |  9 +++++++--
>   system/vl.c                    | 11 ++++++++++-
>   tests/unit/test-error-report.c |  5 +++--
>   util/error-report.c            |  4 ----
>   util/message.c                 | 10 +++++++++-
>   6 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>

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