From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Manos Pitsidianakis" <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>,
"Stefan Weil" <sw@weilnetz.de>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>,
"Pierrick Bouvier" <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>,
devel@lists.libvirt.org,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
"Hanna Reitz" <hreitz@redhat.com>,
"Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-rust@nongnu.org,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Christian Schoenebeck" <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>,
"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH v6 24/27] util: add support for formatting a workload name in messages
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:25:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260211152508.732487-25-berrange@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260211152508.732487-1-berrange@redhat.com>
The error_report function can include the guest name in any
messages it prints. The qemu_log function has no equivalent
behaviour.
This introduces support for a "workload name" in the new
messages API, which in the case of system emulators will
be the guest name. The possibility of defining a workload
name for other binaries is left as an exercise for the
future.
This change has no impact on the output of the error_report
function, but will change the qemu_log function. 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 -msg guest-name=on -name blah -object tls-creds-x509,id=t0,dir=fish -d 'trace:qcrypto*'
qcrypto_tls_creds_x509_load TLS creds x509 load creds=0x55b3af3fd870 dir=fish
qcrypto_tls_creds_get_path TLS creds path creds=0x55b3af3fd870 filename=ca-cert.pem path=<none>
blah qemu-system-x86_64: Unable to access credentials fish/ca-cert.pem: No such file or directory
After:
# qemu-system-x86_64 -msg guest-name=on -name blah -object tls-creds-x509,id=t0,dir=fish -d 'trace:qcrypto*'
blah qcrypto_tls_creds_x509_load TLS creds x509 load creds=0x55b3af3fd870 dir=fish
blah qcrypto_tls_creds_get_path TLS creds path creds=0x55b3af3fd870 filename=ca-cert.pem path=<none>
blah qemu-system-x86_64: Unable to access credentials fish/ca-cert.pem: No such file or directory
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
include/qemu/error-report.h | 3 ---
include/qemu/message.h | 10 ++++++++++
system/vl.c | 6 ++++--
util/error-report.c | 7 -------
util/message.c | 12 ++++++++++++
5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/qemu/error-report.h b/include/qemu/error-report.h
index c8000778ec..ffc305f828 100644
--- a/include/qemu/error-report.h
+++ b/include/qemu/error-report.h
@@ -70,7 +70,4 @@ void error_init(const char *argv0);
fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
})
-extern bool error_with_guestname;
-extern const char *error_guest_name;
-
#endif
diff --git a/include/qemu/message.h b/include/qemu/message.h
index 0a06421f77..cfc3c92648 100644
--- a/include/qemu/message.h
+++ b/include/qemu/message.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
enum QMessageFormatFlags {
QMESSAGE_FORMAT_TIMESTAMP = (1 << 0),
+ QMESSAGE_FORMAT_WORKLOAD_NAME = (1 << 1),
};
/**
@@ -16,6 +17,15 @@ enum QMessageFormatFlags {
*/
void qmessage_set_format(int flags);
+/**
+ * qmessage_set_workload_name:
+ * @name: the name of the workload
+ *
+ * Set the workload name, which for a system emulator
+ * will be the guest VM name.
+ */
+void qmessage_set_workload_name(const char *name);
+
/**
* qmessage_context_print:
* @fp: file to emit the prefix on
diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
index 4ef41df747..be5862e55e 100644
--- a/system/vl.c
+++ b/system/vl.c
@@ -823,7 +823,9 @@ static void configure_msg(QemuOpts *opts)
if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "timestamp", false)) {
flags |= QMESSAGE_FORMAT_TIMESTAMP;
}
- error_with_guestname = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "guest-name", false);
+ if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "guest-name", false)) {
+ flags |= QMESSAGE_FORMAT_WORKLOAD_NAME;
+ }
qmessage_set_format(flags);
}
@@ -3526,7 +3528,7 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv)
exit(1);
}
/* Capture guest name if -msg guest-name is used later */
- error_guest_name = qemu_opt_get(opts, "guest");
+ qmessage_set_workload_name(qemu_opt_get(opts, "guest"));
break;
case QEMU_OPTION_prom_env:
if (nb_prom_envs >= MAX_PROM_ENVS) {
diff --git a/util/error-report.c b/util/error-report.c
index 1ef65a7475..3009b93c23 100644
--- a/util/error-report.c
+++ b/util/error-report.c
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ typedef enum {
REPORT_TYPE_INFO,
} report_type;
-bool error_with_guestname;
-const char *error_guest_name;
/*
* Print to the current human monitor if we have one, else to stderr.
@@ -230,11 +228,6 @@ static void vreport(report_type type, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
qmessage_context_print(stderr);
}
- /* Only prepend guest name if -msg guest-name and -name guest=... are set */
- if (error_with_guestname && error_guest_name && !cur) {
- fprintf(stderr, "%s ", error_guest_name);
- }
-
print_loc(cur);
switch (type) {
diff --git a/util/message.c b/util/message.c
index 99a403f9d0..fb2c947153 100644
--- a/util/message.c
+++ b/util/message.c
@@ -6,12 +6,18 @@
#include "monitor/monitor.h"
static int message_format;
+static char *message_workloadname;
void qmessage_set_format(int flags)
{
message_format = flags;
}
+void qmessage_set_workload_name(const char *name)
+{
+ message_workloadname = g_strdup(name);
+}
+
void qmessage_context_print(FILE *fp)
{
if (message_format & QMESSAGE_FORMAT_TIMESTAMP) {
@@ -20,4 +26,10 @@ void qmessage_context_print(FILE *fp)
fputs(timestr, fp);
fputc(' ', fp);
}
+
+ if ((message_format & QMESSAGE_FORMAT_WORKLOAD_NAME) &&
+ message_workloadname) {
+ fputs(message_workloadname, fp);
+ fputc(' ', fp);
+ }
}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-11 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-11 15:24 [PATCH v6 00/27] util: sync error_report & qemu_log output more closely Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 01/27] meson: don't access 'cxx' object without checking cpp lang Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 02/27] qemu-options: remove extraneous [] around arg values Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 03/27] include: define constant for early constructor priority Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 9:22 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-18 10:46 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 13:23 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 04/27] monitor: initialize global data from a constructor Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 05/27] system: unconditionally enable thread naming Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 06/27] util: fix race setting thread name on Win32 Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 07/27] util: expose qemu_thread_set_name Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 08/27] audio: make jackaudio use qemu_thread_set_name Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 09/27] util: set the name for the 'main' thread on Windows Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 10/27] util: add API to fetch the current thread name Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 11/27] util: introduce some API docs for logging APIs Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 9:38 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 12/27] util: avoid repeated prefix on incremental qemu_log calls Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 9:52 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-18 10:45 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 13/27] util/log: add missing error reporting in qemu_log_trylock_with_err Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 10:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 14/27] ui: add proper error reporting for password changes Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 12:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-25 16:08 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 15/27] ui: remove redundant use of error_printf_unless_qmp() Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 12:12 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 16/27] monitor: remove redundant error_[v]printf_unless_qmp Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 17/27] monitor: refactor error_vprintf() Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 18/27] monitor: move error_vprintf back to error-report.c Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 19/27] util: fix interleaving of error & trace output Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 12:41 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-18 12:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 20/27] util: don't skip error prefixes when QMP is active Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 12:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 21/27] util: fix interleaving of error prefixes Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 22/27] util: introduce common helper for error-report & log code Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 14:04 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-25 16:18 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-25 17:51 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 23/27] util: convert error-report & log to message API for timestamp Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 25/27] util: add support for formatting a program name in messages Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-19 10:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-25 16:24 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-26 7:11 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-19 10:23 ` Peter Maydell
2026-02-25 16:38 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-25 17:43 ` Peter Maydell
2026-02-25 17:47 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 26/27] util: add support for formatting thread info " Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-19 10:14 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-25 16:33 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-19 10:29 ` Peter Maydell
2026-02-25 16:30 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-25 17:39 ` Peter Maydell
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 27/27] util: add brackets around guest name in message context Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-19 10:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-26 9:51 ` [PATCH v6 00/27] util: sync error_report & qemu_log output more closely Markus Armbruster
2026-02-26 9:58 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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