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 25/27] util: add support for formatting a program name in messages
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:25:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260211152508.732487-26-berrange@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260211152508.732487-1-berrange@redhat.com>
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.
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
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(-)
diff --git a/include/qemu/message.h b/include/qemu/message.h
index cfc3c92648..b8518d06be 100644
--- a/include/qemu/message.h
+++ b/include/qemu/message.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
enum QMessageFormatFlags {
QMESSAGE_FORMAT_TIMESTAMP = (1 << 0),
QMESSAGE_FORMAT_WORKLOAD_NAME = (1 << 1),
+ QMESSAGE_FORMAT_PROGRAM_NAME = (1 << 2),
};
/**
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index cdb7fa20c2..84dcbb0983 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -5515,13 +5515,15 @@ ERST
DEF("msg", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_msg,
"-msg [timestamp=on|off][,guest-name=on|off]\n"
+ " [,program-name=on|off]\n"
" control error message format\n"
" timestamp=on enables timestamps (default: off)\n"
" guest-name=on enables guest name prefix but only if\n"
- " -name guest option is set (default: off)\n",
+ " -name guest option is set (default: off)\n"
+ " program-name=off disables program name prefix (default: on)\n",
QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
SRST
-``-msg [timestamp=on|off][,guest-name=on|off]``
+``-msg [timestamp=on|off][,guest-name=on|off][,program-name=on|off]``
Control error message format.
``timestamp=on|off``
@@ -5530,6 +5532,9 @@ SRST
``guest-name=on|off``
Prefix messages with guest name but only if -name guest option is set
otherwise the option is ignored. Default is off.
+
+ ``program-name=on|off``
+ Prefix messages with the program name. Default is on.
ERST
DEF("dump-vmstate", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_dump_vmstate,
diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
index be5862e55e..3e79bf47e0 100644
--- a/system/vl.c
+++ b/system/vl.c
@@ -381,6 +381,12 @@ static QemuOptsList qemu_msg_opts = {
.help = "Prepends guest name for error messages but only if "
"-name guest is set otherwise option is ignored\n",
},
+ {
+ .name = "program-name",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+ .help = "Prepends program name for error messages (enabled "
+ "by default)\n",
+ },
{ /* end of list */ }
},
};
@@ -819,13 +825,16 @@ static void realtime_init(void)
static void configure_msg(QemuOpts *opts)
{
- int flags = 0;
+ int flags = QMESSAGE_FORMAT_PROGRAM_NAME;
if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "timestamp", false)) {
flags |= QMESSAGE_FORMAT_TIMESTAMP;
}
if (qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "guest-name", false)) {
flags |= QMESSAGE_FORMAT_WORKLOAD_NAME;
}
+ if (!qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "program-name", true)) {
+ flags &= ~QMESSAGE_FORMAT_PROGRAM_NAME;
+ }
qmessage_set_format(flags);
}
diff --git a/tests/unit/test-error-report.c b/tests/unit/test-error-report.c
index 9c63019694..714eafc51e 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test-error-report.c
+++ b/tests/unit/test-error-report.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ test_error_report_loc(void)
g_test_trap_subprocess(NULL, 0, 0);
g_test_trap_assert_passed();
g_test_trap_assert_stderr("\
-test-error-report:some-file.c:7717: test error1*\
+test-error-report: some-file.c:7717: test error1*\
test-error-report: test error2*\
");
}
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ static void
test_error_report_timestamp(void)
{
if (g_test_subprocess()) {
- qmessage_set_format(QMESSAGE_FORMAT_TIMESTAMP);
+ qmessage_set_format(QMESSAGE_FORMAT_TIMESTAMP |
+ QMESSAGE_FORMAT_PROGRAM_NAME);
warn_report("warn");
error_report("err");
return;
diff --git a/util/error-report.c b/util/error-report.c
index 3009b93c23..196d51618c 100644
--- a/util/error-report.c
+++ b/util/error-report.c
@@ -179,10 +179,6 @@ static void print_loc(Monitor *cur)
int i;
const char *const *argp;
- if (!cur && g_get_prgname()) {
- fprintf(stderr, "%s:", g_get_prgname());
- sep = " ";
- }
switch (cur_loc->kind) {
case LOC_CMDLINE:
argp = cur_loc->ptr;
diff --git a/util/message.c b/util/message.c
index fb2c947153..dd01bf7462 100644
--- a/util/message.c
+++ b/util/message.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
#include "qemu/message.h"
#include "monitor/monitor.h"
-static int message_format;
+static int message_format = QMESSAGE_FORMAT_PROGRAM_NAME;
static char *message_workloadname;
void qmessage_set_format(int flags)
@@ -32,4 +32,12 @@ void qmessage_context_print(FILE *fp)
fputs(message_workloadname, fp);
fputc(' ', fp);
}
+
+ if (message_format & QMESSAGE_FORMAT_PROGRAM_NAME) {
+ const char *pgnamestr = g_get_prgname();
+ if (pgnamestr) {
+ fputs(pgnamestr, fp);
+ fputs(": ", 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 ` [PATCH v6 24/27] util: add support for formatting a workload name in messages Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2026-02-19 10:08 ` [PATCH v6 25/27] util: add support for formatting a program " 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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