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    "date": "2026-02-11T15:24:41",
    "name": "[v6,00/27] util: sync error_report & qemu_log output more closely",
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        "name": "Daniel P. Berrangé",
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        "Cc": "Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>,\n Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, \"Dr. David Alan Gilbert\" <dave@treblig.org>,\n Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>, devel@lists.libvirt.org,\n\t=?utf-8?q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= <philmd@linaro.org>, =?utf-8?q?Marc?=\n\t=?utf-8?q?-Andr=C3=A9_Lureau?= <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,\n Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,\n qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-rust@nongnu.org,\n Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,\n Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,\n =?utf-8?q?Daniel_P=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= <berrange@redhat.com>,\n Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>,\n Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v6 00/27] util: sync error_report & qemu_log output more\n closely",
        "Date": "Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:24:41 +0000",
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    "content": "This series is a tangent that came out of discussion in\n\n   https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2025-08/msg00903.html\n\nIn thinking about adding thread info to error_report, I\ncame to realize we should likely make qemu_log behave\nconsistently with error_report & friends. We already\nhonour '-msg timestamp=on', but don't honour 'guest-name=on'\nand also don't include the binary name.\n\nAs an example of the current state, consider mixing error and\nlog output today:\n\n- Default context:\n\n  # qemu-system-x86_64 -object tls-creds-x509,id=t0,dir=fish \\\n                       -d 'trace:qcrypto*'\n  qcrypto_tls_creds_x509_load TLS creds x509 load creds=0x55ac6d97f700 dir=fish\n  qcrypto_tls_creds_get_path TLS creds path creds=0x55ac6d97f700 filename=ca-cert.pem path=<none>\n  qemu-system-x86_64: Unable to access credentials fish/ca-cert.pem: No such file or directory\n\n- Full context:\n\n  # qemu-system-x86_64 -object tls-creds-x509,id=t0,dir=fish \\\n                       -d 'trace:qcrypto*' \\\n                       -msg guest-name=on,timestamp=on \\\n                       -name \"fish food\"\n  2025-08-19T20:14:16.791413Z qcrypto_tls_creds_x509_load TLS creds x509 load creds=0x55e9a3458d10 dir=fish\n  2025-08-19T20:14:16.791429Z qcrypto_tls_creds_get_path TLS creds path creds=0x55e9a3458d10 filename=ca-cert.pem path=<none>\n  2025-08-19T20:14:16.791433Z fish food qemu-system-x86_64: Unable to access credentials fish/ca-cert.pem: No such file or directory\n\nAnd after this series is complete:\n\n- Default context:\n\n  # qemu-system-x86_64 -object tls-creds-x509,id=t0,dir=fish \\\n                      -d 'trace:qcrypto*'\n  qemu-system-x86_64(1184284:main): qcrypto_tls_creds_x509_load TLS creds x509 load creds=0x55a24ad5cb30 dir=fish\n  qemu-system-x86_64(1184284:main): qcrypto_tls_creds_get_path TLS creds path creds=0x55a24ad5cb30 filename=ca-cert.pem path=<none>\n  qemu-system-x86_64(1184284:main): Unable to access credentials fish/ca-cert.pem: No such file or directory\n\n- Full context:\n\n  # qemu-system-x86_64 -object tls-creds-x509,id=t0,dir=fish \\\n                      -d 'trace:qcrypto*' \\\n                      -msg guest-name=on,timestamp=on \\\n                      -name \"fish food\"\n  2025-08-19T20:12:50.211823Z [fish food] qemu-system-x86_64(1168876:main): qcrypto_tls_creds_x509_load TLS creds x509 load creds=0x5582183d8760 dir=fish\n  2025-08-19T20:12:50.211842Z [fish food] qemu-system-x86_64(1168876:main): qcrypto_tls_creds_get_path TLS creds path creds=0x5582183d8760 filename=ca-cert.pem\n+path=<none>\n  2025-08-19T20:12:50.211846Z [fish food] qemu-system-x86_64(1168876:main): Unable to access credentials fish/ca-cert.pem: No such file or directory\n\nThe main things to note:\n\n * error_report/warn_report/qemu_log share the same\n   output format and -msg applies to both\n\n * -msg debug-threads=on is now unconditionally enabled\n   and thus the param is deprecated & ignored\n\n * Thread ID and name are unconditionally enabled\n\n * Guest name is surrounded in [...] brackets\n\n * The default output lines are typically 15 chars\n   wider given that we always include the thread\n   ID + name now\n\n * This takes the liberty of assigning the new file\n   to the existing error-report.c maintainer (Markus)\n   Since splitting it off into message.c instead of\n   putting it all in error-report.c felt slightly\n   nicer.\n\nOne thing I didn't tackle is making the location\ninfo get reported for qemu_log. This is used to\ngive context for error messages when parsing some\nCLI args, and could be interesting for log messages\nassociated with those same CLI args.\n\nChanges in v6:\n\n - Don't use pthread API to set main thread name, as this\n   affects visibility in 'top' and 'ps'\n - Split off Win32 thread naming race fix intoseparate\n   patch\n - Tweaks to wording in API docs for logging\n - Improve VNC auth error messages\n - Don't relpace monitor_cur_is_qmp with monitor_cur_is_hmp,\n   change code approach instead\n\nChanges in v5:\n\n - Use g_strlcpy instead of strlcpy\n - Remove redundant !! around a value that was already bool\n - Improve the qemu_lock_trylock() API docs to encourage\n   use of fprintf() instead of further qemu_log() calls\n - Add a qemu_log_trylock_context() counterpart for\n   qemu_log_trylock that includes the message context\n - Don't scan for \\n to determine whether we can output\n   a message context prefix or not. Instead track call\n   depth on qemu_log_trylock() and only output it when\n   the depth was initially zero. This fixes linux-user\n   -strace output formatting which was mangled by v4\n - Use fprintf(stderr) instead of error_printf_mon\n   in cases where mon would be NULL\n - Use fputs/fputc in simple cases where we don't need the\n   full power of fprintf\n - Use qemu_f{un}lockfile instead of f{un}lockfile\n - Add  -msg thread-info=on|off,program-name=on|off args\n   to allow default message prefixes to be optionally disabled\n\nChanges in v4:\n\n - Re-architected the way error_vprintf() operates\n   to simplify monitor dependency\n - Fixed the move of error_vprintf from monitor.c\n   to error-report.c so that unit tests can still\n   get a stub to capture messages to g_test_message\n - Simplify changes to vreport() to avoid passing\n   around function pointers\n - Add locking of stderr to vreport() to serialize\n   incremental output\n - Fix thread naming logic changes on Windows\n - Change deprecation warning messages\n\nChanges in v3:\n\n - Stop formatting a string in qmessage_context, instead\n   output directly to a \"FILE *\" stream\n - Fix pre-existing bug interleaving qemu_log and\n   vreport when the trace 'log' backend has mutex probes\n   enabled\n\nChanges in v2:\n\n - Re-use existing qemu_get_thread_id rather than\n   re-inventing it as qemu_thread_get_id.\n - Expose qemu_thread_set_name and use it from all\n   locations needing to set thread names\n - Fix qemu_log() to skip context prefix when\n   emitting a log message in fragments across\n   multiple calls\n - Skip allocating memory for empty context messages\n - Fix leak in win32 impl of qemu_thread_get_name\n - Use g_strlcpy where possible\n\nDaniel P. Berrangé (27):\n  meson: don't access 'cxx' object without checking cpp lang\n  qemu-options: remove extraneous [] around arg values\n  include: define constant for early constructor priority\n  monitor: initialize global data from a constructor\n  system: unconditionally enable thread naming\n  util: fix race setting thread name on Win32\n  util: expose qemu_thread_set_name\n  audio: make jackaudio use qemu_thread_set_name\n  util: set the name for the 'main' thread on Windows\n  util: add API to fetch the current thread name\n  util: introduce some API docs for logging APIs\n  util: avoid repeated prefix on incremental qemu_log calls\n  util/log: add missing error reporting in qemu_log_trylock_with_err\n  ui: add proper error reporting for password changes\n  ui: remove redundant use of error_printf_unless_qmp()\n  monitor: remove redundant error_[v]printf_unless_qmp\n  monitor: refactor error_vprintf()\n  monitor: move error_vprintf back to error-report.c\n  util: fix interleaving of error & trace output\n  util: don't skip error prefixes when QMP is active\n  util: fix interleaving of error prefixes\n  util: introduce common helper for error-report & log code\n  util: convert error-report & log to message API for timestamp\n  util: add support for formatting a workload name in messages\n  util: add support for formatting a program name in messages\n  util: add support for formatting thread info in messages\n  util: add brackets around guest name in message context\n\n MAINTAINERS                          |   2 +\n audio/jackaudio.c                    |  30 +++++--\n docs/about/deprecated.rst            |   7 ++\n include/monitor/monitor.h            |   3 -\n include/qemu/compiler.h              |   8 ++\n include/qemu/error-report.h          |   4 -\n include/qemu/log-for-trace.h         |  17 +++-\n include/qemu/log.h                   |  39 +++++++++\n include/qemu/message.h               |  40 +++++++++\n include/qemu/thread.h                |   3 +-\n include/ui/console.h                 |   2 +-\n include/ui/qemu-spice-module.h       |   3 +-\n meson.build                          |  23 ++++-\n monitor/monitor.c                    |  51 ++---------\n qemu-options.hx                      | 121 ++++++++++++++-------------\n rust/util/src/log.rs                 |   6 ++\n storage-daemon/qemu-storage-daemon.c |   6 ++\n stubs/error-printf.c                 |  23 -----\n stubs/meson.build                    |   1 -\n stubs/monitor-core.c                 |  19 ++++-\n system/vl.c                          |  49 +++++++++--\n tests/functional/generic/test_vnc.py |   4 +-\n tests/qemu-iotests/041               |   2 +-\n tests/qemu-iotests/common.filter     |   2 +-\n tests/unit/test-error-report.c       |   6 +-\n tests/unit/test-util-sockets.c       |   1 +\n ui/spice-core.c                      |  25 ++++--\n ui/spice-module.c                    |   7 +-\n ui/ui-qmp-cmds.c                     |  19 ++---\n ui/vnc-stubs.c                       |   6 +-\n ui/vnc.c                             |  16 ++--\n util/error-report.c                  | 103 +++++++++++++++--------\n util/log.c                           |  48 ++++++-----\n util/meson.build                     |   1 +\n util/message.c                       |  51 +++++++++++\n util/qemu-thread-posix.c             |  89 ++++++++++++++------\n util/qemu-thread-win32.c             |  87 +++++++++++++------\n 37 files changed, 628 insertions(+), 296 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 include/qemu/message.h\n delete mode 100644 stubs/error-printf.c\n create mode 100644 util/message.c"
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