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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state
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Fabien Chouteau |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state |
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Tue, 15 May 2012 18:45:23 +0200 |
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On 05/15/2012 06:20 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 15 May 2012 17:08, Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 05/15/2012 03:31 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Am 15.05.2012 11:39, schrieb Fabien Chouteau:
>>>> Do not call cpu_dump_state if logfile is NULL.
>>>
>>> And where is log_cpu_state() being called from? Its caller is passing
>>> NULL already then.
>
>> No, logfile is a global variable. log_cpu_state() takes only CPUState
>> and flags parameters.
>
> The question is which of the following two options we want:
> (1) callers should be guarding the calls to log_cpu_state() with
> checks for qemu_log_enabled() or qemu_loglevel_mask()
> (2) log_cpu_state() does its own check for whether logging is enabled
> in the same way that qemu_log() and qemu_log_vprintf() do
>
> At the moment most callers of log_cpu_state() do their own checks
> as per (1), but you could make an argument that we should switch
> to (2) instead.
>
I think (2) is better, we do the check in one place and that's it. All
call to log_cpu_state are safe. And as you said, it's already the way
qemu_log and qemu_log_vprintf work.
--
Fabien Chouteau
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PowerPC: Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state, Fabien Chouteau, 2012/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PowerPC: Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state, Peter Maydell, 2012/05/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state, Andreas Färber, 2012/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state, Fabien Chouteau, 2012/05/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state, Fabien Chouteau, 2012/05/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state, Fabien Chouteau, 2012/05/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state, Alexander Graf, 2012/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state, Fabien Chouteau, 2012/05/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Avoid segfault in cpu_dump_state, Andreas Färber, 2012/05/30