Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 2/6] error: Functions to report warnings and informational messages

[Markus Armbruster]

Alistair Francis <address@hidden> writes:

> Add warn_report(), warn_vreport() for reporting warnings, and
> info_report(), info_vreport() for informational messages.
>
> These are implemented them with a helper function factored out of
> error_vreport(), suitably generalized. As we don't regard error
> messages as a stable API the original error messages now have an
> 'error: ' prefix.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <address@hidden>

The patch squashes two changes together: the new functions and the error
message format change.  Please split it, so we can debate either change
on its merit more easily, and to make them both properly visible in the
commit log.

> ---
> v1:
>  - Don't expose the generic report and vreport() functions
>  - Prefix error messages
>  - Use vreport instead of qmsg_vreport()
> RFC V3:
>  - Change the function and enum names to be more descriptive
>  - Add wrapper functions for *_report() and *_vreport()
>
>  include/qemu/error-report.h |  7 ++++
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl       |  7 +++-
>  util/qemu-error.c           | 78 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  3 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/qemu/error-report.h b/include/qemu/error-report.h
> index 3001865896..e1c8ae1a52 100644
> --- a/include/qemu/error-report.h
> +++ b/include/qemu/error-report.h
> @@ -35,8 +35,15 @@ void error_printf(const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 2);
>  void error_vprintf_unless_qmp(const char *fmt, va_list ap) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 
> 0);
>  void error_printf_unless_qmp(const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 2);
>  void error_set_progname(const char *argv0);
> +
>  void error_vreport(const char *fmt, va_list ap) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 0);
> +void warn_vreport(const char *fmt, va_list ap) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 0);
> +void info_vreport(const char *fmt, va_list ap) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 0);
> +
>  void error_report(const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 2);
> +void warn_report(const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 2);
> +void info_report(const char *fmt, ...) GCC_FMT_ATTR(1, 2);
> +
>  const char *error_get_progname(void);
>  extern bool enable_timestamp_msg;
>  
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 73efc927a9..1fdd7f624a 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2534,8 +2534,13 @@ sub process {
>                               error_set|
>                               error_prepend|
>                               error_reportf_err|
> +                             vreport|

Is this one needed?

>                               error_vreport|
> -                             error_report}x;
> +                             warn_vreport|
> +                             info_vreport|
> +                             error_report|
> +                             warn_report|
> +                             info_report}x;
>  
>       if ($rawline =~ /\b(?:$qemu_error_funcs)\s*\(.*\".*\\n/) {
>               ERROR("Error messages should not contain newlines\n" . 
> $herecurr);
> diff --git a/util/qemu-error.c b/util/qemu-error.c
> index 1c5e35ecdb..f2fc9d5a1e 100644
> --- a/util/qemu-error.c
> +++ b/util/qemu-error.c
> @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@
>  #include "monitor/monitor.h"
>  #include "qemu/error-report.h"
>  
> +typedef enum {
> +    REPORT_TYPE_ERROR,
> +    REPORT_TYPE_WARNING,
> +    REPORT_TYPE_INFO,
> +} report_type;
> +
>  void error_printf(const char *fmt, ...)
>  {
>      va_list ap;
> @@ -179,17 +185,29 @@ static void print_loc(void)
>  
>  bool enable_timestamp_msg;
>  /*
> - * Print an error message to current monitor if we have one, else to stderr.
> + * Print a message to current monitor if we have one, else to stderr.

Need a sentence on @report_type right here.  Perhaps

    * @report_type is the type of message: error, warning or
    * informational.

>   * Format arguments like vsprintf().  The resulting message should be
>   * a single phrase, with no newline or trailing punctuation.
>   * Prepend the current location and append a newline.
>   * It's wrong to call this in a QMP monitor.  Use error_setg() there.
>   */
> -void error_vreport(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
> +static void vreport(report_type type, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
>  {
>      GTimeVal tv;
>      gchar *timestr;
>  
> +    switch (type) {
> +    case REPORT_TYPE_ERROR:
> +        error_printf("error: ");
> +        break;
> +    case REPORT_TYPE_WARNING:
> +        error_printf("warning: ");
> +        break;
> +    case REPORT_TYPE_INFO:
> +        error_printf("info: ");
> +        break;
> +    }
> +
>      if (enable_timestamp_msg && !cur_mon) {
>          g_get_current_time(&tv);
>          timestr = g_time_val_to_iso8601(&tv);
> @@ -204,16 +222,62 @@ void error_vreport(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
>  
>  /*
>   * Print an error message to current monitor if we have one, else to stderr.
> - * Format arguments like sprintf().  The resulting message should be a
> - * single phrase, with no newline or trailing punctuation.
> - * Prepend the current location and append a newline.
> - * It's wrong to call this in a QMP monitor.  Use error_setg() there.
> + */

Please keep error_vreport()'s and error_report()'s function comments, so
their contract is immediately visible when you jump to the function
definition.

> +void error_vreport(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
> +{
> +    vreport(REPORT_TYPE_ERROR, fmt, ap);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Print a warning message to current monitor if we have one, else to stderr.
> + */

Repeat the full contract, or at least include it by reference, like
"Works like error_vreport(), which see."  Same for the other new
functions.

> +void warn_vreport(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
> +{
> +    vreport(REPORT_TYPE_WARNING, fmt, ap);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Print an information message to current monitor if we have one, else to
> + * stderr.
> + */
> +void info_vreport(const char *fmt, va_list ap)
> +{
> +    vreport(REPORT_TYPE_INFO, fmt, ap);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Print an error message to current monitor if we have one, else to stderr.
>   */
>  void error_report(const char *fmt, ...)
>  {
>      va_list ap;
>  
>      va_start(ap, fmt);
> -    error_vreport(fmt, ap);
> +    vreport(REPORT_TYPE_ERROR, fmt, ap);
> +    va_end(ap);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Print a warning message to current monitor if we have one, else to stderr.
> + */
> +void warn_report(const char *fmt, ...)
> +{
> +    va_list ap;
> +
> +    va_start(ap, fmt);
> +    vreport(REPORT_TYPE_WARNING, fmt, ap);
> +    va_end(ap);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Print an information message to current monitor if we have one, else to
> + * stderr.
> + */
> +void info_report(const char *fmt, ...)
> +{
> +    va_list ap;
> +
> +    va_start(ap, fmt);
> +    vreport(REPORT_TYPE_INFO, fmt, ap);
>      va_end(ap);
>  }