Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] tests: test-hmp: print command execution result

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Vadim Galitsyn (address@hidden) wrote:
> Provide HMP monitor command execution result as it would be seen
> by user who established an HMP monitor session.
> 
> Currently many commands may silently fail without any sign of that.
> This patch let this info to be printed once test is running in
> verbose mode.
> 
> For the future it might be useful to fail the test if command has
> failed, however it would require a bit of rework inside test
> engine itself.
> 
> A simple example of silent failure without reporting it would to
> add some non-existent HMP command into 'hmp_cmds' list. In this case
> test will report it successfully passed without error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vadim Galitsyn <address@hidden>
> Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden

This test patch is useful without the rest of the series;

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>

Queued for HMP

Although I do also need to go and fix this tests idea of verbose to get
it from GTester rather than it's own env - I'll do that.

For the rest of the set, you need to convince Markus why
it's safe.

Dave


> ---
>  tests/test-hmp.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/test-hmp.c b/tests/test-hmp.c
> index 8e21eee61c..1fd8e44eff 100644
> --- a/tests/test-hmp.c
> +++ b/tests/test-hmp.c
> @@ -79,10 +79,13 @@ static void test_commands(void)
>      int i;
>  
>      for (i = 0; hmp_cmds[i] != NULL; i++) {
> +        response = hmp("%s", hmp_cmds[i]);
>          if (verbose) {
> -            fprintf(stderr, "\t%s\n", hmp_cmds[i]);
> +            fprintf(stderr,
> +                    "\texecute HMP command: %s\n"
> +                    "\tresult             : %s\n",
> +                    hmp_cmds[i], response);
>          }
> -        response = hmp("%s", hmp_cmds[i]);
>          g_free(response);
>      }
>  
> -- 
> 2.13.1.394.g41dd433
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK