On 07/30/2018 06:08 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> In kill_qemu() we have an assert that checks that the QEMU process
> didn't dump core:
> assert(!WCOREDUMP(wstatus));
>
> Unfortunately the WCOREDUMP macro here means the resulting message
> is not very easy to comprehend on at least some systems:
>
> ahci-test: tests/libqtest.c:113: kill_qemu: Assertion `!(((__extension__
> (((union { __typeof(wstatus) __in; int __i; }) { .__in = (wstatus) }).__i)))
> & 0x80)' failed.
>
> and it doesn't identify what signal the process took.
>
> Furthermore, we are NOT detecting EINTR (while EINTR shouldn't be
> happening if we didn't install signal handlers, it's still better
> to always be robust), and also want to log unexpected non-zero status
> that was not accompanied by a core dump.
>
> Instead of using a raw assert, print the information in an
> easier to understand way:
>
> /i386/ahci/sanity: tests/libqtest.c:119: kill_qemu() detected QEMU death with
> core dump from signal 11 (Segmentation fault)
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> (Of course, the really useful information would be why the QEMU
> process dumped core in the first place, but we don't have that
> by the time the test program has picked up the exit status.)
>
> Suggested-by: Peter Maydell <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>
>
> ---
> v3: use TFR() instead of open-coding the retry loop [Thomas]
> ---
> tests/libqtest.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
r~
