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From: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
To: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>,
	Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
	Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 04/16] docs/devel/testing: add debug section to the QEMU iotests chapter
Date: Fri,  4 Jun 2021 11:17:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210604091723.13419-5-eesposit@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210604091723.13419-1-eesposit@redhat.com>

Introduce the "Debugging a test case" section, in preparation
to the additional flags that will be added in the next patches.

Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
---
 docs/devel/testing.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
index 4e42392810..9d6a8f8636 100644
--- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
@@ -224,6 +224,14 @@ another application on the host may have locked the file, possibly leading to a
 test failure.  If using such devices are explicitly desired, consider adding
 ``locking=off`` option to disable image locking.
 
+Debugging a test case
+-----------------------
+The following options to the ``check`` script can be useful when debugging
+a failing test:
+
+* ``-d`` (debug) just increases the logging verbosity, showing
+  for example the QMP commands and answers.
+
 Test case groups
 ----------------
 
-- 
2.30.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-04  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-04  9:17 [PATCH v5 00/16] qemu_iotests: improve debugging options Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 01/16] python: qemu: add timer parameter for qmp.accept socket Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 02/16] python: Reduce strictness of pylint's duplicate-code check Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-05 13:30   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 03/16] python: qemu: pass the wrapper field from QEMUQtestmachine to QEMUMachine Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito [this message]
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 05/16] qemu-iotests: add option to attach gdbserver Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 06/16] qemu-iotests: delay QMP socket timers Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-14 10:36   ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-15  7:57     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-06-16  7:09       ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-16  9:39         ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 07/16] qemu_iotests: insert gdbserver command line as wrapper for qemu binary Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 08/16] qemu-iotests: add gdbserver option to script tests too Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 09/16] docs/devel/testing: add --gdb option to the debugging section of QEMU iotests Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-05 13:22   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 10/16] qemu-iotests: extend the check script to prepare supporting valgrind for python tests Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-05 13:28   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-06-05 17:38     ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-05 19:19       ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 11/16] qemu-iotests: extend QMP socket timeout when using valgrind Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 12/16] qemu-iotests: allow valgrind to read/delete the generated log file Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 13/16] qemu-iotests: insert valgrind command line as wrapper for qemu binary Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 14/16] docs/devel/testing: add --valgrind option to the debug section of QEMU iotests Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 15/16] qemu-iotests: add option to show qemu binary logs on stdout Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-04  9:17 ` [PATCH v5 16/16] docs/devel/testing: add -p option to the debug section of QEMU iotests Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-06-14  8:48 ` [PATCH v5 00/16] qemu_iotests: improve debugging options Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito

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