Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] iotests: allow Valgrind checking all QEMU processes

[Eric Blake]

On 6/10/19 10:02 AM, Andrey Shinkevich wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/06/2019 17:24, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 6/9/19 1:35 PM, Andrey Shinkevich wrote:
>>> With the '-valgrind' option, let all the QEMU processes be run under
>>> the Valgrind tool. The Valgrind own parameters may be set with its
>>> environment variable VALGRIND_OPTS, e.g.
>>> VALGRIND_OPTS="--leak-check=yes" ./check -qcow2 -valgrind <test#>
>>
>> Let's spell this --valgrind; long options should prefer the use of --
>> (as in getopt_long), whether or not we also have a reason to support
>> -valgrind (as in getopt_long_only). Yes, qemu is an oddball in this
>> regards, but no need to make it worse.
>>
> 
> Thank you, Eric. That sounds good but the short option'-valgrind' is
> preexisting in QEMU. Should I create a new patch for the long option?
> If so, will we have both options supported by QEMU?

Oh, you're talking about qemu-iotests/check already supporting merely
'-valgrind', not 'qemu-kvm' or '*/qemu-system-*'.  ./check is already an
oddball for not permitting double dash, but at this point, normalizing
it is a lot of churn. So it becomes a tradeoff on how much grunt work do
you really want to do.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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