Re: [RFC PATCH v5 04/10] KVM: selftests: Print the errno besides error-string in TEST_ASSERT

From: Andrew Jones
Date: Tue Mar 23 2021 - 10:05:48 EST


On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 09:52:25PM +0800, Yanan Wang wrote:
> Print the errno besides error-string in TEST_ASSERT in the format of
> "errno=%d - %s" will explicitly indicate that the string is an error
> information. Besides, the errno is easier to be used for debugging
> than the error-string.
>
> Suggested-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c
> index 5ebbd0d6b472..71ade6100fd3 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/assert.c
> @@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ test_assert(bool exp, const char *exp_str,
>
> fprintf(stderr, "==== Test Assertion Failure ====\n"
> " %s:%u: %s\n"
> - " pid=%d tid=%d - %s\n",
> + " pid=%d tid=%d errno=%d - %s\n",
> file, line, exp_str, getpid(), _gettid(),
> - strerror(errno));
> + errno, strerror(errno));
> test_dump_stack();
> if (fmt) {
> fputs(" ", stderr);
> --
> 2.19.1
>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>