Event format ending with newlines confuse the trace reports. Forbid them. Add a check to refuse new format added with trailing newline:
$ make [...] GEN hw/misc/trace.h Traceback (most recent call last): File "scripts/tracetool.py", line 152, in <module> main(sys.argv) File "scripts/tracetool.py", line 143, in main events.extend(tracetool.read_events(fh, arg)) File "scripts/tracetool/__init__.py", line 367, in read_events event = Event.build(line) File "scripts/tracetool/__init__.py", line 281, in build raise ValueError("Event format can not end with a newline character") ValueError: Error at hw/misc/trace-events:121: Event format can not end with a newline character Reviewed-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> --- v2: "\\n\"" -> r'\n"' (jsnow) --- docs/devel/tracing.txt | 2 ++ scripts/tracetool/__init__.py | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/devel/tracing.txt b/docs/devel/tracing.txt index 76e492a489..8231bbf5d1 100644 --- a/docs/devel/tracing.txt +++ b/docs/devel/tracing.txt @@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ Trace events should use types as follows: Format strings should reflect the types defined in the trace event. Take special care to use PRId64 and PRIu64 for int64_t and uint64_t types, respectively. This ensures portability between 32- and 64-bit platforms. +Format strings must not end with a newline character. It is the responsibility +of backends to adapt line ending for proper logging. Each event declaration will start with the event name, then its arguments, finally a format string for pretty-printing. For example: diff --git a/scripts/tracetool/__init__.py b/scripts/tracetool/__init__.py index 6fca674936..04279fa62e 100644 --- a/scripts/tracetool/__init__.py +++ b/scripts/tracetool/__init__.py @@ -277,6 +277,9 @@ class Event(object): if fmt.find("%m") != -1 or fmt_trans.find("%m") != -1: raise ValueError("Event format '%m' is forbidden, pass the error " "as an explicit trace argument") + if fmt.endswith(r'\n"'): + raise ValueError("Event format must not end with a newline " + "character") if len(fmt_trans) > 0: fmt = [fmt_trans, fmt] -- 2.20.1