[PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments

Manos Pitsidianakis posted 1 patch 4 weeks, 1 day ago
meson.build               | 15 +++++++-
qemu-options.hx           | 15 ++++++++
scripts/build_info_gen.py | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
system/vl.c               | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
[PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Manos Pitsidianakis 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments for human and machine
readable output of build/compile-time configuration data. The source for
this data is the meson generated config-host.h.

This information is mainly of interest to developers and other folk who
deal with many different builds of QEMU and need a way to properly
differentiate them.

Because there's always the chance someone will want to consume an
interface programmatically, also add a -json option that does the same
but outputs a machine-readable JSON object.

Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
---
Changes in v2:
- Fixed alignment of command and documentation in -h output.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240923-feature-build-info-cli-v1-1-e8c42d845390@linaro.org
---
Notes:
Sample output:

$ ./qemu-system-aarch64 -build-info
./qemu-system-aarch64 version 9.1.50 (v9.0.0-3444-g8d988656d8) build information

  configuration key          key value
  -----------------          ---------
  accept4                    
  af_vsock                   
  asan_iface_fiber           
  atomic64                   
  attr                       
  audio_alsa                 
  audio_drivers              pa,sndio,oss
  audio_oss                  
  audio_pa                   
  audio_pipewire             
  audio_sdl                  
  audio_sndio                
  avx2_opt                   
  avx512bw_opt               
  bdrv_ro_whitelist          
  bdrv_rw_whitelist          
  bindir                     /usr/local/bin
  blkzoned                   
  brlapi                     
  capstone                   
  clock_adjtime              
  close_range                
  coroutine_pool             
  cpuid_h                    
  curl                       
  curses                     
  dbus_display               
  debug_graph_lock           
  debug_mutex                
  debug_tcg                  
  dup3                       
  ebpf                       
  epoll                      
  epoll_create1              
  eventfd                    
  fallocate                  
  fallocate_punch_hole       
  fallocate_zero_range       
  fdatasync                  
  fdt                        
  fiemap                     
  fsfreeze                   
  fstrim                     
  fuse                       
  fuse_lseek                 
  gbm                        
  getauxval                  
  getcpu                     
  getrandom                  
  gettid                     
  gio                        
  gnutls                     
  gnutls_crypto              
  gtk                        
  hexagon_idef_parser        
  host_dsosuf                .so
  iasl                       /bin/iasl
  inotify                    
  inotify1                   
  int128                     
  int128_type                
  iovec                      
  keyutils                   
  kvm_targets                i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
  l2tpv3                     
  libdw                      
  libudev                    
  linux                      
  linux_io_uring             
  linux_magic_h              
  madvise                    
  malloc_trim                
  memalign                   
  memfd                      
  opengl                     
  open_by_handle             
  pixman                     
  plugin                     
  png                        
  posix                      
  posix_fallocate            
  posix_madvise              
  posix_memalign             
  ppoll                      
  prctl_pr_set_timerslack    
  preadv                     
  prefix                     /usr/local
  pthread_affinity_np        
  pthread_setname_np_w_tid   
  qemu_confdir               /usr/local/etc/qemu
  qemu_datadir               /usr/local/share/qemu
  qemu_desktopdir            /usr/local/share/applications
  qemu_firmwarepath          /usr/local/share/qemu-firmware
  qemu_helperdir             /usr/local/libexec
  qemu_icondir               /usr/local/share/icons
  qemu_localedir             /usr/local/share/locale
  qemu_localstatedir         /var/local
  qemu_moddir                /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qemu
  qom_cast_debug             
  relocatable                
  replication                
  rtnetlink                  
  sdl                        
  seccomp                    
  seccomp_sysrawrc           
  secret_keyring             
  selinux                    
  sendfile                   
  setns                      
  signalfd                   
  slirp                      
  smbd_command               /usr/sbin/smbd
  splice                     
  statx                      
  statx_mnt_id               
  syncfs                     
  sync_file_range            
  sysconfdir                 /usr/local/etc
  sysmacros                  
  tasn1                      
  tcg                        1
  timerfd                    
  tls_priority               NORMAL
  tpm                        
  trace_file                 trace
  trace_log                  
  usbfs                      
  usb_libusb                 
  valgrind_h                 
  valloc                     
  vduse_blk_export           
  vhost                      
  vhost_crypto               
  vhost_kernel               
  vhost_net                  
  vhost_net_user             
  vhost_net_vdpa             
  vhost_user                 
  vhost_user_blk_server      
  vhost_vdpa                 
  virtfs                     
  vnc                        
  vnc_jpeg                   
  vte                        
  x11                        
  xen_backend                
  xen_ctrl_interface_version 41700
  xkbcommon                  
  zstd                       
  blk_zone_rep_capacity      
  btrfs_h                    
  copy_file_range            
  drm_h                      
  fsxattr                    
  getifaddrs                 
  host_block_device          
  ipproto_mptcp              
  mlockall                   
  openpty                    
  pty_h                      
  strchrnul                  
  struct_stat_st_atim        
  system_function            
  utmpx                      
  virgl_d3d_info_ext         
  host_x86_64                1
  qemu_version               9.1.50
  qemu_version_major         9
  qemu_version_micro         50
  qemu_version_minor         1

To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: "Gustavo Romero" <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
Cc: "Pierrick Bouvier" <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Cc: "Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
---
 meson.build               | 15 +++++++-
 qemu-options.hx           | 15 ++++++++
 scripts/build_info_gen.py | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 system/vl.c               | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 10464466ff..eff2ee323a 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -3292,7 +3292,20 @@ endif
 # Generated sources #
 #####################
 
-genh += configure_file(output: 'config-host.h', configuration: config_host_data)
+config_host_h = configure_file(output: 'config-host.h', configuration: config_host_data)
+genh += config_host_h
+
+build_info_h = custom_target('build-info.h',
+                             output: 'build-info.h',
+                             command: [
+                               find_program('scripts/build_info_gen.py'),
+                               '--config-headers',
+                               config_host_h
+                             ],
+                             capture: true,
+                             build_by_default: true,
+                             build_always_stale: true)
+genh += build_info_h
 
 hxtool = find_program('scripts/hxtool')
 shaderinclude = find_program('scripts/shaderinclude.py')
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index d94e2cbbae..6a32e0624f 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ SRST
     Display version information and exit
 ERST
 
+DEF("build-info", 0, QEMU_OPTION_build_info,
+    "-build-info     display build information of executable and exit\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
+SRST
+``-build-info``
+    Display build information of executable and exit
+ERST
+
+DEF("build-info-json", 0, QEMU_OPTION_build_info_json,
+    "-build-info-json\n"
+    "                dump build information of executable in JSON format and exit\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
+SRST
+``-build-info-json``
+    Dump build information of executable in JSON format and exit
+ERST
+
 DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \
     "-machine [type=]name[,prop[=value][,...]]\n"
     "                selects emulated machine ('-machine help' for list)\n"
diff --git a/scripts/build_info_gen.py b/scripts/build_info_gen.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..37a9421651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build_info_gen.py
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+"""
+Generate build information header, build-info.h,
+for output of -build-info* command line arguments.
+
+SPDX-FileContributor: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Linaro Ltd.
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+"""
+
+# Formatted with black --line-length 80 scripts/build-info-gen.py
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+
+
+def generate_key_val(header: str) -> str:
+    # pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
+
+    with open(header, encoding="utf-8") as cfg:
+        config = [l.split()[1:] for l in cfg if l.startswith("#define")]
+
+    for cfg in config:
+        if cfg[0].startswith("HAVE_"):
+            yield (cfg[0].removeprefix("HAVE_").lower(), None)
+            continue
+        yield (
+            cfg[0].removeprefix("CONFIG_").lower(),
+            (
+                cfg[1]
+                if len(cfg) == 2
+                else "".join(cfg[1:]).replace('"', "") if len(cfg) > 2 else None
+            ),
+        )
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    # pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--config-headers",
+        metavar="CONFIG_HEADER",
+        action="append",
+        dest="config_headers",
+        help="paths to configuration host C headers (*.h files)",
+        required=False,
+        default=[],
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    if args.verbose:
+        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.ERROR)
+    logging.debug("args: %s", args)
+    print(
+        """// @generated by scripts/build-info-gen.py
+
+#include <stddef.h>"""
+    )
+    print(
+        """static struct build_info_t {
+    const char *key;
+    const char *value;
+} BUILD_INFO[] = {"""
+    )
+    total = 0
+    header_width = 0
+    for header in args.config_headers:
+        for key, val in generate_key_val(header):
+            total += 1
+            header_width = max(header_width, len(key))
+            print(
+                '{"',
+                key,
+                '", "',
+                val.strip('"').strip(",").strip('"') if val else "",
+                '"},',
+                sep="",
+            )
+    print("};")
+    print("\nstatic size_t BUILD_INFO_SIZE = ", total, ";", sep="")
+    print(
+        "static unsigned int BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH = ",
+        header_width,
+        ";",
+        sep="",
+    )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
index fe547ca47c..5266b85d22 100644
--- a/system/vl.c
+++ b/system/vl.c
@@ -908,6 +908,41 @@ static void help(int exitcode)
     exit(exitcode);
 }
 
+static void build_info(const char *execname, bool as_json)
+{
+#include "build-info.h"
+    if (as_json) {
+        printf("{\n");
+        for (size_t i = 0; i + 1 < BUILD_INFO_SIZE ; i++) {
+            printf("\"%s\":\"%s\",\n",
+                   BUILD_INFO[i].key,
+                   BUILD_INFO[i].value);
+        }
+        if (BUILD_INFO_SIZE > 0) {
+            printf("\"%s\":\"%s\"\n",
+                   BUILD_INFO[BUILD_INFO_SIZE - 1].key,
+                   BUILD_INFO[BUILD_INFO_SIZE - 1].value);
+        }
+        printf("}\n");
+    } else {
+        printf("%s version "
+               QEMU_FULL_VERSION
+               " build information\n\n", execname ?:"QEMU");
+        printf("  %-*s key value\n",
+               BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
+               "configuration key");
+        printf("  %-*s ---------\n",
+               BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
+               "-----------------");
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < BUILD_INFO_SIZE ; i++) {
+            printf("  %-*s %s\n",
+                   BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
+                   BUILD_INFO[i].key,
+                   BUILD_INFO[i].value);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 enum {
 
 #define DEF(option, opt_arg, opt_enum, opt_help, arch_mask)     \
@@ -3019,6 +3054,12 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv)
                 version();
                 exit(0);
                 break;
+            case QEMU_OPTION_build_info:
+                /* fallthrough */
+            case QEMU_OPTION_build_info_json:
+                build_info(argv[0], popt->index != QEMU_OPTION_build_info);
+                exit(0);
+                break;
             case QEMU_OPTION_m:
                 opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("memory"), optarg, true);
                 if (opts == NULL) {

---
base-commit: 01dc65a3bc262ab1bec8fe89775e9bbfa627becb
change-id: 20240922-feature-build-info-cli-c9e08e34c34b

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Re: [PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Pierrick Bouvier 4 weeks, 1 day ago
On 9/22/24 23:05, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments for human and machine
> readable output of build/compile-time configuration data. The source for
> this data is the meson generated config-host.h.
> 
> This information is mainly of interest to developers and other folk who
> deal with many different builds of QEMU and need a way to properly
> differentiate them.
> 
> Because there's always the chance someone will want to consume an
> interface programmatically, also add a -json option that does the same
> but outputs a machine-readable JSON object.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Fixed alignment of command and documentation in -h output.
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240923-feature-build-info-cli-v1-1-e8c42d845390@linaro.org
> ---
> Notes:
> Sample output:
> 
> $ ./qemu-system-aarch64 -build-info
> ./qemu-system-aarch64 version 9.1.50 (v9.0.0-3444-g8d988656d8) build information
> 
>    configuration key          key value
>    -----------------          ---------
>    accept4
>    af_vsock
>    asan_iface_fiber
>    atomic64
>    attr
>    audio_alsa
>    audio_drivers              pa,sndio,oss
>    audio_oss
>    audio_pa
>    audio_pipewire
>    audio_sdl
>    audio_sndio
>    avx2_opt
>    avx512bw_opt
>    bdrv_ro_whitelist
>    bdrv_rw_whitelist
>    bindir                     /usr/local/bin
>    blkzoned
>    brlapi
>    capstone
>    clock_adjtime
>    close_range
>    coroutine_pool
>    cpuid_h
>    curl
>    curses
>    dbus_display
>    debug_graph_lock
>    debug_mutex
>    debug_tcg
>    dup3
>    ebpf
>    epoll
>    epoll_create1
>    eventfd
>    fallocate
>    fallocate_punch_hole
>    fallocate_zero_range
>    fdatasync
>    fdt
>    fiemap
>    fsfreeze
>    fstrim
>    fuse
>    fuse_lseek
>    gbm
>    getauxval
>    getcpu
>    getrandom
>    gettid
>    gio
>    gnutls
>    gnutls_crypto
>    gtk
>    hexagon_idef_parser
>    host_dsosuf                .so
>    iasl                       /bin/iasl
>    inotify
>    inotify1
>    int128
>    int128_type
>    iovec
>    keyutils
>    kvm_targets                i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
>    l2tpv3
>    libdw
>    libudev
>    linux
>    linux_io_uring
>    linux_magic_h
>    madvise
>    malloc_trim
>    memalign
>    memfd
>    opengl
>    open_by_handle
>    pixman
>    plugin
>    png
>    posix
>    posix_fallocate
>    posix_madvise
>    posix_memalign
>    ppoll
>    prctl_pr_set_timerslack
>    preadv
>    prefix                     /usr/local
>    pthread_affinity_np
>    pthread_setname_np_w_tid
>    qemu_confdir               /usr/local/etc/qemu
>    qemu_datadir               /usr/local/share/qemu
>    qemu_desktopdir            /usr/local/share/applications
>    qemu_firmwarepath          /usr/local/share/qemu-firmware
>    qemu_helperdir             /usr/local/libexec
>    qemu_icondir               /usr/local/share/icons
>    qemu_localedir             /usr/local/share/locale
>    qemu_localstatedir         /var/local
>    qemu_moddir                /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qemu
>    qom_cast_debug
>    relocatable
>    replication
>    rtnetlink
>    sdl
>    seccomp
>    seccomp_sysrawrc
>    secret_keyring
>    selinux
>    sendfile
>    setns
>    signalfd
>    slirp
>    smbd_command               /usr/sbin/smbd
>    splice
>    statx
>    statx_mnt_id
>    syncfs
>    sync_file_range
>    sysconfdir                 /usr/local/etc
>    sysmacros
>    tasn1
>    tcg                        1
>    timerfd
>    tls_priority               NORMAL
>    tpm
>    trace_file                 trace
>    trace_log
>    usbfs
>    usb_libusb
>    valgrind_h
>    valloc
>    vduse_blk_export
>    vhost
>    vhost_crypto
>    vhost_kernel
>    vhost_net
>    vhost_net_user
>    vhost_net_vdpa
>    vhost_user
>    vhost_user_blk_server
>    vhost_vdpa
>    virtfs
>    vnc
>    vnc_jpeg
>    vte
>    x11
>    xen_backend
>    xen_ctrl_interface_version 41700
>    xkbcommon
>    zstd
>    blk_zone_rep_capacity
>    btrfs_h
>    copy_file_range
>    drm_h
>    fsxattr
>    getifaddrs
>    host_block_device
>    ipproto_mptcp
>    mlockall
>    openpty
>    pty_h
>    strchrnul
>    struct_stat_st_atim
>    system_function
>    utmpx
>    virgl_d3d_info_ext
>    host_x86_64                1
>    qemu_version               9.1.50
>    qemu_version_major         9
>    qemu_version_micro         50
>    qemu_version_minor         1
> 

This is a nice addition, and an easy way to get access to this 
information, including for a qemu you compile yourself.

If there are some concerns about it becoming a "public API" for 
consumers, maybe the option could simply be hidden from help, so only 
qemu devs know it's there.

An alternative could be to distribute a "config file" with qemu, like 
what is available for Linux kernel (cat /boot/config-*). But I really 
prefer something embedded in binary and accessible via option to be honest.

> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Cc: "Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
> Cc: "John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Gustavo Romero" <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Pierrick Bouvier" <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
> ---
>   meson.build               | 15 +++++++-
>   qemu-options.hx           | 15 ++++++++
>   scripts/build_info_gen.py | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   system/vl.c               | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   4 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 10464466ff..eff2ee323a 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -3292,7 +3292,20 @@ endif
>   # Generated sources #
>   #####################
>   
> -genh += configure_file(output: 'config-host.h', configuration: config_host_data)
> +config_host_h = configure_file(output: 'config-host.h', configuration: config_host_data)
> +genh += config_host_h
> +
> +build_info_h = custom_target('build-info.h',
> +                             output: 'build-info.h',
> +                             command: [
> +                               find_program('scripts/build_info_gen.py'),
> +                               '--config-headers',
> +                               config_host_h
> +                             ],
> +                             capture: true,
> +                             build_by_default: true,
> +                             build_always_stale: true)
> +genh += build_info_h
>   
>   hxtool = find_program('scripts/hxtool')
>   shaderinclude = find_program('scripts/shaderinclude.py')
> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> index d94e2cbbae..6a32e0624f 100644
> --- a/qemu-options.hx
> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> @@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ SRST
>       Display version information and exit
>   ERST
>   
> +DEF("build-info", 0, QEMU_OPTION_build_info,
> +    "-build-info     display build information of executable and exit\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
> +SRST
> +``-build-info``
> +    Display build information of executable and exit
> +ERST
> +
> +DEF("build-info-json", 0, QEMU_OPTION_build_info_json,
> +    "-build-info-json\n"
> +    "                dump build information of executable in JSON format and exit\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
> +SRST
> +``-build-info-json``
> +    Dump build information of executable in JSON format and exit
> +ERST
> +
>   DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \
>       "-machine [type=]name[,prop[=value][,...]]\n"
>       "                selects emulated machine ('-machine help' for list)\n"
> diff --git a/scripts/build_info_gen.py b/scripts/build_info_gen.py
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000000..37a9421651
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/build_info_gen.py
> @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/env python3
> +
> +"""
> +Generate build information header, build-info.h,
> +for output of -build-info* command line arguments.
> +
> +SPDX-FileContributor: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
> +SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Linaro Ltd.
> +SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +"""
> +
> +# Formatted with black --line-length 80 scripts/build-info-gen.py
> +
> +import argparse
> +import logging
> +
> +
> +def generate_key_val(header: str) -> str:
> +    # pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
> +
> +    with open(header, encoding="utf-8") as cfg:
> +        config = [l.split()[1:] for l in cfg if l.startswith("#define")]
> +
> +    for cfg in config:
> +        if cfg[0].startswith("HAVE_"):
> +            yield (cfg[0].removeprefix("HAVE_").lower(), None)
> +            continue
> +        yield (
> +            cfg[0].removeprefix("CONFIG_").lower(),
> +            (
> +                cfg[1]
> +                if len(cfg) == 2
> +                else "".join(cfg[1:]).replace('"', "") if len(cfg) > 2 else None
> +            ),
> +        )
> +
> +
> +def main() -> None:
> +    # pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
> +    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
> +    parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
> +    parser.add_argument(
> +        "--config-headers",
> +        metavar="CONFIG_HEADER",
> +        action="append",
> +        dest="config_headers",
> +        help="paths to configuration host C headers (*.h files)",
> +        required=False,
> +        default=[],
> +    )
> +    args = parser.parse_args()
> +    if args.verbose:
> +        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.ERROR)
> +    logging.debug("args: %s", args)
> +    print(
> +        """// @generated by scripts/build-info-gen.py
> +
> +#include <stddef.h>"""
> +    )
> +    print(
> +        """static struct build_info_t {
> +    const char *key;
> +    const char *value;
> +} BUILD_INFO[] = {"""
> +    )
> +    total = 0
> +    header_width = 0
> +    for header in args.config_headers:
> +        for key, val in generate_key_val(header):
> +            total += 1
> +            header_width = max(header_width, len(key))
> +            print(
> +                '{"',
> +                key,
> +                '", "',
> +                val.strip('"').strip(",").strip('"') if val else "",
> +                '"},',
> +                sep="",
> +            )
> +    print("};")
> +    print("\nstatic size_t BUILD_INFO_SIZE = ", total, ";", sep="")
> +    print(
> +        "static unsigned int BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH = ",
> +        header_width,
> +        ";",
> +        sep="",
> +    )
> +
> +
> +if __name__ == "__main__":
> +    main()
> diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
> index fe547ca47c..5266b85d22 100644
> --- a/system/vl.c
> +++ b/system/vl.c
> @@ -908,6 +908,41 @@ static void help(int exitcode)
>       exit(exitcode);
>   }
>   
> +static void build_info(const char *execname, bool as_json)
> +{
> +#include "build-info.h"
> +    if (as_json) {
> +        printf("{\n");
> +        for (size_t i = 0; i + 1 < BUILD_INFO_SIZE ; i++) {
> +            printf("\"%s\":\"%s\",\n",
> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].key,
> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].value);
> +        }
> +        if (BUILD_INFO_SIZE > 0) {
> +            printf("\"%s\":\"%s\"\n",
> +                   BUILD_INFO[BUILD_INFO_SIZE - 1].key,
> +                   BUILD_INFO[BUILD_INFO_SIZE - 1].value);
> +        }
> +        printf("}\n");
> +    } else {
> +        printf("%s version "
> +               QEMU_FULL_VERSION
> +               " build information\n\n", execname ?:"QEMU");
> +        printf("  %-*s key value\n",
> +               BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
> +               "configuration key");
> +        printf("  %-*s ---------\n",
> +               BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
> +               "-----------------");
> +        for (size_t i = 0; i < BUILD_INFO_SIZE ; i++) {
> +            printf("  %-*s %s\n",
> +                   BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].key,
> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].value);
> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +
>   enum {
>   
>   #define DEF(option, opt_arg, opt_enum, opt_help, arch_mask)     \
> @@ -3019,6 +3054,12 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv)
>                   version();
>                   exit(0);
>                   break;
> +            case QEMU_OPTION_build_info:
> +                /* fallthrough */
> +            case QEMU_OPTION_build_info_json:
> +                build_info(argv[0], popt->index != QEMU_OPTION_build_info);
> +                exit(0);
> +                break;
>               case QEMU_OPTION_m:
>                   opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("memory"), optarg, true);
>                   if (opts == NULL) {
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 01dc65a3bc262ab1bec8fe89775e9bbfa627becb
> change-id: 20240922-feature-build-info-cli-c9e08e34c34b
> 
> --
> γαῖα πυρί μιχθήτω
> 
Re: [PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Daniel P. Berrangé 4 weeks, 1 day ago
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:05:24AM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments for human and machine
> readable output of build/compile-time configuration data. The source for
> this data is the meson generated config-host.h.
> 
> This information is mainly of interest to developers and other folk who
> deal with many different builds of QEMU and need a way to properly
> differentiate them.
> 
> Because there's always the chance someone will want to consume an
> interface programmatically, also add a -json option that does the same
> but outputs a machine-readable JSON object.

This turns our build system configuration information into a
defacto public API, and while its using JSON, it isn't yusing
QAPI.

To some degree we leak our build system config names externally
because the "if" stanzas in the QAPI schema get copied into the
docs.

Overall though I don't think we should be exposing this build
config infomation externally. We've had many times, particularly
with testing, where people have wanted to access CONFIG_XXX info
about a QEMU binary, but IIRC we've always steered people towards
querying for the actual feature they want, rather than looking
at CONFIG_XXX settings.

ie, look a query-audiodevs to discover what audio baxckends are
built-in, don't look for CONFIG_XXX settings related to audio.
If there are gaps in information we can query from QMP, we should
aim to close those gaps.

IOW, I don't think we should expose this build info info in either
human readable or machine readable format.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Fixed alignment of command and documentation in -h output.
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240923-feature-build-info-cli-v1-1-e8c42d845390@linaro.org
> ---
> Notes:
> Sample output:
> 
> $ ./qemu-system-aarch64 -build-info
> ./qemu-system-aarch64 version 9.1.50 (v9.0.0-3444-g8d988656d8) build information
> 
>   configuration key          key value
>   -----------------          ---------
>   accept4                    
>   af_vsock                   
>   asan_iface_fiber           
>   atomic64                   
>   attr                       
>   audio_alsa                 
>   audio_drivers              pa,sndio,oss
>   audio_oss                  
>   audio_pa                   
>   audio_pipewire             
>   audio_sdl                  
>   audio_sndio                
>   avx2_opt                   
>   avx512bw_opt               
>   bdrv_ro_whitelist          
>   bdrv_rw_whitelist          
>   bindir                     /usr/local/bin
>   blkzoned                   
>   brlapi                     
>   capstone                   
>   clock_adjtime              
>   close_range                
>   coroutine_pool             
>   cpuid_h                    
>   curl                       
>   curses                     
>   dbus_display               
>   debug_graph_lock           
>   debug_mutex                
>   debug_tcg                  
>   dup3                       
>   ebpf                       
>   epoll                      
>   epoll_create1              
>   eventfd                    
>   fallocate                  
>   fallocate_punch_hole       
>   fallocate_zero_range       
>   fdatasync                  
>   fdt                        
>   fiemap                     
>   fsfreeze                   
>   fstrim                     
>   fuse                       
>   fuse_lseek                 
>   gbm                        
>   getauxval                  
>   getcpu                     
>   getrandom                  
>   gettid                     
>   gio                        
>   gnutls                     
>   gnutls_crypto              
>   gtk                        
>   hexagon_idef_parser        
>   host_dsosuf                .so
>   iasl                       /bin/iasl
>   inotify                    
>   inotify1                   
>   int128                     
>   int128_type                
>   iovec                      
>   keyutils                   
>   kvm_targets                i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
>   l2tpv3                     
>   libdw                      
>   libudev                    
>   linux                      
>   linux_io_uring             
>   linux_magic_h              
>   madvise                    
>   malloc_trim                
>   memalign                   
>   memfd                      
>   opengl                     
>   open_by_handle             
>   pixman                     
>   plugin                     
>   png                        
>   posix                      
>   posix_fallocate            
>   posix_madvise              
>   posix_memalign             
>   ppoll                      
>   prctl_pr_set_timerslack    
>   preadv                     
>   prefix                     /usr/local
>   pthread_affinity_np        
>   pthread_setname_np_w_tid   
>   qemu_confdir               /usr/local/etc/qemu
>   qemu_datadir               /usr/local/share/qemu
>   qemu_desktopdir            /usr/local/share/applications
>   qemu_firmwarepath          /usr/local/share/qemu-firmware
>   qemu_helperdir             /usr/local/libexec
>   qemu_icondir               /usr/local/share/icons
>   qemu_localedir             /usr/local/share/locale
>   qemu_localstatedir         /var/local
>   qemu_moddir                /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qemu
>   qom_cast_debug             
>   relocatable                
>   replication                
>   rtnetlink                  
>   sdl                        
>   seccomp                    
>   seccomp_sysrawrc           
>   secret_keyring             
>   selinux                    
>   sendfile                   
>   setns                      
>   signalfd                   
>   slirp                      
>   smbd_command               /usr/sbin/smbd
>   splice                     
>   statx                      
>   statx_mnt_id               
>   syncfs                     
>   sync_file_range            
>   sysconfdir                 /usr/local/etc
>   sysmacros                  
>   tasn1                      
>   tcg                        1
>   timerfd                    
>   tls_priority               NORMAL
>   tpm                        
>   trace_file                 trace
>   trace_log                  
>   usbfs                      
>   usb_libusb                 
>   valgrind_h                 
>   valloc                     
>   vduse_blk_export           
>   vhost                      
>   vhost_crypto               
>   vhost_kernel               
>   vhost_net                  
>   vhost_net_user             
>   vhost_net_vdpa             
>   vhost_user                 
>   vhost_user_blk_server      
>   vhost_vdpa                 
>   virtfs                     
>   vnc                        
>   vnc_jpeg                   
>   vte                        
>   x11                        
>   xen_backend                
>   xen_ctrl_interface_version 41700
>   xkbcommon                  
>   zstd                       
>   blk_zone_rep_capacity      
>   btrfs_h                    
>   copy_file_range            
>   drm_h                      
>   fsxattr                    
>   getifaddrs                 
>   host_block_device          
>   ipproto_mptcp              
>   mlockall                   
>   openpty                    
>   pty_h                      
>   strchrnul                  
>   struct_stat_st_atim        
>   system_function            
>   utmpx                      
>   virgl_d3d_info_ext         
>   host_x86_64                1
>   qemu_version               9.1.50
>   qemu_version_major         9
>   qemu_version_micro         50
>   qemu_version_minor         1
> 
> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Cc: "Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
> Cc: "John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Gustavo Romero" <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Pierrick Bouvier" <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
> ---
>  meson.build               | 15 +++++++-
>  qemu-options.hx           | 15 ++++++++
>  scripts/build_info_gen.py | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  system/vl.c               | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 10464466ff..eff2ee323a 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -3292,7 +3292,20 @@ endif
>  # Generated sources #
>  #####################
>  
> -genh += configure_file(output: 'config-host.h', configuration: config_host_data)
> +config_host_h = configure_file(output: 'config-host.h', configuration: config_host_data)
> +genh += config_host_h
> +
> +build_info_h = custom_target('build-info.h',
> +                             output: 'build-info.h',
> +                             command: [
> +                               find_program('scripts/build_info_gen.py'),
> +                               '--config-headers',
> +                               config_host_h
> +                             ],
> +                             capture: true,
> +                             build_by_default: true,
> +                             build_always_stale: true)
> +genh += build_info_h
>  
>  hxtool = find_program('scripts/hxtool')
>  shaderinclude = find_program('scripts/shaderinclude.py')
> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> index d94e2cbbae..6a32e0624f 100644
> --- a/qemu-options.hx
> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> @@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ SRST
>      Display version information and exit
>  ERST
>  
> +DEF("build-info", 0, QEMU_OPTION_build_info,
> +    "-build-info     display build information of executable and exit\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
> +SRST
> +``-build-info``
> +    Display build information of executable and exit
> +ERST
> +
> +DEF("build-info-json", 0, QEMU_OPTION_build_info_json,
> +    "-build-info-json\n"
> +    "                dump build information of executable in JSON format and exit\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
> +SRST
> +``-build-info-json``
> +    Dump build information of executable in JSON format and exit
> +ERST
> +
>  DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \
>      "-machine [type=]name[,prop[=value][,...]]\n"
>      "                selects emulated machine ('-machine help' for list)\n"
> diff --git a/scripts/build_info_gen.py b/scripts/build_info_gen.py
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000000..37a9421651
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/build_info_gen.py
> @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/env python3
> +
> +"""
> +Generate build information header, build-info.h,
> +for output of -build-info* command line arguments.
> +
> +SPDX-FileContributor: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
> +SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Linaro Ltd.
> +SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +"""
> +
> +# Formatted with black --line-length 80 scripts/build-info-gen.py
> +
> +import argparse
> +import logging
> +
> +
> +def generate_key_val(header: str) -> str:
> +    # pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
> +
> +    with open(header, encoding="utf-8") as cfg:
> +        config = [l.split()[1:] for l in cfg if l.startswith("#define")]
> +
> +    for cfg in config:
> +        if cfg[0].startswith("HAVE_"):
> +            yield (cfg[0].removeprefix("HAVE_").lower(), None)
> +            continue
> +        yield (
> +            cfg[0].removeprefix("CONFIG_").lower(),
> +            (
> +                cfg[1]
> +                if len(cfg) == 2
> +                else "".join(cfg[1:]).replace('"', "") if len(cfg) > 2 else None
> +            ),
> +        )
> +
> +
> +def main() -> None:
> +    # pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
> +    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
> +    parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
> +    parser.add_argument(
> +        "--config-headers",
> +        metavar="CONFIG_HEADER",
> +        action="append",
> +        dest="config_headers",
> +        help="paths to configuration host C headers (*.h files)",
> +        required=False,
> +        default=[],
> +    )
> +    args = parser.parse_args()
> +    if args.verbose:
> +        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.ERROR)
> +    logging.debug("args: %s", args)
> +    print(
> +        """// @generated by scripts/build-info-gen.py
> +
> +#include <stddef.h>"""
> +    )
> +    print(
> +        """static struct build_info_t {
> +    const char *key;
> +    const char *value;
> +} BUILD_INFO[] = {"""
> +    )
> +    total = 0
> +    header_width = 0
> +    for header in args.config_headers:
> +        for key, val in generate_key_val(header):
> +            total += 1
> +            header_width = max(header_width, len(key))
> +            print(
> +                '{"',
> +                key,
> +                '", "',
> +                val.strip('"').strip(",").strip('"') if val else "",
> +                '"},',
> +                sep="",
> +            )
> +    print("};")
> +    print("\nstatic size_t BUILD_INFO_SIZE = ", total, ";", sep="")
> +    print(
> +        "static unsigned int BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH = ",
> +        header_width,
> +        ";",
> +        sep="",
> +    )
> +
> +
> +if __name__ == "__main__":
> +    main()
> diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
> index fe547ca47c..5266b85d22 100644
> --- a/system/vl.c
> +++ b/system/vl.c
> @@ -908,6 +908,41 @@ static void help(int exitcode)
>      exit(exitcode);
>  }
>  
> +static void build_info(const char *execname, bool as_json)
> +{
> +#include "build-info.h"
> +    if (as_json) {
> +        printf("{\n");
> +        for (size_t i = 0; i + 1 < BUILD_INFO_SIZE ; i++) {
> +            printf("\"%s\":\"%s\",\n",
> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].key,
> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].value);
> +        }
> +        if (BUILD_INFO_SIZE > 0) {
> +            printf("\"%s\":\"%s\"\n",
> +                   BUILD_INFO[BUILD_INFO_SIZE - 1].key,
> +                   BUILD_INFO[BUILD_INFO_SIZE - 1].value);
> +        }
> +        printf("}\n");
> +    } else {
> +        printf("%s version "
> +               QEMU_FULL_VERSION
> +               " build information\n\n", execname ?:"QEMU");
> +        printf("  %-*s key value\n",
> +               BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
> +               "configuration key");
> +        printf("  %-*s ---------\n",
> +               BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
> +               "-----------------");
> +        for (size_t i = 0; i < BUILD_INFO_SIZE ; i++) {
> +            printf("  %-*s %s\n",
> +                   BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].key,
> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].value);
> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +
>  enum {
>  
>  #define DEF(option, opt_arg, opt_enum, opt_help, arch_mask)     \
> @@ -3019,6 +3054,12 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv)
>                  version();
>                  exit(0);
>                  break;
> +            case QEMU_OPTION_build_info:
> +                /* fallthrough */
> +            case QEMU_OPTION_build_info_json:
> +                build_info(argv[0], popt->index != QEMU_OPTION_build_info);
> +                exit(0);
> +                break;
>              case QEMU_OPTION_m:
>                  opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("memory"), optarg, true);
>                  if (opts == NULL) {
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 01dc65a3bc262ab1bec8fe89775e9bbfa627becb
> change-id: 20240922-feature-build-info-cli-c9e08e34c34b
> 
> --
> γαῖα πυρί μιχθήτω
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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Re: [PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Manos Pitsidianakis 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Hello Daniel,

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:45, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:05:24AM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
>> Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments for human and machine
>> readable output of build/compile-time configuration data. The source for
>> this data is the meson generated config-host.h.
>> 
>> This information is mainly of interest to developers and other folk who
>> deal with many different builds of QEMU and need a way to properly
>> differentiate them.
>> 
>> Because there's always the chance someone will want to consume an
>> interface programmatically, also add a -json option that does the same
>> but outputs a machine-readable JSON object.
>
>This turns our build system configuration information into a
>defacto public API, and while its using JSON, it isn't yusing
>QAPI.
>
>To some degree we leak our build system config names externally
>because the "if" stanzas in the QAPI schema get copied into the
>docs.
>
>Overall though I don't think we should be exposing this build
>config infomation externally. We've had many times, particularly
>with testing, where people have wanted to access CONFIG_XXX info
>about a QEMU binary, but IIRC we've always steered people towards
>querying for the actual feature they want, rather than looking
>at CONFIG_XXX settings.
>
>ie, look a query-audiodevs to discover what audio baxckends are
>built-in, don't look for CONFIG_XXX settings related to audio.
>If there are gaps in information we can query from QMP, we should
>aim to close those gaps.
>
>IOW, I don't think we should expose this build info info in either
>human readable or machine readable format.

QAPI/QMP is not the perspective of this patch, this is for people who 
use custom-built (i.e. not from a distro) binaries and want to be able 
to identify how it was built. Launching a binary to query stuff is 
unnecessarily complex for this task, and the info is not generally 
interesting to the API consumers as you said.


Manos

>
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Fixed alignment of command and documentation in -h output.
>> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240923-feature-build-info-cli-v1-1-e8c42d845390@linaro.org
>> ---
>> Notes:
>> Sample output:
>> 
>> $ ./qemu-system-aarch64 -build-info
>> ./qemu-system-aarch64 version 9.1.50 (v9.0.0-3444-g8d988656d8) build information
>> 
>>   configuration key          key value
>>   -----------------          ---------
>>   accept4                    
>>   af_vsock                   
>>   asan_iface_fiber           
>>   atomic64                   
>>   attr                       
>>   audio_alsa                 
>>   audio_drivers              pa,sndio,oss
>>   audio_oss                  
>>   audio_pa                   
>>   audio_pipewire             
>>   audio_sdl                  
>>   audio_sndio                
>>   avx2_opt                   
>>   avx512bw_opt               
>>   bdrv_ro_whitelist          
>>   bdrv_rw_whitelist          
>>   bindir                     /usr/local/bin
>>   blkzoned                   
>>   brlapi                     
>>   capstone                   
>>   clock_adjtime              
>>   close_range                
>>   coroutine_pool             
>>   cpuid_h                    
>>   curl                       
>>   curses                     
>>   dbus_display               
>>   debug_graph_lock           
>>   debug_mutex                
>>   debug_tcg                  
>>   dup3                       
>>   ebpf                       
>>   epoll                      
>>   epoll_create1              
>>   eventfd                    
>>   fallocate                  
>>   fallocate_punch_hole       
>>   fallocate_zero_range       
>>   fdatasync                  
>>   fdt                        
>>   fiemap                     
>>   fsfreeze                   
>>   fstrim                     
>>   fuse                       
>>   fuse_lseek                 
>>   gbm                        
>>   getauxval                  
>>   getcpu                     
>>   getrandom                  
>>   gettid                     
>>   gio                        
>>   gnutls                     
>>   gnutls_crypto              
>>   gtk                        
>>   hexagon_idef_parser        
>>   host_dsosuf                .so
>>   iasl                       /bin/iasl
>>   inotify                    
>>   inotify1                   
>>   int128                     
>>   int128_type                
>>   iovec                      
>>   keyutils                   
>>   kvm_targets                i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu
>>   l2tpv3                     
>>   libdw                      
>>   libudev                    
>>   linux                      
>>   linux_io_uring             
>>   linux_magic_h              
>>   madvise                    
>>   malloc_trim                
>>   memalign                   
>>   memfd                      
>>   opengl                     
>>   open_by_handle             
>>   pixman                     
>>   plugin                     
>>   png                        
>>   posix                      
>>   posix_fallocate            
>>   posix_madvise              
>>   posix_memalign             
>>   ppoll                      
>>   prctl_pr_set_timerslack    
>>   preadv                     
>>   prefix                     /usr/local
>>   pthread_affinity_np        
>>   pthread_setname_np_w_tid   
>>   qemu_confdir               /usr/local/etc/qemu
>>   qemu_datadir               /usr/local/share/qemu
>>   qemu_desktopdir            /usr/local/share/applications
>>   qemu_firmwarepath          /usr/local/share/qemu-firmware
>>   qemu_helperdir             /usr/local/libexec
>>   qemu_icondir               /usr/local/share/icons
>>   qemu_localedir             /usr/local/share/locale
>>   qemu_localstatedir         /var/local
>>   qemu_moddir                /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qemu
>>   qom_cast_debug             
>>   relocatable                
>>   replication                
>>   rtnetlink                  
>>   sdl                        
>>   seccomp                    
>>   seccomp_sysrawrc           
>>   secret_keyring             
>>   selinux                    
>>   sendfile                   
>>   setns                      
>>   signalfd                   
>>   slirp                      
>>   smbd_command               /usr/sbin/smbd
>>   splice                     
>>   statx                      
>>   statx_mnt_id               
>>   syncfs                     
>>   sync_file_range            
>>   sysconfdir                 /usr/local/etc
>>   sysmacros                  
>>   tasn1                      
>>   tcg                        1
>>   timerfd                    
>>   tls_priority               NORMAL
>>   tpm                        
>>   trace_file                 trace
>>   trace_log                  
>>   usbfs                      
>>   usb_libusb                 
>>   valgrind_h                 
>>   valloc                     
>>   vduse_blk_export           
>>   vhost                      
>>   vhost_crypto               
>>   vhost_kernel               
>>   vhost_net                  
>>   vhost_net_user             
>>   vhost_net_vdpa             
>>   vhost_user                 
>>   vhost_user_blk_server      
>>   vhost_vdpa                 
>>   virtfs                     
>>   vnc                        
>>   vnc_jpeg                   
>>   vte                        
>>   x11                        
>>   xen_backend                
>>   xen_ctrl_interface_version 41700
>>   xkbcommon                  
>>   zstd                       
>>   blk_zone_rep_capacity      
>>   btrfs_h                    
>>   copy_file_range            
>>   drm_h                      
>>   fsxattr                    
>>   getifaddrs                 
>>   host_block_device          
>>   ipproto_mptcp              
>>   mlockall                   
>>   openpty                    
>>   pty_h                      
>>   strchrnul                  
>>   struct_stat_st_atim        
>>   system_function            
>>   utmpx                      
>>   virgl_d3d_info_ext         
>>   host_x86_64                1
>>   qemu_version               9.1.50
>>   qemu_version_major         9
>>   qemu_version_micro         50
>>   qemu_version_minor         1
>> 
>> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>> Cc: "Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
>> Cc: "John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>> Cc: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> Cc: "Gustavo Romero" <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
>> Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
>> Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
>> Cc: "Pierrick Bouvier" <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
>> Cc: "Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  meson.build               | 15 +++++++-
>>  qemu-options.hx           | 15 ++++++++
>>  scripts/build_info_gen.py | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  system/vl.c               | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
>> index 10464466ff..eff2ee323a 100644
>> --- a/meson.build
>> +++ b/meson.build
>> @@ -3292,7 +3292,20 @@ endif
>>  # Generated sources #
>>  #####################
>>  
>> -genh += configure_file(output: 'config-host.h', configuration: config_host_data)
>> +config_host_h = configure_file(output: 'config-host.h', configuration: config_host_data)
>> +genh += config_host_h
>> +
>> +build_info_h = custom_target('build-info.h',
>> +                             output: 'build-info.h',
>> +                             command: [
>> +                               find_program('scripts/build_info_gen.py'),
>> +                               '--config-headers',
>> +                               config_host_h
>> +                             ],
>> +                             capture: true,
>> +                             build_by_default: true,
>> +                             build_always_stale: true)
>> +genh += build_info_h
>>  
>>  hxtool = find_program('scripts/hxtool')
>>  shaderinclude = find_program('scripts/shaderinclude.py')
>> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
>> index d94e2cbbae..6a32e0624f 100644
>> --- a/qemu-options.hx
>> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
>> @@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ SRST
>>      Display version information and exit
>>  ERST
>>  
>> +DEF("build-info", 0, QEMU_OPTION_build_info,
>> +    "-build-info     display build information of executable and exit\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
>> +SRST
>> +``-build-info``
>> +    Display build information of executable and exit
>> +ERST
>> +
>> +DEF("build-info-json", 0, QEMU_OPTION_build_info_json,
>> +    "-build-info-json\n"
>> +    "                dump build information of executable in JSON format and exit\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
>> +SRST
>> +``-build-info-json``
>> +    Dump build information of executable in JSON format and exit
>> +ERST
>> +
>>  DEF("machine", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_machine, \
>>      "-machine [type=]name[,prop[=value][,...]]\n"
>>      "                selects emulated machine ('-machine help' for list)\n"
>> diff --git a/scripts/build_info_gen.py b/scripts/build_info_gen.py
>> new file mode 100755
>> index 0000000000..37a9421651
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/scripts/build_info_gen.py
>> @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
>> +#!/usr/bin/env python3
>> +
>> +"""
>> +Generate build information header, build-info.h,
>> +for output of -build-info* command line arguments.
>> +
>> +SPDX-FileContributor: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
>> +SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Linaro Ltd.
>> +SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
>> +"""
>> +
>> +# Formatted with black --line-length 80 scripts/build-info-gen.py
>> +
>> +import argparse
>> +import logging
>> +
>> +
>> +def generate_key_val(header: str) -> str:
>> +    # pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
>> +
>> +    with open(header, encoding="utf-8") as cfg:
>> +        config = [l.split()[1:] for l in cfg if l.startswith("#define")]
>> +
>> +    for cfg in config:
>> +        if cfg[0].startswith("HAVE_"):
>> +            yield (cfg[0].removeprefix("HAVE_").lower(), None)
>> +            continue
>> +        yield (
>> +            cfg[0].removeprefix("CONFIG_").lower(),
>> +            (
>> +                cfg[1]
>> +                if len(cfg) == 2
>> +                else "".join(cfg[1:]).replace('"', "") if len(cfg) > 2 else None
>> +            ),
>> +        )
>> +
>> +
>> +def main() -> None:
>> +    # pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
>> +    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>> +    parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="store_true")
>> +    parser.add_argument(
>> +        "--config-headers",
>> +        metavar="CONFIG_HEADER",
>> +        action="append",
>> +        dest="config_headers",
>> +        help="paths to configuration host C headers (*.h files)",
>> +        required=False,
>> +        default=[],
>> +    )
>> +    args = parser.parse_args()
>> +    if args.verbose:
>> +        logging.basicConfig(level=logging.ERROR)
>> +    logging.debug("args: %s", args)
>> +    print(
>> +        """// @generated by scripts/build-info-gen.py
>> +
>> +#include <stddef.h>"""
>> +    )
>> +    print(
>> +        """static struct build_info_t {
>> +    const char *key;
>> +    const char *value;
>> +} BUILD_INFO[] = {"""
>> +    )
>> +    total = 0
>> +    header_width = 0
>> +    for header in args.config_headers:
>> +        for key, val in generate_key_val(header):
>> +            total += 1
>> +            header_width = max(header_width, len(key))
>> +            print(
>> +                '{"',
>> +                key,
>> +                '", "',
>> +                val.strip('"').strip(",").strip('"') if val else "",
>> +                '"},',
>> +                sep="",
>> +            )
>> +    print("};")
>> +    print("\nstatic size_t BUILD_INFO_SIZE = ", total, ";", sep="")
>> +    print(
>> +        "static unsigned int BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH = ",
>> +        header_width,
>> +        ";",
>> +        sep="",
>> +    )
>> +
>> +
>> +if __name__ == "__main__":
>> +    main()
>> diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
>> index fe547ca47c..5266b85d22 100644
>> --- a/system/vl.c
>> +++ b/system/vl.c
>> @@ -908,6 +908,41 @@ static void help(int exitcode)
>>      exit(exitcode);
>>  }
>>  
>> +static void build_info(const char *execname, bool as_json)
>> +{
>> +#include "build-info.h"
>> +    if (as_json) {
>> +        printf("{\n");
>> +        for (size_t i = 0; i + 1 < BUILD_INFO_SIZE ; i++) {
>> +            printf("\"%s\":\"%s\",\n",
>> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].key,
>> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].value);
>> +        }
>> +        if (BUILD_INFO_SIZE > 0) {
>> +            printf("\"%s\":\"%s\"\n",
>> +                   BUILD_INFO[BUILD_INFO_SIZE - 1].key,
>> +                   BUILD_INFO[BUILD_INFO_SIZE - 1].value);
>> +        }
>> +        printf("}\n");
>> +    } else {
>> +        printf("%s version "
>> +               QEMU_FULL_VERSION
>> +               " build information\n\n", execname ?:"QEMU");
>> +        printf("  %-*s key value\n",
>> +               BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
>> +               "configuration key");
>> +        printf("  %-*s ---------\n",
>> +               BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
>> +               "-----------------");
>> +        for (size_t i = 0; i < BUILD_INFO_SIZE ; i++) {
>> +            printf("  %-*s %s\n",
>> +                   BUILD_INFO_HEADER_WIDTH,
>> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].key,
>> +                   BUILD_INFO[i].value);
>> +        }
>> +    }
>> +}
>> +
>>  enum {
>>  
>>  #define DEF(option, opt_arg, opt_enum, opt_help, arch_mask)     \
>> @@ -3019,6 +3054,12 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv)
>>                  version();
>>                  exit(0);
>>                  break;
>> +            case QEMU_OPTION_build_info:
>> +                /* fallthrough */
>> +            case QEMU_OPTION_build_info_json:
>> +                build_info(argv[0], popt->index != QEMU_OPTION_build_info);
>> +                exit(0);
>> +                break;
>>              case QEMU_OPTION_m:
>>                  opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(qemu_find_opts("memory"), optarg, true);
>>                  if (opts == NULL) {
>> 
>> ---
>> base-commit: 01dc65a3bc262ab1bec8fe89775e9bbfa627becb
>> change-id: 20240922-feature-build-info-cli-c9e08e34c34b
>> 
>> --
>> γαῖα πυρί μιχθήτω
>> 
>
>With regards,
>Daniel
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Re: [PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Daniel P. Berrangé 4 weeks ago
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:32PM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:45, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:05:24AM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> > > Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments for human and machine
> > > readable output of build/compile-time configuration data. The source for
> > > this data is the meson generated config-host.h.
> > > 
> > > This information is mainly of interest to developers and other folk who
> > > deal with many different builds of QEMU and need a way to properly
> > > differentiate them.
> > > 
> > > Because there's always the chance someone will want to consume an
> > > interface programmatically, also add a -json option that does the same
> > > but outputs a machine-readable JSON object.
> > 
> > This turns our build system configuration information into a
> > defacto public API, and while its using JSON, it isn't yusing
> > QAPI.
> > 
> > To some degree we leak our build system config names externally
> > because the "if" stanzas in the QAPI schema get copied into the
> > docs.
> > 
> > Overall though I don't think we should be exposing this build
> > config infomation externally. We've had many times, particularly
> > with testing, where people have wanted to access CONFIG_XXX info
> > about a QEMU binary, but IIRC we've always steered people towards
> > querying for the actual feature they want, rather than looking
> > at CONFIG_XXX settings.
> > 
> > ie, look a query-audiodevs to discover what audio baxckends are
> > built-in, don't look for CONFIG_XXX settings related to audio.
> > If there are gaps in information we can query from QMP, we should
> > aim to close those gaps.
> > 
> > IOW, I don't think we should expose this build info info in either
> > human readable or machine readable format.
> 
> QAPI/QMP is not the perspective of this patch, this is for people who use
> custom-built (i.e. not from a distro) binaries and want to be able to
> identify how it was built. Launching a binary to query stuff is
> unnecessarily complex for this task, and the info is not generally
> interesting to the API consumers as you said.

Launching QEMU to talk QMP is our defined public API for querying
anything about the capabilities of QEMU. We're worked hard to get
away from providing ad-hoc ways to query QEMU from the command
line and going back to that is not desirable. It may be slightly
more complicated, but not by very much.

With regards,
Daniel
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Re: [PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Manos Pitsidianakis 4 weeks ago
Hello Daniel,

On Tue, 24 Sept 2024 at 11:45, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:32PM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> > Hello Daniel,
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:45, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:05:24AM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> > > > Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments for human and machine
> > > > readable output of build/compile-time configuration data. The source for
> > > > this data is the meson generated config-host.h.
> > > >
> > > > This information is mainly of interest to developers and other folk who
> > > > deal with many different builds of QEMU and need a way to properly
> > > > differentiate them.
> > > >
> > > > Because there's always the chance someone will want to consume an
> > > > interface programmatically, also add a -json option that does the same
> > > > but outputs a machine-readable JSON object.
> > >
> > > This turns our build system configuration information into a
> > > defacto public API, and while its using JSON, it isn't yusing
> > > QAPI.
> > >
> > > To some degree we leak our build system config names externally
> > > because the "if" stanzas in the QAPI schema get copied into the
> > > docs.
> > >
> > > Overall though I don't think we should be exposing this build
> > > config infomation externally. We've had many times, particularly
> > > with testing, where people have wanted to access CONFIG_XXX info
> > > about a QEMU binary, but IIRC we've always steered people towards
> > > querying for the actual feature they want, rather than looking
> > > at CONFIG_XXX settings.
> > >
> > > ie, look a query-audiodevs to discover what audio baxckends are
> > > built-in, don't look for CONFIG_XXX settings related to audio.
> > > If there are gaps in information we can query from QMP, we should
> > > aim to close those gaps.
> > >
> > > IOW, I don't think we should expose this build info info in either
> > > human readable or machine readable format.
> >
> > QAPI/QMP is not the perspective of this patch, this is for people who use
> > custom-built (i.e. not from a distro) binaries and want to be able to
> > identify how it was built. Launching a binary to query stuff is
> > unnecessarily complex for this task, and the info is not generally
> > interesting to the API consumers as you said.
>
> Launching QEMU to talk QMP is our defined public API for querying
> anything about the capabilities of QEMU. We're worked hard to get
> away from providing ad-hoc ways to query QEMU from the command
> line and going back to that is not desirable. It may be slightly
> more complicated, but not by very much.

Again, this is not a "capabilities discovery" API. It lists the
build-time configuration of the binary. Perhaps we can expose it in a
different way so that people don't end up confused?

Manos

-- 
Manos Pitsidianakis
Emulation and Virtualization Engineer at Linaro Ltd
Re: [PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Alex Bennée 4 weeks ago
Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> writes:

> Hello Daniel,
>
> On Tue, 24 Sept 2024 at 11:45, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:32PM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
>> > Hello Daniel,
>> >
>> > On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:45, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:05:24AM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
<snip>
>> > > ie, look a query-audiodevs to discover what audio baxckends are
>> > > built-in, don't look for CONFIG_XXX settings related to audio.
>> > > If there are gaps in information we can query from QMP, we should
>> > > aim to close those gaps.
>> > >
>> > > IOW, I don't think we should expose this build info info in either
>> > > human readable or machine readable format.
>> >
>> > QAPI/QMP is not the perspective of this patch, this is for people who use
>> > custom-built (i.e. not from a distro) binaries and want to be able to
>> > identify how it was built. Launching a binary to query stuff is
>> > unnecessarily complex for this task, and the info is not generally
>> > interesting to the API consumers as you said.
>>
>> Launching QEMU to talk QMP is our defined public API for querying
>> anything about the capabilities of QEMU. We're worked hard to get
>> away from providing ad-hoc ways to query QEMU from the command
>> line and going back to that is not desirable. It may be slightly
>> more complicated, but not by very much.
>
> Again, this is not a "capabilities discovery" API. It lists the
> build-time configuration of the binary. Perhaps we can expose it in a
> different way so that people don't end up confused?

I think the problem is however much we might say it's not a capabilities
discovery API it's very existence encourages users to use it as one.

What about a script:

  qemu-get-build-info </path/to/qemu>

which would launch the binary and query it over QMP? Would that work?

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
Re: [PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Daniel P. Berrangé 4 weeks ago
On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 01:02:26PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> writes:
> 
> > Hello Daniel,
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Sept 2024 at 11:45, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:32PM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> >> > Hello Daniel,
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:45, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:05:24AM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> <snip>
> >> > > ie, look a query-audiodevs to discover what audio baxckends are
> >> > > built-in, don't look for CONFIG_XXX settings related to audio.
> >> > > If there are gaps in information we can query from QMP, we should
> >> > > aim to close those gaps.
> >> > >
> >> > > IOW, I don't think we should expose this build info info in either
> >> > > human readable or machine readable format.
> >> >
> >> > QAPI/QMP is not the perspective of this patch, this is for people who use
> >> > custom-built (i.e. not from a distro) binaries and want to be able to
> >> > identify how it was built. Launching a binary to query stuff is
> >> > unnecessarily complex for this task, and the info is not generally
> >> > interesting to the API consumers as you said.
> >>
> >> Launching QEMU to talk QMP is our defined public API for querying
> >> anything about the capabilities of QEMU. We're worked hard to get
> >> away from providing ad-hoc ways to query QEMU from the command
> >> line and going back to that is not desirable. It may be slightly
> >> more complicated, but not by very much.
> >
> > Again, this is not a "capabilities discovery" API. It lists the
> > build-time configuration of the binary. Perhaps we can expose it in a
> > different way so that people don't end up confused?
> 
> I think the problem is however much we might say it's not a capabilities
> discovery API it's very existence encourages users to use it as one.
> 
> What about a script:
> 
>   qemu-get-build-info </path/to/qemu>
> 
> which would launch the binary and query it over QMP? Would that work?

If this is purely a debugging aid, we could make use of ELF notes to
just stick the config-host.h content into the binary. This has precedent
in systemd package notes (https://github.com/systemd/package-notes) and
is more clearly *NOT* an end user CLI option, nor a public API in QMP.

Querying is then

    objdump -j .note.qemu-config-h -s /usrbin/qemu-system-x86_64


With regards,
Daniel
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Re: [PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Pierrick Bouvier 3 weeks, 6 days ago
On 9/24/24 05:08, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 01:02:26PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>
>>> On Tue, 24 Sept 2024 at 11:45, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:32PM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
>>>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:45, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:05:24AM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>>> ie, look a query-audiodevs to discover what audio baxckends are
>>>>>> built-in, don't look for CONFIG_XXX settings related to audio.
>>>>>> If there are gaps in information we can query from QMP, we should
>>>>>> aim to close those gaps.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> IOW, I don't think we should expose this build info info in either
>>>>>> human readable or machine readable format.
>>>>>
>>>>> QAPI/QMP is not the perspective of this patch, this is for people who use
>>>>> custom-built (i.e. not from a distro) binaries and want to be able to
>>>>> identify how it was built. Launching a binary to query stuff is
>>>>> unnecessarily complex for this task, and the info is not generally
>>>>> interesting to the API consumers as you said.
>>>>
>>>> Launching QEMU to talk QMP is our defined public API for querying
>>>> anything about the capabilities of QEMU. We're worked hard to get
>>>> away from providing ad-hoc ways to query QEMU from the command
>>>> line and going back to that is not desirable. It may be slightly
>>>> more complicated, but not by very much.
>>>
>>> Again, this is not a "capabilities discovery" API. It lists the
>>> build-time configuration of the binary. Perhaps we can expose it in a
>>> different way so that people don't end up confused?
>>
>> I think the problem is however much we might say it's not a capabilities
>> discovery API it's very existence encourages users to use it as one.
>>
>> What about a script:
>>
>>    qemu-get-build-info </path/to/qemu>
>>
>> which would launch the binary and query it over QMP? Would that work?
> 
> If this is purely a debugging aid, we could make use of ELF notes to
> just stick the config-host.h content into the binary. This has precedent
> in systemd package notes (https://github.com/systemd/package-notes) and
> is more clearly *NOT* an end user CLI option, nor a public API in QMP.
> 
> Querying is then
> 
>      objdump -j .note.qemu-config-h -s /usrbin/qemu-system-x86_64
> 
> 
> With regards,
> Daniel

This is neat!
@Manos: it would be convenient to still have a script as Alex mentioned, 
as remembering in which notes the information is hidden might be annoying.
Re: [PATCH v2] Add -build-info and -build-info-json CLI arguments
Posted by Manos Pitsidianakis 4 weeks ago
Hello Daniel,

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 3:08 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 01:02:26PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> > Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> writes:
> >
> > > Hello Daniel,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 24 Sept 2024 at 11:45, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 10:09:32PM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> > >> > Hello Daniel,
> > >> >
> > >> > On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:45, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <
> berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >> > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 09:05:24AM +0300, Manos Pitsidianakis
> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > >> > > ie, look a query-audiodevs to discover what audio baxckends are
> > >> > > built-in, don't look for CONFIG_XXX settings related to audio.
> > >> > > If there are gaps in information we can query from QMP, we should
> > >> > > aim to close those gaps.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > IOW, I don't think we should expose this build info info in either
> > >> > > human readable or machine readable format.
> > >> >
> > >> > QAPI/QMP is not the perspective of this patch, this is for people
> who use
> > >> > custom-built (i.e. not from a distro) binaries and want to be able
> to
> > >> > identify how it was built. Launching a binary to query stuff is
> > >> > unnecessarily complex for this task, and the info is not generally
> > >> > interesting to the API consumers as you said.
> > >>
> > >> Launching QEMU to talk QMP is our defined public API for querying
> > >> anything about the capabilities of QEMU. We're worked hard to get
> > >> away from providing ad-hoc ways to query QEMU from the command
> > >> line and going back to that is not desirable. It may be slightly
> > >> more complicated, but not by very much.
> > >
> > > Again, this is not a "capabilities discovery" API. It lists the
> > > build-time configuration of the binary. Perhaps we can expose it in a
> > > different way so that people don't end up confused?
> >
> > I think the problem is however much we might say it's not a capabilities
> > discovery API it's very existence encourages users to use it as one.
> >
> > What about a script:
> >
> >   qemu-get-build-info </path/to/qemu>
> >
> > which would launch the binary and query it over QMP? Would that work?
>
> If this is purely a debugging aid, we could make use of ELF notes to
> just stick the config-host.h content into the binary. This has precedent
> in systemd package notes (https://github.com/systemd/package-notes) and
> is more clearly *NOT* an end user CLI option, nor a public API in QMP.
>
> Querying is then
>
>     objdump -j .note.qemu-config-h -s /usrbin/qemu-system-x86_64
>

That's actually a way better solution! I will attempt it for the next
revision.

Manos

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