chardev: add logtimestamp option

Add an option to inject timestamps into serial log file.
That simplifies debugging a lot, when you can simply compare
QEMU logs with guest console logs.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20260201173633.413934-4-vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c
index 4b285baf02..48b326d57b 100644
--- a/chardev/char.c
+++ b/chardev/char.c
@@ -82,12 +82,8 @@ void qemu_chr_be_event(Chardev *s, QEMUChrEvent event)
     CHARDEV_GET_CLASS(s)->chr_be_event(s, event);
 }
 
-static void qemu_chr_write_log(Chardev *s, const uint8_t *buf, size_t len)
+static void do_write_log(Chardev *s, const uint8_t *buf, size_t len)
 {
-    if (s->logfd < 0) {
-        return;
-    }
-
     if (qemu_write_full(s->logfd, buf, len) < len) {
         /*
          * qemu_write_full() is defined with G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT,
@@ -96,6 +92,55 @@ static void qemu_chr_write_log(Chardev *s, const uint8_t *buf, size_t len)
     }
 }
 
+static void do_write_log_timestamps(Chardev *s, const uint8_t *buf, size_t len)
+{
+    g_autofree char *timestr = NULL;
+
+    while (len) {
+        size_t i;
+
+        if (s->log_line_start) {
+            if (!timestr) {
+                timestr = real_time_iso8601();
+            }
+            do_write_log(s, (const uint8_t *)timestr, strlen(timestr));
+            do_write_log(s, (const uint8_t *)" ", 1);
+            s->log_line_start = false;
+        }
+
+        for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+            if (buf[i] == '\n') {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (i == len) {
+            /* not found \n */
+            do_write_log(s, buf, len);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        i += 1;
+        do_write_log(s, buf, i);
+        buf += i;
+        len -= i;
+        s->log_line_start = true;
+    }
+}
+
+static void qemu_chr_write_log(Chardev *s, const uint8_t *buf, size_t len)
+{
+    if (s->logfd < 0) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    if (s->logtimestamp) {
+        do_write_log_timestamps(s, buf, len);
+    } else {
+        do_write_log(s, buf, len);
+    }
+}
+
 static int qemu_chr_write_buffer(Chardev *s,
                                  const uint8_t *buf, int len,
                                  int *offset, bool write_all)
@@ -248,6 +293,7 @@ static bool qemu_char_open(Chardev *chr, ChardevBackend *backend, Error **errp)
         } else {
             flags |= O_TRUNC;
         }
+        chr->logtimestamp = common->has_logtimestamp && common->logtimestamp;
         chr->logfd = qemu_create(common->logfile, flags, 0666, errp);
         if (chr->logfd < 0) {
             return false;
@@ -267,6 +313,7 @@ static void char_init(Object *obj)
 
     chr->handover_yank_instance = false;
     chr->logfd = -1;
+    chr->log_line_start = true;
     qemu_mutex_init(&chr->chr_write_lock);
 
     /*
@@ -505,6 +552,9 @@ void qemu_chr_parse_common(QemuOpts *opts, ChardevCommon *backend)
     backend->logfile = g_strdup(logfile);
     backend->has_logappend = true;
     backend->logappend = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "logappend", false);
+
+    backend->has_logtimestamp = true;
+    backend->logtimestamp = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "logtimestamp", false);
 }
 
 static const ChardevClass *char_get_class(const char *driver, Error **errp)
@@ -957,6 +1007,9 @@ QemuOptsList qemu_chardev_opts = {
             .name = "logappend",
             .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
         },{
+            .name = "logtimestamp",
+            .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
+        },{
             .name = "mouse",
             .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
         },{