Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/11] qemu_iotests: improve debugging options

[Markus Armbruster]

Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com> writes:

> This series adds the option to attach gdbserver and valgrind
> to the QEMU binary running in qemu_iotests.
> It also allows to redirect QEMU binaries output of the python tests
> to the stdout, instead of a log file.
>
> Patches 1-6 introduce the -gdb option to both python and bash tests, 
> 7-10 extend the already existing -valgrind flag to work also on 
> python tests, and patch 11 introduces -p to enable logging to stdout.
>
> In particular, patches 1,2,4,8 focus on extending the QMP socket timers
> when using gdb/valgrind, otherwise the python tests will fail due to
> delays in the QMP responses.
>
> This series is tested on the previous serie
> "qemu-iotests: quality of life improvements"
> but independent from it, so it can be applied separately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>

How discoverable are these goodies for developers with only superficial
knowledge of iotests?