From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [trivial one-liner] be more specific in -mem-path error messages
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:33:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100327123350.GA19617@volta.aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B9F3AEA.8010408@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:01:46AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> The error message qemu gives when hugetlbfs is not
> accessible is cryptic at best:
>
> mkstemp: Permission denied
>
> Make it a bit more specific instead:
>
> unable to create backing store for hugepages: Permission denied
>
> Thanks!
It looks good, but needs a Signed-off-by: line.
> /mjt
>
> diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
> index 891e0ee..985bdde 100644
> --- a/exec.c
> +++ b/exec.c
> @@ -2569,5 +2569,5 @@ static void *file_ram_alloc(ram_addr_t memory, const char *path)
> fd = mkstemp(filename);
> if (fd < 0) {
> - perror("mkstemp");
> + perror("unable to create backing store for hugepages");
> free(filename);
> return NULL;
>
>
>
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2010-03-16 8:01 [Qemu-devel] [trivial one-liner] be more specific in -mem-path error messages Michael Tokarev
2010-03-27 12:33 ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
2010-03-27 13:35 ` Michael Tokarev
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