Re: [PATCH 6/7] util/memfd: Improve error message when memfd_create() fails

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2026 at 01:23:41PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> qemu_memfd_create() reports something like
> 
>     failed to create memfd with flags 0x3: Invalid argument
> 
> when memfd_create() fails.  To make sense of this, you have to
> understand what flags are, and how to decode them.
> 
> qemu_memfd_create() computes the flags from @seals and @hugetlb, so
> show these instead, like this:
> 
>     failed to create memfd with sealing and without huge pages: Invalid argument
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> ---
>  util/memfd.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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