[PATCH v3 09/18] vfio: selftests: Upgrade driver logging to dev_err()

David Matlack
2025-11-21T18:14:53Z

Upgrade various logging in the VFIO selftests drivers from dev_info() to
dev_err(). All of these logs indicate scenarios that may be unexpected.
For example, the logging during probing indicates matching devices but
that aren't supported by the driver. And the memcpy errors can indicate
a problem if the caller was not trying to do something like exercise I/O
fault handling. Exercising I/O fault handling is certainly a valid thing
to do, but the driver can't infer the caller's expectations, so better
to just log with dev_err().

Suggested-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Mastro <amastro@fb.com>
Tested-by: Alex Mastro <amastro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/dsa/dsa.c | 4 ++--
tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/ioat/ioat.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/dsa/dsa.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/dsa/dsa.c
index 8d667be80229..0afbab0d82de 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/dsa/dsa.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/dsa/dsa.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static int dsa_probe(struct vfio_pci_device *device)
return -EINVAL;

if (dsa_int_handle_request_required(device)) {
- dev_info(device, "Device requires requesting interrupt handles\n");
+ dev_err(device, "Device requires requesting interrupt handles\n");
return -EINVAL;
}

@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static int dsa_completion_wait(struct vfio_pci_device *device,
if (status == DSA_COMP_SUCCESS)
return 0;

- dev_info(device, "Error detected during memcpy operation: 0x%x\n", status);
+ dev_err(device, "Error detected during memcpy operation: 0x%x\n", status);
return -1;
}

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/ioat/ioat.c b/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/ioat/ioat.c
index e04dce1d544c..c6db311ce64d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/ioat/ioat.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vfio/lib/drivers/ioat/ioat.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static int ioat_probe(struct vfio_pci_device *device)
r = 0;
break;
default:
- dev_info(device, "ioat: Unsupported version: 0x%x\n", version);
+ dev_err(device, "ioat: Unsupported version: 0x%x\n", version);
r = -EINVAL;
}
return r;
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ static void ioat_handle_error(struct vfio_pci_device *device)
{
void *registers = ioat_channel_registers(device);

- dev_info(device, "Error detected during memcpy operation!\n"
+ dev_err(device, "Error detected during memcpy operation!\n"
" CHANERR: 0x%x\n"
" CHANERR_INT: 0x%x\n"
" DMAUNCERRSTS: 0x%x\n",
--
2.52.0.rc2.455.g230fcf2819-goog