From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvVD9-0002we-2z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:33:55 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48130 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvVD7-0002vH-8C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:33:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvVD5-0001Yc-SU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:33:53 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.82.174]:49016) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvVD5-0001YW-Nw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:33:51 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:33:50 +0100 From: Aurelien Jarno Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [trivial one-liner] be more specific in -mem-path error messages Message-ID: <20100327123350.GA19617@volta.aurel32.net> References: <4B9F3AEA.8010408@msgid.tls.msk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B9F3AEA.8010408@msgid.tls.msk.ru> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Tokarev Cc: qemu-devel 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; > > > -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net