Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] target/riscv/kvm: improve 'init_multiext_cfg' error msg

[Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 10:21:47AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> Our error message is returning the value of 'ret', which will be always
> -1 in case of error, and will not be that useful:
> 
> qemu-system-riscv64: Unable to read ISA_EXT KVM register ssaia, error -1
> 
> Improve the error message by outputting 'errno' instead of 'ret'. Use
> strerrorname_np() to output the error name instead of the error code.
> This will give us what we need to know right away:
> 
> qemu-system-riscv64: Unable to read ISA_EXT KVM register ssaia, error code: ENOENT
> 
> Given that we're going to exit(1) in this condition instead of
> attempting to recover, remove the 'kvm_riscv_destroy_scratch_vcpu()'
> call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
> ---
>  target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c b/target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
> index c6615cb807..c3daf74fe9 100644
> --- a/target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
> +++ b/target/riscv/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
> @@ -792,8 +792,8 @@ static void kvm_riscv_init_multiext_cfg(RISCVCPU *cpu, KVMScratchCPU *kvmcpu)
>                  val = false;
>              } else {
>                  error_report("Unable to read ISA_EXT KVM register %s, "
> -                             "error %d", multi_ext_cfg->name, ret);
> -                kvm_riscv_destroy_scratch_vcpu(kvmcpu);
> +                             "error code: %s", multi_ext_cfg->name,
> +                             strerrorname_np(errno));
>                  exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
>              }
>          } else {
> -- 
> 2.41.0
>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>