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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Liu Jinsong <jinsong.liu@alibaba-inc.com>,
	Christoph Egger <chegger@amazon.de>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/mce: Translate passed-in GPA to host machine address
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 14:50:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F82223.8010305@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150915134242.GA2747@hzzhang-OptiPlex-9020.sh.intel.com>

On 15/09/15 14:42, Haozhong Zhang wrote:
>
>>> +                mfn = mfn_x(get_gfn(d, gpfn, &t));
>>> +
>>> +                if (mfn == INVALID_MFN) {
>>> +                    put_domain(d);
>>> +                    return x86_mcerr("do_mca inject: illegal MSR value",
>>> +                                     -EINVAL);
>> This message should be better distinguishable from the one further
>> down (or else it's pretty pointless) - perhaps you mean GPFN instead
>> of MSR?
>>
> Yes, I'll change it to "do_mca_inject: illegal GPFN".

Please always always always write useful error messages.  "illegal GPFN"
is useless without also stating which value is believed to be invalid.

Furthermore, per the clarification in c/s e758ed1, "gfn" is the correct
term to use here.

~Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-15 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-15  8:29 [PATCH 0/4] Fix tools/xen-mceinj to handle >=4GB guest memory Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15  8:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86/mce: Fix code style Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15  8:47   ` Egger, Christoph
2015-09-15 13:13   ` Jan Beulich
2015-09-15 13:19     ` Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15  8:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] tools/mceinject: " Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15  8:48   ` Egger, Christoph
2015-09-15 10:15     ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-15 13:11   ` Wei Liu
2015-09-15  8:29 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86/mce: Translate passed-in GPA to host machine address Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15  9:14   ` Egger, Christoph
2015-09-15  9:48     ` Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15 13:24   ` Jan Beulich
2015-09-15 13:42     ` Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15 13:47       ` Jan Beulich
2015-09-15 13:51         ` Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15 13:50       ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2015-09-16  0:38         ` Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15  8:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] tools/xen-mceinj: Pass in GPA when injecting through MSR_MCI_ADDR Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15 10:02   ` Wei Liu
2015-09-15 10:08     ` Egger, Christoph
2015-09-15 10:16       ` Wei Liu
2015-09-15 10:17   ` Egger, Christoph
2015-09-15 10:28     ` Haozhong Zhang
2015-09-15 10:34       ` Egger, Christoph
2015-09-15 10:20   ` Ian Campbell
2015-09-15 10:38     ` Haozhong Zhang

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