Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V8 4/5] hostmem: add more information in error messages

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 01:26:24PM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
> When there are multiple memory backends in use, including the object type
> name, ID and the property name in the error message can help users to
> locate the error.

I don't see the object ID anywhere in the code below.

With the commit message corrected:

Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

I'm queueing it on machine-next.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  backends/hostmem-file.c | 6 ++++--
>  backends/hostmem.c      | 8 +++++---
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/backends/hostmem-file.c b/backends/hostmem-file.c
> index e640749..0dd7a90 100644
> --- a/backends/hostmem-file.c
> +++ b/backends/hostmem-file.c
> @@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ static void set_mem_path(Object *o, const char *str, Error **errp)
>      HostMemoryBackendFile *fb = MEMORY_BACKEND_FILE(o);
>  
>      if (host_memory_backend_mr_inited(backend)) {
> -        error_setg(errp, "cannot change property value");
> +        error_setg(errp, "cannot change property 'mem-path' of %s",
> +                   object_get_typename(o));
>          return;
>      }
>      g_free(fb->mem_path);
> @@ -120,7 +121,8 @@ static void file_memory_backend_set_align(Object *o, Visitor *v,
>      uint64_t val;
>  
>      if (host_memory_backend_mr_inited(backend)) {
> -        error_setg(&local_err, "cannot change property value");
> +        error_setg(&local_err, "cannot change property '%s' of %s",
> +                   name, object_get_typename(o));
>          goto out;
>      }
>  
> diff --git a/backends/hostmem.c b/backends/hostmem.c
> index 1a89342..e2bcf9f 100644
> --- a/backends/hostmem.c
> +++ b/backends/hostmem.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ host_memory_backend_set_size(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
>      uint64_t value;
>  
>      if (host_memory_backend_mr_inited(backend)) {
> -        error_setg(&local_err, "cannot change property value");
> +        error_setg(&local_err, "cannot change property %s of %s ",
> +                   name, object_get_typename(obj));
>          goto out;
>      }
>  
> @@ -56,8 +57,9 @@ host_memory_backend_set_size(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
>          goto out;
>      }
>      if (!value) {
> -        error_setg(&local_err, "Property '%s.%s' doesn't take value '%"
> -                   PRIu64 "'", object_get_typename(obj), name, value);
> +        error_setg(&local_err,
> +                   "property '%s' of %s doesn't take value '%" PRIu64 "'",
> +                   name, object_get_typename(obj), value);
>          goto out;
>      }
>      backend->size = value;
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
> 

-- 
Eduardo