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From: Corneliu ZUZU <czuzu@bitdefender.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] x86/vm_event/monitor/cr: check for vm-event subscriber on domctl
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 19:20:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a90b66db-5942-e724-e79b-fb870258535e@bitdefender.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9645650d-58c1-f446-ec82-9ed6fa96ca2d@bitdefender.com>

On 7/6/2016 7:15 PM, Corneliu ZUZU wrote:
> On 7/6/2016 7:01 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 06.07.16 at 17:52, <czuzu@bitdefender.com> wrote:
>>> Also adjust returned error code for similar check from -EINVAL to more
>>> descriptive -ENOSYS (XEN_DOMCTL_MONITOR_OP_EMULATE_EACH_REP).
>> I'm not sure that's more descriptive, and we really try to not use
>> ENOSYS for other than unimplemented hypercalls. EOPNOTSUPP
>> perhaps?
>>
>> Jan
>
> Well,  it's not quite an 'unsupported operation' and neither does the 
> toolstack user communicate an 'invalid value', he must just be noticed 
> that something (the vm-event subsystem) needs to be initialised before 
> the operation can be done.
> But I agree ENOSYS is not acceptable either (I only now see it 
> signifies "Function not implemented", my bad for not peeking at that 
> before using it, I expected differently).
>
> What about ENODEV, i.e. "No such device."? We need an error code 
> saying "Device not initialised"...
>
> Thanks,
> Corneliu.

Or ENOTCONN..?

Corneliu.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-06 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-06 15:49 [PATCH v3 0/8] x86/vm-event: Adjustments & fixes Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-06 15:49 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] x86/vmx_update_guest_cr: minor optimization Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08 11:39   ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08 11:48     ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-08 11:55       ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08 12:11         ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-08 12:18   ` Ping: " Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-11  2:37   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-07-06 15:50 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] x86/vm-event/monitor: relocate code-motion more appropriately Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08  7:21   ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-08 10:22     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08 10:37       ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-08 11:33         ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08 11:53           ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-08 11:57             ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08 15:50   ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-07-08 17:58     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-11  2:52   ` Tian, Kevin
2016-07-06 15:51 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] x86/vm-event/monitor: don't compromise monitor_write_data on domain cleanup Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08  7:35   ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-08 10:28     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08 10:38       ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-06 15:52 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] x86/vm_event/monitor/cr: check for vm-event subscriber on domctl Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-06 16:01   ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-06 16:15     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-06 16:20       ` Corneliu ZUZU [this message]
2016-07-07  7:30       ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-07  7:53         ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-07  8:18   ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-06 15:53 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] x86/vm_event_resume: surround VM_EVENT_REASON_MOV_TO_MSR w/ CONFIG_X86 Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-06 15:54 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] x86/vm-event: minor ASSERT fix, add 'unlikely' Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-07  8:27   ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-07  8:35     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-07  8:53       ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-07 23:24   ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-07-06 15:55 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] minor fixes (formatting, comments, unused includes etc.) Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-08  7:56   ` Jan Beulich
2016-07-08 10:37     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-07-06 15:55 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] minor #include change Corneliu ZUZU

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