Hi, Yasmin. Congratulations on your first patch!
On 02/09/2018 05:31 PM, Yasmin Beatriz wrote: > This patch intends to make a more specific message for when > the system has not enough space to save guest memory. > > Reported-by: yilzh...@redhat.com > Cc: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <jos...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Yasmin Beatriz <yasm...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > dump.c | 9 ++++++++- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/dump.c b/dump.c > index e9dfed060a..eb56ff53f6 100644 > --- a/dump.c > +++ b/dump.c > @@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ static int fd_write_vmcore(const void *buf, size_t size, > void *opaque) > > written_size = qemu_write_full(s->fd, buf, size); > if (written_size != size) { > + if (errno == ENOSPC) { > + return -ENOSPC; > + } > return -1; > } > > @@ -364,7 +367,11 @@ static void write_data(DumpState *s, void *buf, int > length, Error **errp) > > ret = fd_write_vmcore(buf, length, s); > if (ret < 0) { > - error_setg(errp, "dump: failed to save memory"); > + if (ret == -ENOSPC) { > + error_setg(errp, "dump: not enough space to save memory"); > + } else { > + error_setg(errp, "dump: failed to save memory"); > + } If fd_write_vmcore() returned -errno, as Daniel Barboza suggested, it could be used in error_setg_errno(). Something like this: diff --git a/dump.c b/dump.c index e9dfed060a..313a7460a7 100644 --- a/dump.c +++ b/dump.c @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static int fd_write_vmcore(const void *buf, size_t size, void *opaque) written_size = qemu_write_full(s->fd, buf, size); if (written_size != size) { - return -1; + return -errno; } return 0; @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ static void write_data(DumpState *s, void *buf, int length, Error **errp) ret = fd_write_vmcore(buf, length, s); if (ret < 0) { - error_setg(errp, "dump: failed to save memory"); + error_setg_errno(errp, ret, "dump: failed to save memory"); } else { s->written_size += length; } With this, other reasons of errno would also be considered, not only ENOSPC. Cheers Murilo