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| author | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> | 2013-08-22 11:29:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> | 2013-09-18 15:34:51 +0200 |
| commit | a5813077aac7865f69b7ee46a594f3705429f7cd (patch) | |
| tree | 903e1d953b00ac44f65b6ef88c3d93bac0d26b4b /util | |
| parent | 975a0015ee380f49a3be744279a6a06ab97e960a (diff) | |
osdep: warn if open(O_DIRECT) on fails with EINVAL
Print a warning when opening a file O_DIRECT fails with EINVAL. This
saves users a lot of time trying to figure out the EINVAL error, which
is typical when attempting to open a file O_DIRECT on Linux tmpfs.
Reported-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'util')
| -rw-r--r-- | util/osdep.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/util/osdep.c b/util/osdep.c index 685c8ae889..62072b4be3 100644 --- a/util/osdep.c +++ b/util/osdep.c @@ -207,6 +207,13 @@ int qemu_open(const char *name, int flags, ...) } #endif +#ifdef O_DIRECT + if (ret == -1 && errno == EINVAL && (flags & O_DIRECT)) { + error_report("file system may not support O_DIRECT"); + errno = EINVAL; /* in case it was clobbered */ + } +#endif /* O_DIRECT */ + return ret; } |