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-rw-r--r--block.c3
-rw-r--r--docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt20
-rw-r--r--hw/i386/pc.c6
-rw-r--r--hw/net/rocker/rocker.c6
-rw-r--r--hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.c12
-rw-r--r--qom/object.c4
6 files changed, 21 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index e9f40dc768..53a978acbe 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -1795,8 +1795,7 @@ int bdrv_reopen_prepare(BDRVReopenState *reopen_state, BlockReopenQueue *queue,
ret = bdrv_flush(reopen_state->bs);
if (ret) {
- error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, "Error (%s) flushing drive",
- strerror(-ret));
+ error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Error flushing drive");
goto error;
}
diff --git a/docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt b/docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt
index 8647cac4e7..59aa77ae25 100644
--- a/docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt
+++ b/docs/writing-qmp-commands.txt
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ if you don't see these strings, then something went wrong.
=== Errors ===
QMP commands should use the error interface exported by the error.h header
-file. Basically, errors are set by calling the error_set() function.
+file. Basically, most errors are set by calling the error_setg() function.
Let's say we don't accept the string "message" to contain the word "love". If
it does contain it, we want the "hello-world" command to return an error:
@@ -219,8 +219,7 @@ void qmp_hello_world(bool has_message, const char *message, Error **errp)
{
if (has_message) {
if (strstr(message, "love")) {
- error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
- "the word 'love' is not allowed");
+ error_setg(errp, "the word 'love' is not allowed");
return;
}
printf("%s\n", message);
@@ -229,10 +228,8 @@ void qmp_hello_world(bool has_message, const char *message, Error **errp)
}
}
-The first argument to the error_set() function is the Error pointer to pointer,
-which is passed to all QMP functions. The second argument is a ErrorClass
-value, which should be ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR most of the time (more
-details about error classes are given below). The third argument is a human
+The first argument to the error_setg() function is the Error pointer
+to pointer, which is passed to all QMP functions. The next argument is a human
description of the error, this is a free-form printf-like string.
Let's test the example above. Build qemu, run it as defined in the "Testing"
@@ -249,8 +246,9 @@ The QMP server's response should be:
}
}
-As a general rule, all QMP errors should use ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR. There
-are two exceptions to this rule:
+As a general rule, all QMP errors should use ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR
+(done by default when using error_setg()). There are two exceptions to
+this rule:
1. A non-generic ErrorClass value exists* for the failure you want to report
(eg. DeviceNotFound)
@@ -259,8 +257,8 @@ are two exceptions to this rule:
want to report, hence you have to add a new ErrorClass value so that they
can check for it
-If the failure you want to report doesn't fall in one of the two cases above,
-just report ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR.
+If the failure you want to report falls into one of the two cases above,
+use error_set() with a second argument of an ErrorClass value.
* All existing ErrorClass values are defined in the qapi-schema.json file
diff --git a/hw/i386/pc.c b/hw/i386/pc.c
index 0cb8afd2c2..5e20e07b6f 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc.c
@@ -1795,9 +1795,9 @@ static void pc_machine_set_max_ram_below_4g(Object *obj, Visitor *v,
return;
}
if (value > (1ULL << 32)) {
- error_set(&error, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
- "Machine option 'max-ram-below-4g=%"PRIu64
- "' expects size less than or equal to 4G", value);
+ error_setg(&error,
+ "Machine option 'max-ram-below-4g=%"PRIu64
+ "' expects size less than or equal to 4G", value);
error_propagate(errp, error);
return;
}
diff --git a/hw/net/rocker/rocker.c b/hw/net/rocker/rocker.c
index bb6fdc364d..c57f1a661a 100644
--- a/hw/net/rocker/rocker.c
+++ b/hw/net/rocker/rocker.c
@@ -101,8 +101,7 @@ RockerSwitch *qmp_query_rocker(const char *name, Error **errp)
r = rocker_find(name);
if (!r) {
- error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
- "rocker %s not found", name);
+ error_setg(errp, "rocker %s not found", name);
return NULL;
}
@@ -122,8 +121,7 @@ RockerPortList *qmp_query_rocker_ports(const char *name, Error **errp)
r = rocker_find(name);
if (!r) {
- error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
- "rocker %s not found", name);
+ error_setg(errp, "rocker %s not found", name);
return NULL;
}
diff --git a/hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.c b/hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.c
index 1ad2791965..3cf1d61fe4 100644
--- a/hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.c
+++ b/hw/net/rocker/rocker_of_dpa.c
@@ -2462,15 +2462,13 @@ RockerOfDpaFlowList *qmp_query_rocker_of_dpa_flows(const char *name,
r = rocker_find(name);
if (!r) {
- error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
- "rocker %s not found", name);
+ error_setg(errp, "rocker %s not found", name);
return NULL;
}
w = rocker_get_world(r, ROCKER_WORLD_TYPE_OF_DPA);
if (!w) {
- error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
- "rocker %s doesn't have OF-DPA world", name);
+ error_setg(errp, "rocker %s doesn't have OF-DPA world", name);
return NULL;
}
@@ -2597,15 +2595,13 @@ RockerOfDpaGroupList *qmp_query_rocker_of_dpa_groups(const char *name,
r = rocker_find(name);
if (!r) {
- error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
- "rocker %s not found", name);
+ error_setg(errp, "rocker %s not found", name);
return NULL;
}
w = rocker_get_world(r, ROCKER_WORLD_TYPE_OF_DPA);
if (!w) {
- error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
- "rocker %s doesn't have OF-DPA world", name);
+ error_setg(errp, "rocker %s doesn't have OF-DPA world", name);
return NULL;
}
diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index fc6e161088..c0decb6e96 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -1330,8 +1330,8 @@ static Object *object_resolve_link(Object *obj, const char *name,
target = object_resolve_path_type(path, target_type, &ambiguous);
if (ambiguous) {
- error_set(errp, ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
- "Path '%s' does not uniquely identify an object", path);
+ error_setg(errp, "Path '%s' does not uniquely identify an object",
+ path);
} else if (!target) {
target = object_resolve_path(path, &ambiguous);
if (target || ambiguous) {