[PATCH -next 12/15] drm/vmwgfx: Improve on host message error messages

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom at vmware.com
Tue Jul 3 19:14:57 UTC 2018


Make sure the error messages are a bit more descriptive, so that
a log reader may understand what's gone wrong.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh at vmware.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c
index 21d746bdc922..a72268e97042 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_msg.c
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static int vmw_recv_msg(struct rpc_channel *channel, void **msg,
 
 		if ((HIGH_WORD(ecx) & MESSAGE_STATUS_SUCCESS) == 0 ||
 		    (HIGH_WORD(ecx) & MESSAGE_STATUS_HB) == 0) {
-			DRM_ERROR("Failed to get reply size\n");
+			DRM_ERROR("Failed to get reply size for host message.\n");
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
 
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static int vmw_recv_msg(struct rpc_channel *channel, void **msg,
 		reply_len = ebx;
 		reply     = kzalloc(reply_len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!reply) {
-			DRM_ERROR("Cannot allocate memory for reply\n");
+			DRM_ERROR("Cannot allocate memory for host message reply.\n");
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 
@@ -338,7 +338,8 @@ int vmw_host_get_guestinfo(const char *guest_info_param,
 
 	msg = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "info-get %s", guest_info_param);
 	if (!msg) {
-		DRM_ERROR("Cannot allocate memory to get %s", guest_info_param);
+		DRM_ERROR("Cannot allocate memory to get guest info \"%s\".",
+			  guest_info_param);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
@@ -374,7 +375,7 @@ int vmw_host_get_guestinfo(const char *guest_info_param,
 out_open:
 	*length = 0;
 	kfree(msg);
-	DRM_ERROR("Failed to get %s", guest_info_param);
+	DRM_ERROR("Failed to get guest info \"%s\".", guest_info_param);
 
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
@@ -403,7 +404,7 @@ int vmw_host_log(const char *log)
 
 	msg = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "log %s", log);
 	if (!msg) {
-		DRM_ERROR("Cannot allocate memory for log message\n");
+		DRM_ERROR("Cannot allocate memory for host log message.\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
@@ -422,7 +423,7 @@ int vmw_host_log(const char *log)
 	vmw_close_channel(&channel);
 out_open:
 	kfree(msg);
-	DRM_ERROR("Failed to send log\n");
+	DRM_ERROR("Failed to send host log message.\n");
 
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
-- 
2.18.0.rc1



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