[PATCH 1/9] remoteproc: core: Ensure error message is clear

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Tue Aug 9 11:12:43 PDT 2016


On Tue, 09 Aug 2016, Bjorn Andersson wrote:

> On Thu 04 Aug 02:21 PDT 2016, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > Before this patch, the dma_alloc_coherent() failure path printed out:
> > 
> >   "dma_alloc_coherent err: 16760832"
> > 
> > ... alluding to the Linux error code being 16760832, but seeing as
> > Linux error codes are all negative, this looks like a signed/unsigned
> > issue.  In fact, the message is trying to print the length of the
> > requested memory region.  Let's clear that up.
> > 
> > While we're at it, let's standardise the way 'len' is printed.  In
> > all other locations 'len' is in hex prefixed by a '0x' for clarity.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at linaro.org>

Again, this can just be applied.

> > ---
> >  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c | 5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> > index aea29a75c..3566dc9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> > @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ static int rproc_handle_carveout(struct rproc *rproc,
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	dev_dbg(dev, "carveout rsc: da %x, pa %x, len %x, flags %x\n",
> > +	dev_dbg(dev, "carveout rsc: da %x, pa %x, len 0x%x, flags %x\n",
> >  			rsc->da, rsc->pa, rsc->len, rsc->flags);
> >  
> >  	carveout = kzalloc(sizeof(*carveout), GFP_KERNEL);
> > @@ -590,7 +590,8 @@ static int rproc_handle_carveout(struct rproc *rproc,
> >  
> >  	va = dma_alloc_coherent(dev->parent, rsc->len, &dma, GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (!va) {
> > -		dev_err(dev->parent, "dma_alloc_coherent err: %d\n", rsc->len);
> > +		dev_err(dev->parent,
> > +			"failed to allocate dma memory: len 0x%x\n", rsc->len);
> >  		ret = -ENOMEM;
> >  		goto free_carv;
> >  	}

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