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[v2,3/9] vfio: Rephrase comment in vfio_listener_region_add() error path

Message ID 20250130134346.1754143-4-clg@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series vfio: Improve error reporting when MMIO region mapping fails | expand

Commit Message

Cédric Le Goater Jan. 30, 2025, 1:43 p.m. UTC 
Rephrase a bit the ending comment about how errors are handled
depending on the phase in which vfio_listener_region_add() is called.

Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
---
 hw/vfio/common.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/hw/vfio/common.c b/hw/vfio/common.c
index f7499a9b7447a7593198e1523c50858b70a8bd85..62af1216fc5a9089fc718c2afe3a405d9381db32 100644
--- a/hw/vfio/common.c
+++ b/hw/vfio/common.c
@@ -683,12 +683,13 @@  fail:
         error_reportf_err(err, "PCI p2p may not work: ");
         return;
     }
-    /*
-     * On the initfn path, store the first error in the container so we
-     * can gracefully fail.  Runtime, there's not much we can do other
-     * than throw a hardware error.
-     */
+
     if (!bcontainer->initialized) {
+        /*
+         * At machine init time or when the device is attached to the
+         * VM, store the first error in the container so we can
+         * gracefully fail the device realize routine.
+         */
         if (!bcontainer->error) {
             error_propagate_prepend(&bcontainer->error, err,
                                     "Region %s: ",
@@ -697,6 +698,10 @@  fail:
             error_free(err);
         }
     } else {
+        /*
+         * At runtime, there's not much we can do other than throw a
+         * hardware error.
+         */
         error_report_err(err);
         hw_error("vfio: DMA mapping failed, unable to continue");
     }