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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v8 6/7] qemu_thread_create: propagate th


From: Fei Li
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v8 6/7] qemu_thread_create: propagate the error to callers to handle
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 20:40:06 +0800
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On 12/17/2018 03:29 PM, Fei Li wrote:


On 12/13/2018 03:26 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
There's a question for David Gibson inline.  Please search for /ppc/.

Fei Li <address@hidden> writes:

Make qemu_thread_create() return a Boolean to indicate if it succeeds
rather than failing with an error. And add an Error parameter to hold
the error message and let the callers handle it.
The "rather than failing with an error" is misleading.  Before the
patch, we report to stderr and abort().  What about:

     qemu-thread: Make qemu_thread_create() handle errors properly

     qemu_thread_create() abort()s on error.  Not nice.  Give it a
     return value and an Error ** argument, so it can return success /
     failure.
A nice commit-amend! Thanks!
Still missing from the commit message then: how you update the callers.
Yes, agree. I think the-how should also be noted here, like
- propagating the err to callers whose call trace already have the Error paramater; - just add an &error_abort for qemu_thread_create() and make it a "TODO: xxx";
Let's see below.
According to your below comment and suggestion, I make a summary for
the second paragraph for the commit message, please help to review, thanks. :)

/* ...The first paragraph and the middle blank... */
And let's update qemu_thread_create()'s callers by
- setting an error on qemu_thread_create() failure for callers that
  set an error on failure;
- reporting the error and returning failure for callers that return
  an error code on failure;
- reporting the error and setting some state for callers that just
  report errors and choose not to continue on.
- passing &error_abort for qemu_thread_create() for callers that
  can't return failure, and marking a "TODO: " for further change.

Have a nice day
Fei




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