This patch introduces a new parser helper, parse_u64_with_suffix(),
which has a better error handling, following all the parse_*()
helpers to return non-zero value for errors.
This new helper is going to replace parse_size_from_string(), which
would directly call exit(1) to stop the whole program.
Furthermore most callers of parse_size_from_string() are expecting
exit(1) for error, so that they can skip the error handling.
For those call sites, introduce a wrapper, arg_strtou64_with_suffix(),
to do that. The only disadvantage is a little less detailed error
report for why the parse failed, but for most cases the generic error
string should be enough.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Both functions are just doing the same thing, the only difference is
only in error handling, as parse_u64() requires callers to handle it,
meanwhile arg_strtou64() would call exit(1).
This patch would convert arg_strtou64() to utilize parse_u64(), and use
the return value to output different error messages.
This also means the return value of parse_u64() would be more than just
0 or 1, but -EINVAL for invalid string (including no numeric string at
all, has any tailing characters, or minus value), and -ERANGE for
overflow.
The existing callers are only checking if the return value is 0, thus
not really affected.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Lots of code still uses fprintf(stderr, "...") that should be the
error() helper. The kernel-shared code is left out of the conversion for
now.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Qu Wenruo
David Sterba