From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Conole Subject: [PATCH v6 18/26] eal: do not panic on interrupt thread init Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:53:07 -0500 Message-ID: <20170228185315.12546-19-aconole@redhat.com> References: <20170227161811.12309-1-aconole@redhat.com> <20170228185315.12546-1-aconole@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Bruce Richardson To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 778462B86 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:53:28 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20170228185315.12546-1-aconole@redhat.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" When initializing the interrupt thread, there are a number of possible reasons for failure - some of which are correctable by the application. Do not panic() needlessly, and give the application a change to reflect this information to the user. Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole Acked-by: Bruce Richardson --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c index 73a7d38..d174ad4 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -894,8 +894,10 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) rte_config.master_lcore, (int)thread_id, cpuset, ret == 0 ? "" : "..."); - if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0) - rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n"); + if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0) { + rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n"); + return -1; + } if (rte_bus_scan()) rte_panic("Cannot scan the buses for devices\n"); -- 2.9.3