From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4611BF969 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2017 15:30:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx16.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0895680E9; Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-25-97.bos.redhat.com (unknown [10.10.123.29]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F17F7FEE2; Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:30:14 +0000 (UTC) From: Aaron Conole To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Bruce Richardson Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 09:29:42 -0500 Message-Id: <20170209142953.8167-15-aconole@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170209142953.8167-1-aconole@redhat.com> References: <20170208185142.28678-1-aconole@redhat.com> <20170209142953.8167-1-aconole@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 on 10.5.11.28 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.38]); Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 14/25] eal: do not panic on tailq init X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:30:15 -0000 There are some theoretical racy conditions in the system that _could_ cause early tailq init to fail; however, no need to panic the application. While it can't continue using DPDK, it could make better alerts to the user. Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole --- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c | 3 +-- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c index bb08ec8..4f69828 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c @@ -188,8 +188,7 @@ rte_eal_tailqs_init(void) if (t->head == NULL) { RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot initialize tailq: %s\n", t->name); - /* no need to TAILQ_REMOVE, we are going to panic in - * rte_eal_init() */ + /* TAILQ_REMOVE not needed, error is already fatal */ goto fail; } } diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c index 97ee409..9e2daca 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -857,8 +857,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) return -1; } - if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0) - rte_panic("Cannot init tail queues for objects\n"); + if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0) { + RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot init tail queues for objects\n"); + rte_errno = EFAULT; + return -1; + } if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0) rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n"); -- 2.9.3