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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 06/26] eal-common: introduce a way to
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On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:02:49AM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> This adds a new API to check for the eal cpu versions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_cpuflags.c          | 13 +++++++++++--
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_cpuflags.h |  9 +++++++++
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_cpuflags.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_cpuflags.c
> index b5f76f7..2c2127b 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_cpuflags.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_cpuflags.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,13 @@
>  void
>  rte_cpu_check_supported(void)
>  {
> +	if (!rte_cpu_is_supported())
> +		exit(1);
> +}
> +
> +bool
> +rte_cpu_is_supported(void)
> +{
>  	/* This is generated at compile-time by the build system */
>  	static const enum rte_cpu_flag_t compile_time_flags[] = {
>  			RTE_COMPILE_TIME_CPUFLAGS
> @@ -57,14 +64,16 @@ rte_cpu_check_supported(void)
>  			fprintf(stderr,
>  				"ERROR: CPU feature flag lookup failed with error %d\n",
>  				ret);
> -			exit(1);
> +			return false;
>  		}
>  		if (!ret) {
>  			fprintf(stderr,
>  			        "ERROR: This system does not support \"%s\".\n"
>  			        "Please check that RTE_MACHINE is set correctly.\n",
>  			        rte_cpu_get_flag_name(compile_time_flags[i]));
> -			exit(1);
> +			return false;
>  		}
>  	}
> +
> +	return true;
>  }
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_cpuflags.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_cpuflags.h
> index 71321f3..e4342ad 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_cpuflags.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_cpuflags.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>   */
>  
>  #include <errno.h>
> +#include <stdbool.h>
>  

The addition of this include is causing all sorts of compilation errors
inside the PMDs, as many of them seem to be defining their own bools
types. :-(

For safety sake, probably best to have the function return int rather
than bool.

/Bruce