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 A5D2F2E81 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:18:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 169D83A7691; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-25-97.bos.redhat.com (dhcp-25-172.bos.redhat.com [10.18.25.172]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v1RGICJg003061; Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:18:13 -0500 From: Aaron Conole To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Bruce Richardson Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:17:47 -0500 Message-Id: <20170227161811.12309-3-aconole@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170227161811.12309-1-aconole@redhat.com> References: <20170225160309.31270-1-aconole@redhat.com> <20170227161811.12309-1-aconole@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.23 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.29]); Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 02/26] eal: return error instead of panic for cpu 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: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:18:13 -0000 There may be no way to gracefully recover, but the application should be notified that a failure happened, rather than completely aborting. This allows the user to proceed with a "slow-path" type solution. Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c index bf6b818..81692e7 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -740,6 +741,12 @@ static int rte_eal_vfio_setup(void) } #endif +static void rte_eal_init_alert(const char *msg) +{ + fprintf(stderr, "EAL: FATAL: %s\n", msg); + RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s\n", msg); +} + /* Launch threads, called at application init(). */ int rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) @@ -767,8 +774,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) /* set log level as early as possible */ rte_set_log_level(internal_config.log_level); - if (rte_eal_cpu_init() < 0) - rte_panic("Cannot detect lcores\n"); + if (rte_eal_cpu_init() < 0) { + rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot detect lcores."); + rte_errno = ENOTSUP; + return -1; + } fctret = eal_parse_args(argc, argv); if (fctret < 0) -- 2.9.3