[dpdk-dev] [RFC 08/23] eal: do not panic on memzone initialization fails

[Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>]

When memzone initialization fails, report the error to the calling
application rather than panic().

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 909f6b7..31d3bba 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -828,8 +828,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	/* the directories are locked during eal_hugepage_info_init */
 	eal_hugedirs_unlock();
 
-	if (rte_eal_memzone_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init memzone\n");
+	if (rte_eal_memzone_init() < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot init memzone\n");
+		errno = ENODEV;
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0)
 		rte_panic("Cannot init tail queues for objects\n");
-- 
2.7.4