[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 09/14] eal: do not panic on interrupt thread init

[Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>]

There could be some confusion as to why the call failed - this change
will always reflect the value of the error in rte_error.

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 <aconole@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c              | 6 ++++--
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c            | 6 ++++--
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c | 5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index 00d607b..e9a5d93 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -593,8 +593,10 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	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_eal_timer_init() < 0) {
 		rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init HPET or TSC timers\n");
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 9fb5421..ecf567a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -890,8 +890,10 @@ 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");
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c
index 92a19cb..5bb833e 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c
@@ -898,13 +898,16 @@ rte_eal_intr_init(void)
 	 * create a pipe which will be waited by epoll and notified to
 	 * rebuild the wait list of epoll.
 	 */
-	if (pipe(intr_pipe.pipefd) < 0)
+	if (pipe(intr_pipe.pipefd) < 0) {
+		rte_errno = errno;
 		return -1;
+	}
 
 	/* create the host thread to wait/handle the interrupt */
 	ret = pthread_create(&intr_thread, NULL,
 			eal_intr_thread_main, NULL);
 	if (ret != 0) {
+		rte_errno = ret;
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
 			"Failed to create thread for interrupt handling\n");
 	} else {
-- 
2.9.3