Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] eal/mp: remove rte_panic and profanity

["Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>]

On 26-Oct-18 9:41 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 26/10/2018 16:55, Anatoly Burakov:
>> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
>> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
>> +	/*
>> +	 * set the alarm before sending message. there are two possible error
>> +	 * scenarios to consider here:
>> +	 *
>> +	 * - if the alarm set fails, we free the memory right there
>> +	 * - if the alarm set succeeds but sending message fails, then the alarm
>> +	 *   will trigger and clean up the memory
>> +	 *
>> +	 * Even if the alarm triggers too early (i.e. immediately), we're still
>> +	 * holding the lock to pending requests queue, so the interrupt thread
>> +	 * will just spin until we release the lock, and either release the
>> +	 * memory, or doesn't find any pending requests in the queue because we
>> +	 * never added any due to send message failure.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (rte_eal_alarm_set(ts->tv_sec * 1000000 + ts->tv_nsec / 1000,
>> +			      async_reply_handle, pending_req) < 0) {
>> +		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Fail to set alarm for request %s:%s\n",
>> +			dst, req->name);
>> +		goto fail;
>> +	}
> 
> ret variable is not set and not initialized.
> 

Oh, right. Apologies. Will send a v2.

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Thanks,
Anatoly