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From: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
To: Nitin Katiyar <nitin.katiyar@ericsson.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: DPDK init doesn't fail even if device probe fails.
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 09:57:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7t1rx6btjm.fsf@dhcp-25.97.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1566934217-23824-2-git-send-email-nitin.katiyar@ericsson.com> (Nitin Katiyar's message of "Wed, 28 Aug 2019 01:00:17 +0530")

Nitin Katiyar <nitin.katiyar@ericsson.com> writes:

> rte_bus_probe() doesn't return error. As a result rte_eal_init()
> doesn't catch this error and thus making dpdk initialization
> successful despite probe failing for devices.
>
> This patch returns error if probe fails for any of device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nitin Katiyar <nitin.katiyar@ericsson.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_bus.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_bus.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_bus.c
> index baa5b53..1721179 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_bus.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_bus.c
> @@ -70,16 +70,20 @@
>  		}
>  
>  		ret = bus->probe();
> -		if (ret)
> +		if (ret) {
>  			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Bus (%s) probe failed.\n",
>  				bus->name);
> +			return ret;
> +		}

If we return an error here, won't this fail to probe vbus?  In fact,
this will disrupt all subsequent bus probes, yes?

Why should a single bus problem be a 'cannot init' level failure?

>  	}
>  
>  	if (vbus) {
>  		ret = vbus->probe();
> -		if (ret)
> +		if (ret) {
>  			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Bus (%s) probe failed.\n",
>  				vbus->name);
> +			return ret;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	return 0;

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-27 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-27 19:30 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] bus/pci: Fail rte_pci_probe if probing all whitelisted devices fail Nitin Katiyar
2019-08-27 19:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: DPDK init doesn't fail even if device probe fails Nitin Katiyar
2019-08-27 13:57   ` Aaron Conole [this message]
2019-08-27 20:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] bus/pci: Fail rte_pci_probe if probing all whitelisted devices fail Stephen Hemminger
2019-08-29  3:47   ` Nitin Katiyar
2019-08-29 15:33     ` Stephen Hemminger

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