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[dpdk-dev,14/25] eal: do not panic on tailq init

Message ID 1485529023-5486-15-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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ci/checkpatch warning coding style issues
ci/Intel compilation fail Compilation issues

Commit Message

Aaron Conole Jan. 27, 2017, 2:56 p.m. UTC 
  There are some theoretical racy conditions in the system that _could_
cause early tailq init to fail;  however, no need to panic the
application.  While it can't continue using DPDK, it could make better
alerts to the user.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c | 4 ++--
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c         | 7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Stephen Hemminger Jan. 27, 2017, 4:30 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:56:52 -0500
Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> wrote:

> +			/* no need to TAILQ_REMOVE, we are going to disallow re-attemtps
> +			 * for rte_eal_init().  */

Please put multi-line comments in form:
             /*
              * this is a long comment
              * because there really is lots to say
              */

In many cases, having shorter comment is the best way to handle these.
Often developer writes long comment for themselves because what ever problem
they saw was urgent. Then comment becomes irrelevant later.

             /* TAILQ_REMOVE not needed, error is already fatal */
Aaron Conole Jan. 30, 2017, 4:51 p.m. UTC | #2 
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> writes:

> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:56:52 -0500
> Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> + /* no need to TAILQ_REMOVE, we are going to disallow re-attemtps
>> +			 * for rte_eal_init().  */
>
> Please put multi-line comments in form:
>              /*
>               * this is a long comment
>               * because there really is lots to say
>               */

Okay, will do.

> In many cases, having shorter comment is the best way to handle these.
> Often developer writes long comment for themselves because what ever problem
> they saw was urgent. Then comment becomes irrelevant later.
>
>              /* TAILQ_REMOVE not needed, error is already fatal */

I'll fold this in.

Thanks for the review!
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Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c
index bb08ec8..b856ec9 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c
@@ -188,8 +188,8 @@  rte_eal_tailqs_init(void)
 		if (t->head == NULL) {
 			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
 				"Cannot initialize tailq: %s\n", t->name);
-			/* no need to TAILQ_REMOVE, we are going to panic in
-			 * rte_eal_init() */
+			/* no need to TAILQ_REMOVE, we are going to disallow re-attemtps
+			 * for rte_eal_init().  */
 			goto fail;
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index d20ac37..b16313c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -854,8 +854,11 @@  rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init tail queues for objects\n");
+	if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot init tail queues for objects\n");
+		errno = ENOTSUP;
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0)
 		rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");