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[dpdk-dev,v2,02/25] eal: return error instead of panic for cpu init

Message ID 20170208185142.28678-3-aconole@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
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ci/Intel compilation fail Compilation issues

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Aaron Conole Feb. 8, 2017, 6:51 p.m. UTC 
  There may be no way to gracefully recover, but the application
should be notified that a failure happened, rather than completely
aborting.  This allows the user to proceed with a "slow-path" type
solution.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index bf6b818..d8e00f5 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -767,8 +767,11 @@  rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	/* set log level as early as possible */
 	rte_set_log_level(internal_config.log_level);
 
-	if (rte_eal_cpu_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot detect lcores\n");
+	if (rte_eal_cpu_init() < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot detect lcores\n");
+		rte_errno = ENOTSUP;
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	fctret = eal_parse_args(argc, argv);
 	if (fctret < 0)