From patchwork Sat Feb 25 16:02:45 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Aaron Conole X-Patchwork-Id: 20762 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FA2BD2A; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 17:04:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0942BFF for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 17:03:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx16.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E40F8046B; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 16:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-25-97.bos.redhat.com (unknown [10.10.120.10]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0ABB2D655; Sat, 25 Feb 2017 16:03:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Aaron Conole To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Bruce Richardson Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:02:45 -0500 Message-Id: <20170225160309.31270-3-aconole@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170225160309.31270-1-aconole@redhat.com> References: <20170209142953.8167-1-aconole@redhat.com> <20170225160309.31270-1-aconole@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 on 10.5.11.28 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.28]); Sat, 25 Feb 2017 16:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 02/26] eal: return error instead of panic for cpu init X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 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 --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c index bf6b818..5023d0d 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -740,6 +740,12 @@ static int rte_eal_vfio_setup(void) } #endif +static void rte_eal_init_alert(const char *msg) +{ + fprintf(stderr, "EAL: FATAL: %s\n", msg); + RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s\n", msg); +} + /* Launch threads, called at application init(). */ int rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) @@ -767,8 +773,11 @@ 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_eal_init_alert("Cannot detect lcores."); + rte_errno = ENOTSUP; + return -1; + } fctret = eal_parse_args(argc, argv); if (fctret < 0)