[PATCH v5 15/26] eal: do not panic on alarm init
From: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Date: 2017-02-27 16:18:21
Subsystem:
library code, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds
rte_eal_alarm_init() call uses the linux timerfd framework to create a poll()-able timer using standard posix file operations. This could fail for a few reasons given in the man-pages, but many could be corrected by the user application. No need to panic. Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com> --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index e0767c0..23811bf 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c@@ -869,8 +869,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) return -1; } - if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0) - rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n"); + if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0) { + RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n"); + /* rte_eal_alarm_init sets rte_errno on failure. */ + return -1; + } if (rte_eal_timer_init() < 0) rte_panic("Cannot init HPET or TSC timers\n");
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2.9.3