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[dpdk-dev,v6,18/26] eal: do not panic on interrupt thread init

Message ID 20170228185315.12546-19-aconole@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Aaron Conole Feb. 28, 2017, 6:53 p.m. UTC 
  When initializing the interrupt thread, there are a number of possible
reasons for failure - some of which are correctable by the application.
Do not panic() needlessly, and give the application a change to reflect
this information to the user.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 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 73a7d38..d174ad4 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -894,8 +894,10 @@  rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 		rte_config.master_lcore, (int)thread_id, cpuset,
 		ret == 0 ? "" : "...");
 
-	if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
+	if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0) {
+		rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (rte_bus_scan())
 		rte_panic("Cannot scan the buses for devices\n");