[dpdk-dev] [RFC 04/23] eal: do not panic on failed hugepage query

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Fri Dec 30 16:26:01 CET 2016


If we fail to acquire hugepage information, simply signal an error to
the application.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at 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 330f416..ff70107 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -779,8 +779,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	if (internal_config.no_hugetlbfs == 0 &&
 			internal_config.process_type != RTE_PROC_SECONDARY &&
 			internal_config.xen_dom0_support == 0 &&
-			eal_hugepage_info_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot get hugepage information\n");
+			eal_hugepage_info_init() < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot get hugepage information\n");
+		errno = EACCES;
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (internal_config.memory == 0 && internal_config.force_sockets == 0) {
 		if (internal_config.no_hugetlbfs)
-- 
2.7.4



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