[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 00/10] eal: replace calls to rte_panic and refrain from new instances

[Thomas Monjalon]

26/04/2018 08:20, Arnon Warshavsky:
> The purpose of this patch series is to cleanup the library code
> from paths that end up aborting the process,
> and move to checking error values, in order to allow the running process
> perform an orderly teardown or other mitigation of the event.
> 
> This patch modifies the majority of rte_panic calls
> under lib and drivers, and replaces them with a log message
> and an error return code according to context,
> that can be propagated up the call stack.
> 
> - Focus was given to the dpdk initialization path
> - Some of the panic calls within drivers were left in place where
>   the call is from within an interrupt or calls that are
>   on the data path,where there is no simple applicative
>   route to propagate the error to temination.
>   These should be handled by the driver maintainers..
> - local void functions with no api were changed to retrun a value
>   where needed
> - No change took place in example and test files
> - No change took place for debug assertions calling panic
> - A new function was added to devtools/checkpatches.sh
>   in order to prevent new additions of calls to rte_panic
>   under lib and drivers.
> 
> Keep calm and don't panic

What is the status of this patchset?
It seems not ready for RC1 (today).
I don't want to push it in RC2 because it changes too many things.
So it's today or wait for 18.08. What do you think?

The last patch for check tooling can be separated and pushed at anytime.