[dpdk-stable] patch 'examples/performance-thread: check thread creation' has been queued to LTS release 16.11.4

[luca.boccassi at gmail.com]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to LTS release 16.11.4

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 11/01/17. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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>From c6d6f502a67367f47cd5dd9ab7fe0c10103c1747 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacek Piasecki <jacekx.piasecki at intel.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:44:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] examples/performance-thread: check thread creation

[ upstream commit 842ee032e41e678568ffbce29172b346dc09c82b ]

There was a call for thread create function without result check.
Added result check and message printout after failure.

Coverity issue: 143441
Fixes: 433ba6228f9a ("examples/performance-thread: add pthread_shim app")

Signed-off-by: Jacek Piasecki <jacekx.piasecki at intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Jastrzebski <michalx.k.jastrzebski at intel.com>
---
 examples/performance-thread/pthread_shim/main.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/examples/performance-thread/pthread_shim/main.c b/examples/performance-thread/pthread_shim/main.c
index 850b009d3..febae39be 100644
--- a/examples/performance-thread/pthread_shim/main.c
+++ b/examples/performance-thread/pthread_shim/main.c
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ static void initial_lthread(void *args __attribute__((unused)))
 	pthread_override_set(1);
 
 	uint64_t i;
+	int ret;
 
 	/* initialize mutex for shared counter */
 	print_count = 0;
@@ -187,7 +188,10 @@ static void initial_lthread(void *args __attribute__((unused)))
 		pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(&attr, sizeof(rte_cpuset_t), &cpuset);
 
 		/* create the thread */
-		pthread_create(&tid[i], &attr, helloworld_pthread, (void *) i);
+		ret = pthread_create(&tid[i], &attr,
+				helloworld_pthread, (void *) i);
+		if (ret != 0)
+			rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Cannot create helloworld thread\n");
 	}
 
 	/* wait for 1s to allow threads
-- 
2.11.0