[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal/thread: fix return codes for rte_ctrl_thread_create()

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 08-Jun-18 1:37 PM, Dariusz Stojaczyk wrote:
> This function returned positive error numbers instead
> of negative ones as desbribed in the doc. What's worse,
> multiple of its callers only check for (rc < 0) to detect
> failure.
> 
> It was incorrectly assumed that pthread_create
> and pthread_setaffinity_np return negative errnos. They
> always returns positive ones, so this patch negates their
> return values before returning.
> 
> Fixes: 9e5afc72c909 ("eal: add function to create control threads")
> Cc: olivier.matz at 6wind.com
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dariusz Stojaczyk <dariuszx.stojaczyk at intel.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

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Thanks,
Anatoly