From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Conole Subject: [PATCH v2 14/25] eal: do not panic on tailq init Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 13:51:31 -0500 Message-ID: <20170208185142.28678-15-aconole@redhat.com> References: <20170208185142.28678-1-aconole@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Bruce Richardson To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2EC282 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2017 19:51:51 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20170208185142.28678-1-aconole@redhat.com> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" There are some theoretical racy conditions in the system that _could_ cause early tailq init to fail; however, no need to panic the application. While it can't continue using DPDK, it could make better alerts to the user. Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole --- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c | 3 +-- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c index bb08ec8..4f69828 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_tailqs.c @@ -188,8 +188,7 @@ rte_eal_tailqs_init(void) if (t->head == NULL) { RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot initialize tailq: %s\n", t->name); - /* no need to TAILQ_REMOVE, we are going to panic in - * rte_eal_init() */ + /* TAILQ_REMOVE not needed, error is already fatal */ goto fail; } } diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c index f5f0ad4..adcebc8 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -857,8 +857,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) return -1; } - if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0) - rte_panic("Cannot init tail queues for objects\n"); + if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0) { + RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot init tail queues for objects\n"); + rte_errno = EFAULT; + return -1; + } if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0) rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n"); -- 2.9.3