From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Conole Subject: [PATCH v6 15/26] eal: do not panic on alarm init Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:53:04 -0500 Message-ID: <20170228185315.12546-16-aconole@redhat.com> References: <20170227161811.12309-1-aconole@redhat.com> <20170228185315.12546-1-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 B4D652B86 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:53:26 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20170228185315.12546-1-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" rte_eal_alarm_init() call uses the linux timerfd framework to create a poll()-able timer using standard posix file operations. This could fail for a few reasons given in the man-pages, but many could be corrected by the user application. No need to panic. Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole Acked-by: Bruce Richardson --- 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 aa10192..7aa6b6e 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -869,8 +869,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) return -1; } - if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0) - rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n"); + if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0) { + rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n"); + /* rte_eal_alarm_init sets rte_errno on failure. */ + return -1; + } if (rte_eal_timer_init() < 0) rte_panic("Cannot init HPET or TSC timers\n"); -- 2.9.3