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[dpdk-dev,RFC,18/23] eal: Do not panic on interrupt thread init

Message ID 1483111580-5397-19-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State RFC, archived
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ci/Intel compilation fail Compilation issues

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Aaron Conole Dec. 30, 2016, 3:26 p.m. UTC 
  When initializing the interrupt thread, there are a number of possible
reasons for failure - some of which are correctable by the application.
Do not panic() needlessly, and give the application a change to reflect
this information to the user.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 4206bca..244dc29 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -881,8 +881,11 @@  rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 		rte_config.master_lcore, (int)thread_id, cpuset,
 		ret == 0 ? "" : "...");
 
-	if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
+	if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
+		errno = rte_errno;
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE(i) {