[dpdk-dev,v7,05/14] eal: do not panic on memzone initialization fails

Message ID 20170322201940.24028-6-aconole@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Commit Message

Aaron Conole March 22, 2017, 8:19 p.m. UTC
  When memzone initialization fails, report the error to the calling
application rather than panic().  Without a good way of detaching /
releasing hugepages, at this point the application will have to restart.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c   | 7 +++++--
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index ab34c0d..a71566c 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -569,8 +569,11 @@  rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	if (rte_eal_memory_init() < 0)
 		rte_panic("Cannot init memory\n");
 
-	if (rte_eal_memzone_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init memzone\n");
+	if (rte_eal_memzone_init() < 0) {
+		rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init memzone\n");
+		rte_errno = ENODEV;
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0)
 		rte_panic("Cannot init tail queues for objects\n");
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index a671ed4..5a92b28 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -839,8 +839,11 @@  rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	/* the directories are locked during eal_hugepage_info_init */
 	eal_hugedirs_unlock();
 
-	if (rte_eal_memzone_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init memzone\n");
+	if (rte_eal_memzone_init() < 0) {
+		rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init memzone\n");
+		rte_errno = ENODEV;
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (rte_eal_tailqs_init() < 0)
 		rte_panic("Cannot init tail queues for objects\n");