From patchwork Tue Feb 28 18:52:57 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Aaron Conole X-Patchwork-Id: 20950 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67868F8C0; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:54:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958452C56 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:53:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18002C04B937; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:53:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-25-97.bos.redhat.com ([10.18.25.172]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v1SIrHWK019326; Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:53:22 -0500 From: Aaron Conole To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Bruce Richardson Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:52:57 -0500 Message-Id: <20170228185315.12546-9-aconole@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20170228185315.12546-1-aconole@redhat.com> References: <20170227161811.12309-1-aconole@redhat.com> <20170228185315.12546-1-aconole@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.24 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:53:23 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 08/26] eal: do not panic on memzone initialization fails X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 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 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 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");