[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/7] Move EAL common functions
Ravi Kerur
rkerur at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 20:23:12 CET 2014
Thanks Neil for reviews. Inline <rk>
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:33:12AM -0500, Ravi Kerur wrote:
> > eal_debug.c has no difference between Linux and BSD, move
> > into common directory.
> > Rename eal_debug.c to eal_common_debug.c
> > Makefile changes to reflect file move and name change.
> > Fix checkpatch warnings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ravi Kerur <rkerur at gmail.com>
> > +
> > +/* not implemented in this environment */
> > +void rte_dump_registers(void)
> > +{
> > +}
> Clearly this function has no use, instead of keeping it around, can you
> please
> remove it until someone works up the gumption to make it do something.
> We're
> just wasting an extra call instruction here so someone doesn't have to
> write a
> prototype in the future. I don't see the value.
>
<rk> This is existing code, I just removed "return" statement as per
checkpatch. Should I make it "inline" and add a comment indicating to
revisit whether to make it inline/no inline when the function is
implemented?
>
> > +/*
> > + * Like rte_panic this terminates the application. However, no
> traceback is
> > + * provided and no core-dump is generated.
> > + */
> > +void
> > +rte_exit(int exit_code, const char *format, ...)
> > +{
> > + va_list ap;
> > +
> > + /* disable history */
> > + rte_log_set_history(0);
> > +
> > + if (exit_code != 0)
> > + RTE_LOG(CRIT, EAL, "Error - exiting with code: %d\n"
> > + " Cause: ", exit_code);
> > +
> > + va_start(ap, format);
> > + rte_vlog(RTE_LOG_CRIT, RTE_LOGTYPE_EAL, format, ap);
> > + va_end(ap);
> > +
> > +#ifndef RTE_EAL_ALWAYS_PANIC_ON_ERROR
> > + exit(exit_code);
> > +#else
> > + rte_dump_stack();
> > + rte_dump_registers();
> > + abort();
> > +#endif
> This doesn't match with the commentary above. If rte_exit isn't meant to
> provide a traceback, it shouldn't do so. If an application wants that to
> happen, then they need to use rte_panic.
>
> <rk> This is again existing code. I can change the comment which matches
the function, will it work?
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