[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 10/26] eal: Do not panic on log failures

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Mon Feb 27 17:17:55 CET 2017


When log initialization fails, it's generally because the fopencookie
failed.  While this is rare in practice, it could happen, and it is
likely because of memory pressure.  So, flag the error, and allow the
user to retry.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 4b6c7b8..46bbaa7 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -825,8 +825,12 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	rte_config_init();
 
-	if (rte_eal_log_init(logid, internal_config.syslog_facility) < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init logs\n");
+	if (rte_eal_log_init(logid, internal_config.syslog_facility) < 0) {
+		rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init logging.");
+		rte_errno = ENOMEM;
+		rte_atomic32_clear(&run_once);
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (rte_eal_pci_init() < 0)
 		rte_panic("Cannot init PCI\n");
-- 
2.9.3



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