[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 03/26] eal: No panic on hugepages info init

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Feb 28 15:25:04 CET 2017


On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 11:17:48AM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
> When attempting to scan hugepages, signal to the eal.c that an error has
> occurred, rather than performing a panic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_hugepage_info.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_hugepage_info.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_hugepage_info.c
> index 18858e2..4d47eaf 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_hugepage_info.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_hugepage_info.c
> @@ -283,9 +283,11 @@ eal_hugepage_info_init(void)
>  	struct dirent *dirent;
>  
>  	dir = opendir(sys_dir_path);
> -	if (dir == NULL)
> -		rte_panic("Cannot open directory %s to read system hugepage "
> +	if (dir == NULL) {
> +		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot open directory %s to read system hugepage "
>  			  "info\n", sys_dir_path);
> +		return -1;
> +	}

Minor nit.
The error message should go on a line on its own, without any breaks to
make it easy to "grep". This should also eliminate the checkpatch
complaint about it being too long.

/Bruce



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