[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] eal: introduce oops handling API

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Tue Aug 17 05:53:45 CEST 2021


On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:57:18 +0530
<jerinj at marvell.com> wrote:

> From: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
> 
> Introducing oops handling API with following specification
> and enable stub implementation for Linux and FreeBSD.
> 
> On rte_eal_init() invocation, the EAL library installs the
> oops handler for the essential signals.
> The rte_oops_signals_enabled() API provides the list
> of signals the library installed by the EAL.

This is a big change, and many applications already handle these
signals themselves. Therefore adding this needs to be opt-in
and not enabled by default.


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