eal: do not panic on memzone init failure

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 <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index ab34c0d..a71566c 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -569,8 +569,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
        if (rte_eal_memory_init() < 0)
                rte_panic("Cannot init memory\n");
 
-       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");

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index a671ed4..5a92b28 100644 (file)
--- 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");