From: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 10:37:50 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: app/proc_info: check for primary process
X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=af2c6fffe6bdea4dd55c5faf731fbaec27275d0b;p=dpdk.git

app/proc_info: check for primary process

Add a check to see if the primary process is running and exit gracefully
if it is not.

Suggested-by: Patrick Kutch <patrick.g.kutch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/app/proc_info/main.c b/app/proc_info/main.c
index 6dc0bbb8bd..8246fb2aec 100644
--- a/app/proc_info/main.c
+++ b/app/proc_info/main.c
@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	argc -= ret;
 	argv += (ret - 3);
 
+	if (!rte_eal_primary_proc_alive(NULL))
+		rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "No primary DPDK process is running.\n");
+
 	/* parse app arguments */
 	ret = proc_info_parse_args(argc, argv);
 	if (ret < 0)