eal: do not panic on memzone init failure

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / linuxapp / eal / eal.c

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");