eal: do not panic on interrupt thread init

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

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c
index 92a19cb..5bb833e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_interrupts.c
@@ -898,13 +898,16 @@ rte_eal_intr_init(void)
         * create a pipe which will be waited by epoll and notified to
         * rebuild the wait list of epoll.
         */
-       if (pipe(intr_pipe.pipefd) < 0)
+       if (pipe(intr_pipe.pipefd) < 0) {
+               rte_errno = errno;
                return -1;
+       }
 
        /* create the host thread to wait/handle the interrupt */
        ret = pthread_create(&intr_thread, NULL,
                        eal_intr_thread_main, NULL);
        if (ret != 0) {
+               rte_errno = ret;
                RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
                        "Failed to create thread for interrupt handling\n");
        } else {