[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 08/14] eal: do not panic on timer init failure

[Aaron Conole]

After code inspection, there is no way for eal_timer_init() to fail.  It
simply returns 0 in all cases.  As such, this test could either go-away
or stay here as 'future-proofing'.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c   | 7 +++++--
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index b893dc1..00d607b 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -596,8 +596,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
        if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0)
                rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
 
-       if (rte_eal_timer_init() < 0)
-               rte_panic("Cannot init HPET or TSC timers\n");
+       if (rte_eal_timer_init() < 0) {
+               rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init HPET or TSC timers\n");
+               rte_errno = ENOTSUP;
+               return -1;
+       }
 
        if (rte_eal_pci_init() < 0)
                rte_panic("Cannot init PCI\n");
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c 
b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index bfb8260..9fb5421 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -871,8 +871,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
                return -1;
        }
 
-       if (rte_eal_timer_init() < 0)
-               rte_panic("Cannot init HPET or TSC timers\n");
+       if (rte_eal_timer_init() < 0) {
+               rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init HPET or TSC timers\n");
+               rte_errno = ENOTSUP;
+               return -1;
+       }
 
        eal_check_mem_on_local_socket();
 
-- 
2.9.3