When primary process is booted with --file-prefix option, the API,
rte_eal_primary_proc_alive(), uses a wrong config file path to
check if primary process is alive.
Fix it by calling helper function to get config file path.
Fixes: dd3e00138d74 ("eal: check if primary process is alive")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
This patch adds a new function to the EAL API:
int rte_eal_primary_proc_alive(const char *path);
The function indicates if a primary process is alive right now.
This functionality is implemented by testing for a write-
lock on the config file, and the function tests for a lock.
The use case for this functionality is that a secondary
process can wait until a primary process starts by polling
the function and waiting. When the primary is running, the
secondary continues to poll to detect if the primary process
has quit unexpectedly, the secondary process can detect this.
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>
