The affinity of a control thread is set after it has been launched. If
setting the affinity fails, pthread_cancel is called followed by a call
to pthread_join, which can hang forever if the thread's start routine
doesn't call a pthread cancellation point.
This patch modifies the logic so that the control thread exits
gracefully if the affinity cannot be set successfully and removes the
call to pthread_cancel.
Fixes: 6383d2642b62 ("eal: set name when creating a control thread")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Luc Pelletier <lucp.at.work@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
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