vlib: add graceful termination with status
This commit allows a non-VPP thread to request VPP to gracefully
shutdown and return a specific process status value.
Type: improvement
Change-Id: I9bf52b789e7ee28eb272630eaea495fd94349f79
Signed-off-by: Pierre Pfister <ppfister@cisco.com>
diff --git a/src/vlib/main.h b/src/vlib/main.h
index c655560..a16f603 100644
--- a/src/vlib/main.h
+++ b/src/vlib/main.h
@@ -143,6 +143,8 @@
u32 main_loop_exit_set;
/* Set e.g. in the SIGTERM signal handler, checked in a safe place... */
volatile u32 main_loop_exit_now;
+ /* Exit status that will be returned by the process upon exit. */
+ volatile int main_loop_exit_status;
clib_longjmp_t main_loop_exit;
#define VLIB_MAIN_LOOP_EXIT_NONE 0
#define VLIB_MAIN_LOOP_EXIT_PANIC 1
@@ -389,6 +391,8 @@
vlib_panic_with_error (vm, 0);
}
+/* Asynchronously requests exit with the given status. */
+void vlib_exit_with_status (vlib_main_t *vm, int status);
always_inline f64
vlib_internal_node_vector_rate (vlib_main_t * vm)