> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:13
> To: David Marchand <[email protected]>; Wang, Haiyue
> <[email protected]>
> Cc: Neil Horman <[email protected]>; dev <[email protected]>; Burakov, Anatoly
> <[email protected]>; Vamsi Attunuru <[email protected]>; Jerin
> Jacob Kollanukkaran
> <[email protected]>; Yigit, Ferruh <[email protected]>; Richardson,
> Bruce
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/2] support for VFIO-PCI VF token interface
>
> 21/04/2020 03:38, Wang, Haiyue:
> > From: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
> > > 20/04/2020 19:37, Wang, Haiyue:
> > > > From: Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]>
> > > > > 20/04/2020 19:02, Wang, Haiyue:
> > > > > > From: David Marchand <[email protected]>
> > > > > > > I had a look at the CI, I can see we are still missing bits to
> > > > > > > handle
> > > > > > > the ABI failure on rte_vfio_setup_device.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, not handle it now.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If 'rte_vfio_setup_device' can be internal, not official DPDK API,
> > > > > > then __rte_internal
> > > > > > is the best way to handle ABI issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > Please could you help finishing integration of __rte_internal?
> > > >
> > > > I thought it should be Neil ? "Yes, I'll get back to this today" ;-)
> > > > http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/cajfav8ydlkv0afehqbh6kea3box0yxb3n0mngtmd4s9bmsg...@mail.gmail.com/
> > >
> > > It did not happen after several months.
> > > If you want to unblock your patches, I think it is safer to finish
> > > yourself.
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately, this __rte_internal will still make the ci fail to run when
> > move the function
> > to INTERNAL session:
> [...]
> > +INTERNAL {
> > + global:
> > +
> > + # added in 20.05
> > + rte_vfio_setup_device;
> > +};
>
> Why do you need to move the symbol explicitly in .map?
> The tool should ignore symbols moving to internal, as an exception until
> 20.11.
>
If not move the symbol explicitly in .map, another kind of error happened.
./devtools/check-abi.sh old_abi new_abi
Functions changes summary: 0 Removed, 1 Changed, 0 Added function
Variables changes summary: 0 Removed, 0 Changed, 0 Added variable
1 function with some indirect sub-type change:
[C] 'function int rte_vfio_setup_device(const char*, const char*, int*,
vfio_device_info*)' at eal_vfio.c:704:1 has some indirect sub-type changes:
parameter 5 of type 'unsigned char*' was added
Error: ABI issue reported for 'abidiff --suppr ./devtools/libabigail.abignore
--no-added-syms --headers-dir1 old_abi/include --headers-dir2 new_abi/include
old_abi/dump/librte_eal.dump new_abi/dump/librte_eal.dump'
