On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 2:21 PM Harman Kalra <hka...@marvell.com> wrote:
>
> Segmentation fault has been observed while running procinfo
> with reset options i.e. --stats-reset and --xstats-reset.
> Reason is procinfo runs as a secondary process and tries to
> hold a lock which is part of struct mdev, which was not
> allocated as part of shared mememory.
s/mememory/memory
please change the subject to "common/octeontx2"
>
> Fixes: 5ca59711f771 ("common/octeontx2: add mailbox base support infra")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Harman Kalra <hka...@marvell.com>
> ---
> drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_mbox.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_mbox.c
> b/drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_mbox.c
> index 2b7810929..6df1e8ea6 100644
> --- a/drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_mbox.c
> +++ b/drivers/common/octeontx2/otx2_mbox.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>
> #include <rte_atomic.h>
> #include <rte_cycles.h>
> +#include <rte_malloc.h>
>
> #include "otx2_mbox.h"
> #include "otx2_dev.h"
> @@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ otx2_mbox_fini(struct otx2_mbox *mbox)
> {
> mbox->reg_base = 0;
> mbox->hwbase = 0;
> - free(mbox->dev);
> + rte_free(mbox->dev);
> mbox->dev = NULL;
> }
>
> @@ -128,7 +129,9 @@ otx2_mbox_init(struct otx2_mbox *mbox, uintptr_t hwbase,
> uintptr_t reg_base,
> return -ENODEV;
> }
>
> - mbox->dev = malloc(ndevs * sizeof(struct otx2_mbox_dev));
> + mbox->dev = rte_zmalloc("mbox dev",
> + ndevs * sizeof(struct otx2_mbox_dev),
> + OTX2_ALIGN);
> if (!mbox->dev) {
> otx2_mbox_fini(mbox);
> return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.18.0
>
