Hi Honnappa, Sorry about the delayed reply. The build error trace is below, the build command used was: CC=gcc meson --optimization=1 --werror build1; ninja -C build1 I am not sure how I could fix this issue without initialising zcd.
[2339/2407] Compiling C object app/test/dpdk-test.p/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c.o FAILED: app/test/dpdk-test.p/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c.o gcc -Iapp/test/dpdk-test.p -Iapp/test -I../app/test -Ilib/librte_acl -I../lib/librte_acl -I. -I.. -Iconfig -I../config -Ilib/librte_eal/include -I../lib/librte_eal/include -Ilib/librte_eal/linux/include -I../lib/librte_eal/linux/include -Ilib/librte_eal/x86/include -I../lib/librte_eal/x86/include -Ilib/librte_eal/common -I../lib/librte_eal/common -Ilib/librte_eal -I../lib/librte_eal -Ilib/librte_kvargs -I../lib/librte_kvargs -Ilib/librte_metrics -I../lib/librte_metrics -Ilib/librte_telemetry -I../lib/librte_telemetry -Idrivers/bus/pci -I../drivers/bus/pci -I../drivers/bus/pci/linux -Ilib/librte_pci -I../lib/librte_pci -Idrivers/bus/vdev -I../drivers/bus/vdev -Ilib/librte_bitratestats -I../lib/librte_bitratestats -Ilib/librte_ethdev -I../lib/librte_ethdev -Ilib/librte_net -I../lib/librte_net -Ilib/librte_mbuf -I../lib/librte_mbuf -Ilib/librte_mempool -I../lib/librte_mempool -Ilib/librte_ring -I../lib/librte_ring -Ilib/librte_meter -I../lib/librte_meter -Ilib/librte_bpf -I../lib/librte_bpf -Ilib/librte_cfgfile -I../lib/librte_cfgfile -Ilib/librte_cmdline -I../lib/librte_cmdline -Ilib/librte_cryptodev -I../lib/librte_cryptodev -Ilib/librte_distributor -I../lib/librte_distributor -Ilib/librte_efd -I../lib/librte_efd -Ilib/librte_hash -I../lib/librte_hash -Ilib/librte_rcu -I../lib/librte_rcu -Ilib/librte_eventdev -I../lib/librte_eventdev -Ilib/librte_timer -I../lib/librte_timer -Ilib/librte_fib -I../lib/librte_fib -Ilib/librte_rib -I../lib/librte_rib -Ilib/librte_flow_classify -I../lib/librte_flow_classify -Ilib/librte_table -I../lib/librte_table -Ilib/librte_port -I../lib/librte_port -Ilib/librte_sched -I../lib/librte_sched -Ilib/librte_ip_frag -I../lib/librte_ip_frag -Ilib/librte_kni -I../lib/librte_kni -Ilib/librte_lpm -I../lib/librte_lpm -Ilib/librte_graph -I../lib/librte_graph -Ilib/librte_ipsec -I../lib/librte_ipsec -Ilib/librte_security -I../lib/librte_security -Ilib/librte_latencystats -I../lib/librte_latencystats -Ilib/librte_member -I../lib/librte_member -Ilib/librte_node -I../lib/librte_node -Ilib/librte_pipeline -I../lib/librte_pipeline -Ilib/librte_rawdev -I../lib/librte_rawdev -Ilib/librte_reorder -I../lib/librte_reorder -Ilib/librte_stack -I../lib/librte_stack -Idrivers/mempool/ring -I../drivers/mempool/ring -Idrivers/mempool/stack -I../drivers/mempool/stack -Idrivers/event/skeleton -I../drivers/event/skeleton -Idrivers/net/bonding -I../drivers/net/bonding -Idrivers/net/ring -I../drivers/net/ring -Ilib/librte_power -I../lib/librte_power -Ilib/librte_pdump -I../lib/librte_pdump -Idrivers/crypto/scheduler -I../drivers/crypto/scheduler -fdiagnostics-color=always -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wall -Winvalid-pch -Werror -O1 -include rte_config.h -Wextra -Wcast-qual -Wdeprecated -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wno-packed-not-aligned -Wno-missing-field-initializers -march=native -mno-avx512f -DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API -Wno-format-truncation -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -DALLOW_INTERNAL_API -MD -MQ app/test/dpdk-test.p/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c.o -MF app/test/dpdk-test.p/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c.o.d -o app/test/dpdk-test.p/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c.o -c ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c In file included from ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:5: ../app/test/test_ring_stress_impl.h: In function 'test_worker': ../app/test/test_ring.h:82:3: error: 'zcd.n1' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] test_ring_mem_copy(zcd->ptr2, src, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ esize, num - zcd->n1); ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:32:26: note: 'zcd.n1' was declared here struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd; ^~~ In file included from ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:5: ../app/test/test_ring.h:67:2: error: '*((void *)&zcd+8)' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] memcpy(dst, src, sz); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:32:26: note: '*((void *)&zcd+8)' was declared here struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd; ^~~ In file included from ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:5: ../app/test/test_ring.h:67:2: error: 'zcd' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] memcpy(dst, src, sz); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:32:26: note: 'zcd' was declared here struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd; ^~~ In file included from ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:5: ../app/test/test_ring.h:63:11: error: 'zcd.n1' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] sz = num * sizeof(void *); ~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:14:26: note: 'zcd.n1' was declared here struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd; ^~~ In file included from ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:5: ../app/test/test_ring.h:67:2: error: '*((void *)&zcd+8)' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] memcpy(dst, src, sz); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:14:26: note: '*((void *)&zcd+8)' was declared here struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd; ^~~ In file included from ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:5: ../app/test/test_ring.h:67:2: error: 'zcd' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] memcpy(dst, src, sz); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c:14:26: note: 'zcd' was declared here struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd; ^~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors [2340/2407] Compiling C object drivers/libtmp_...ontx2.a.p/event_octeontx2_otx2_worker_dual.c.o ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. Thanks, Conor. > From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com> > Sent: Wednesday 4 November 2020 18:48 > To: Walsh, Conor <conor.wa...@intel.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin > <konstantin.anan...@intel.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Chen, LingliX <linglix.c...@intel.com>; nd > <n...@arm.com>; Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com>; > nd <n...@arm.com> > Subject: RE: [PATCH v1] app/test: zcd needs to be initialised to fix gcc > compile > error > > Hi Conor, > Thanks for the patch. > > <snip> > > > > > When DPDK is compiled with gcc < 9 with the optimization level set to 1 gcc > > sees zcd in test_ring.h as possibly being uninitialised. To correct this > > error > zcd > > has been initialised to {0} in test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c. > > > > Signed-off-by: Conor Walsh <conor.wa...@intel.com> > > --- > > app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c > > b/app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c > > index 7e0bd511a7..ba0acf237c 100644 > > --- a/app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c > > +++ b/app/test/test_ring_mt_peek_stress_zc.c > > @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ _st_ring_dequeue_bulk(struct rte_ring *r, void **obj, > > uint32_t n, > > uint32_t *avail) > > { > > uint32_t m; > > - struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd; > > + struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd = {0}; > I faced similar problems when I created this test case. I refrained from doing > this initialization as it might mask the problems in the library. Is it > possible to > identify which path in the library is actually resulting in this error? I > would > prefer to fix that instead. > > > > > m = rte_ring_dequeue_zc_bulk_start(r, n, &zcd, avail); > > n = (m == n) ? n : 0; > > @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ _st_ring_enqueue_bulk(struct rte_ring *r, void * > const > > *obj, uint32_t n, > > uint32_t *free) > > { > > uint32_t m; > > - struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd; > > + struct rte_ring_zc_data zcd = {0}; > > > > m = rte_ring_enqueue_zc_bulk_start(r, n, &zcd, free); > > n = (m == n) ? n : 0; > > -- > > 2.25.1