On 29-Jan-21 3:40 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
29/01/2021 16:29, Anatoly Burakov:
Previous fix used `rte_malloc_heap_socket_is_external()` to check if the
heap was an external heap. However, that API is thread-safe, and when
we're inside the allocation process, we're already write-locked, so
calling `rte_malloc_heap_socket_is_external()` will result in a
deadlock followed by a timeout.

Fix it by replacing the API call with a check against maximum number of
NUMA nodes, because external heaps always have higher socket ID's.

Is there some unit tests for such thing?

I couldn't reproduce this using autotests, but Jim has SPDK tests which triggered this error.

Since this is dependent upon secondary process, any test would necessarily have to be manual here, i think.



Fixes: 7ac31e82bc8f ("mem: improve parameter checking on memory hotplug")

Reported-by: Jim Harris <james.r.har...@intel.com>


No need of blank line here.

Need to update my scripts :P


Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com>
---
  lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_mp.c | 9 +++++++--
  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_mp.c 
b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_mp.c
index 0b19d4d5fb..b1f7f7824b 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_mp.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_mp.c
-       /* for allocations, we must only use internal heaps */
-       if (rte_malloc_heap_socket_is_external(heap->socket_id)) {
+       /*
+        * for allocations, we must only use internal heaps, but since the
+        * rte_malloc_heap_socket_is_external() is thread-safe and we're already
+        * read-locked, we'll have to take advantage of the fac that internal

fac -> fact?


Yes.

+        * socket ID's are always lower than RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES.
+        */
+       if (heap->socket_id >= RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES) {






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Thanks,
Anatoly

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