On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:43:35AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 12:19:24PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 14/02/2022 11:45, Bruce Richardson:
> > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:22:08AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > 14/02/2022 10:13, Tyler Retzlaff:
> > > > > while the driver api is "internal" we agreed some time ago that
> > > > > drivers
> > > > > could be built external to the dpdk tree. by enabling the meson setup
> > > > > option -Denable_driver_sdk=true.
> > > > >
> > > > > it was agreed that the driver api was internal and would attract no
> > > > > binary compatibility support which was fine. this change has now
> > > > > imposed a further restriction that out of tree drivers have to be
> > > > > authored in C only as non-C++ compatible code will invariably leak
> > > > > into
> > > > > the internal structures.
> > > > >
> > > > > you won't allow us to build C++ drivers in the dpdk tree and it seems
> > > > > now you are preventing building of C++ drivers outside of the tree
> > > > > too.
> > > >
> > > > That's the problem of non-written assumptions, they are unknown or
> > > > forgotten.
> > > > Did we agree to support out-of-tree drivers in C++?
> > > >
> > > > We really need to make things clear and written in documentation.
> > > >
> > > > > could we please re-evaluate this.
> > > >
> > > > Yes we can re-evaluate.
> > > > What is the list of impacted files?
> > > >
> > > Hacking meson files a bit, the list of SDK header files is reported as
> > > below.
> > >
> > > /Bruce
> > >
> > > Message: SDK headers:
> > > Message: ethdev_driver.h
> > > Message: ethdev_pci.h
> > > Message: ethdev_vdev.h
> > > Message: cryptodev_pmd.h
> > > Message: eventdev_pmd.h
> > > Message: eventdev_pmd_pci.h
> > > Message: eventdev_pmd_vdev.h
> > > Message: eventdev_trace.h
> > > Message: event_timer_adapter_pmd.h
> > > Message: rte_dmadev_pmd.h
> > > Message: vdpa_driver.h
> >
> > I see no harm in supporting C++ include of these headers.
> > Any objection?
> >
> > Could we have a test in chkincs for the SDK headers?
> >
> Yes. It may make things a little more complicated, though, as it seems
> these headers also have a tendency to rely on some driver headers -
> specifically bus driver headers.
>
Working on a patch to add these to checks. However, just running a c++
compile does not check for valid 'extern "C"' blocks. Adding the following
to chkincs/meson.build as a basic sanity check throws up a larger list of
files to be looked at.
Diff:
+# check for extern C in files, since this is not detected as an error by the
compiler
+grep = find_program('grep', required: false)
+if grep.found()
+ errlist = run_command([grep, '--files-without-match', '^extern "C"',
dpdk_chkinc_headers],
+ check: true, capture: true).stdout().split()
+ if errlist != []
+ error('Files missing C++ \'extern "C"\' guards:\n- ' + '\n-
'.join(errlist))
+ endif
+endif
+
Output:
../buildtools/chkincs/meson.build:45:8: ERROR: Problem encountered: Files
missing C++ 'extern "C"' guards:
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/telemetry/rte_telemetry.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/include/rte_bitops.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/include/rte_branch_prediction.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/include/rte_compat.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/include/rte_hypervisor.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/include/rte_keepalive.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/include/rte_pci_dev_feature_defs.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/include/rte_pci_dev_features.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/include/rte_time.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/include/rte_trace_point_register.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eal/linux/include/rte_os.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/ethdev/rte_dev_info.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/ethdev/ethdev_pci.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/ethdev/ethdev_vdev.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/metrics/rte_metrics_telemetry.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/acl/rte_acl_osdep.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/bpf/bpf_def.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/compressdev/rte_compressdev_internal.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/cryptodev/cryptodev_pmd.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eventdev/rte_event_ring.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eventdev/eventdev_pmd.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eventdev/eventdev_pmd_pci.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/eventdev/eventdev_pmd_vdev.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/kni/rte_kni_common.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/vhost/rte_vdpa.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/vhost/rte_vhost_async.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/vhost/rte_vhost_crypto.h
- /home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/vhost/vdpa_driver.h
Regards,
/Bruce
