On 5/22/2023 7:01 AM, Ruifeng Wang wrote:
Access of any memory in the hugepage shared file-backed area will trigger
an unexpected forked child process segment fault. The root cause is DPDK
doesn't support fork model [1] (calling rte_eal_init() before fork()).
Forked child process can't be treated as a secondary process.
Hence fix it by avoiding fork and doing verification in the main process.
[1] https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-July/108106.html
Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com>
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Would this be something that a secondary process-based test could test?
That's how we test rte_panic() and other calls.
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Thanks,
Anatoly
