On 10/09/2024 20:12, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, September 6, 2024 12:53 PM
>> To: Ali Alnubani <alia...@nvidia.com>; sta...@dpdk.org
>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <abhishek.mara...@microsoft.com>;
>> David Christensen <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Hemant Agrawal
>> <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes <ian.sto...@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob
>> <jer...@marvell.com>; John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>; Ju-
>> Hyoung Lee <juh...@microsoft.com>; Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>; Pei
>> Zhang <pezh...@redhat.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com>; NBU-
>> Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <tho...@monjalon.net>;
>> yangh...@redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: 21.11.8 patches review and test
>>
>> On 05/09/2024 15:02, Kevin Traynor wrote:
>>> On 05/09/2024 14:29, Ali Alnubani wrote:
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2024 3:38 PM
>>>>> To: sta...@dpdk.org
>>>>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <abhishek.mara...@microsoft.com>;
>> Ali
>>>>> Alnubani <alia...@nvidia.com>; David Christensen
>> <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>;
>>>>> Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com>; Ian Stokes
>>>>> <ian.sto...@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>; John McNamara
>>>>> <john.mcnam...@intel.com>; Ju-Hyoung Lee <juh...@microsoft.com>;
>> Kevin
>>>>> Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>; Pei
>> Zhang
>>>>> <pezh...@redhat.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com>; NBU-
>>>>> Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL) <tho...@monjalon.net>;
>>>>> yangh...@redhat.com
>>>>> Subject: 21.11.8 patches review and test
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 21.11.8.
>>>>>
>>>>> The planned date for the final release is 18th September.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
>>>>> any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
>>>>> the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.
>>>>>
>>>>> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v21.11.8-rc1
>>>>>
>>>>> These patches are located at branch 21.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
>>>>> https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kevin
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Hi Kevin,
>>>>
>>>> I see this build failure in Debian 12 and Fedora 40:
>>>>
>>>> $ meson --werror --buildtype=debugoptimized build && ninja -C build
>>>> [..]
>>>> drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c:916:25: error: 's' may be used
>> uninitialized [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>>>>
>>>> Will update with the rest of our functional testing later during the next
>>>> couple
>> of weeks.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Ali
>>>
>>> ok, thanks. I will check it out.
>> Hi Ali,
>>
>> It looks like a false positive, as the stats [0] are initialised in
>> mtr_stats_convert() before they are used. The code is unchanged since
>> the last release so probably it's compiler/distro change for this release.
>>
>> I've built with this meson command using latest gcc and clang on a F40
>> and not seeing this issue [1].
>>
>> Are you using same compiler versions ? Any other details needed to
>> reproduce ?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Kevin.
>>
>> [0]
>> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-
>> stable/tree/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c?h=21.11#n906
>>
>> [1]
>> $ clang --version
>> clang version 18.1.6 (Fedora 18.1.6-3.fc40)
>> $ gcc --version
>> gcc (GCC) 14.2.1 20240801 (Red Hat 14.2.1-1)
>>
>> commit 680818068d31764357075cde440232ce5ab8b786 (HEAD -> 21.11, tag:
>> v21.11.8-rc1, origin/21.11)
>> Author: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com>
>> Date: Thu Sep 5 10:34:16 2024 +0100
>>
>> version: 21.11.8-rc1
>>
>> e.g.
>> $ meson --werror --buildtype=debugoptimized build-gcc
>> ...
>> $ ninja -C build-gcc
>> ninja: Entering directory `build-gcc'
>> [3071/3071] Linking target app/test/dpdk-test
>>
>>
>>
>>> Kevin.
>
> Hi Kevin, apologies for the late response,
>
> The build failure doesn't reproduce for me on some environments either.
> I tried to compare the log of 2 builds (one that reproduced, and one that
> didn't), and the only difference I saw was related to AVX512 support.
>
> Build passed on an AMD EPYC 7713 system (3rd Gen EPYC, no AVX512 support):
> [..]
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512BW__" : (undefined)
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512CD__" : (undefined)
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512DQ__" : (undefined)
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512F__" : (undefined)
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512VL__" : (undefined)
> [..]
>
> Build failed on an AMD EPYC 9654P system (4th Gen EPYC, has AVX512 support):
> [..]
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512BW__" : 1
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512CD__" : 1
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512DQ__" : 1
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512F__" : 1
> Fetching value of define "__AVX512VL__" : 1
> [..]
>
> The build failure doesn't reproduce for me on 22.11 and newer versions.
>
Yes, that function is not present in later versions. I don't have easy
access to an AVX512 enabled system but it should be a simple fix.
Would you be able to try with the below ?
--- a/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c
+++ b/drivers/net/softnic/rte_eth_softnic_meter.c
@@ -904,5 +904,5 @@ pmd_mtr_stats_read(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
/* Stats format conversion. */
if (stats || stats_mask) {
- struct rte_mtr_stats s;
+ struct rte_mtr_stats s = {0};
uint64_t s_mask = 0;
> Regards,
> Ali
