yes, above changes fixes my issue.
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Xie, Huawei <huawei.xie at intel.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/2016 12:21 AM, Vincent Li wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running the dpdk git repo which already had commit ac5e1d838dc
>> (virtio: skip error when probing kernel managed device), but in my
>> test, it seems still taking control of the kernel managed virtio
>> device and segmentation fault, here is the example:
>>
>> # ./tools/dpdk_nic_bind.py --status
>>
>> Network devices using DPDK-compatible driver
>> ============================================
>> 0000:00:07.0 'Virtio network device' drv=igb_uio unused=
>> 0000:00:08.0 'Virtio network device' drv=igb_uio unused=
>>
>> Network devices using kernel driver
>> ===================================
>> 0000:00:03.0 'Virtio network device' if= drv=virtio-pci unused=igb_uio
>>
>> #./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0xf -n 4 -- -i
>> EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
>> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
>> EAL: WARNING: cpu flags constant_tsc=yes nonstop_tsc=no -> using
>> unreliable clock cycles !
>> EAL: PCI device 0000:00:03.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> EAL: probe driver: 1af4:1000 rte_virtio_pmd
>> PMD: vtpci_init(): trying with legacy virtio pci.
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Hi Vincent:
> Could you try this?
> Weird. I had tested by binding the virtio nic with different kernel
> drivers including unbinding any drivers when submitting patches. But i
> find that it doesn't work even with that commit.
> So dev->devargs could be NULL.
>
> If it works for you, i will submit the fix.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> index 45edecc..8aeb44a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_pci.c
> @@ -650,7 +650,8 @@ vtpci_init(struct rte_pci_device *dev, struct
> virtio_hw *hw)
> PMD_INIT_LOG(INFO, "trying with legacy virtio pci.");
> if (legacy_virtio_resource_init(dev, hw) < 0) {
> if (dev->kdrv == RTE_KDRV_UNKNOWN &&
> - dev->devargs->type != RTE_DEVTYPE_WHITELISTED_PCI) {
> + (!dev->devargs ||
> + dev->devargs->type != RTE_DEVTYPE_WHITELISTED_PCI)){
> PMD_INIT_LOG(INFO,
> "skip kernel managed virtio device.");
> return 1;
>
>
>>
>> if I blacklist 0000:00:03.0 from testpmd, testpmd works:
>>
>> # ./x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/app/testpmd -c 0xf -n 4 -b 0000:00:03.0 -- -i
>> EAL: Detected 4 lcore(s)
>> EAL: Probing VFIO support...
>> EAL: WARNING: cpu flags constant_tsc=yes nonstop_tsc=no -> using
>> unreliable clock cycles !
>> EAL: PCI device 0000:00:03.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> EAL: PCI device 0000:00:07.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> EAL: probe driver: 1af4:1000 rte_virtio_pmd
>> PMD: virtio_read_caps(): no modern virtio pci device found.
>> PMD: vtpci_init(): trying with legacy virtio pci.
>> EAL: PCI device 0000:00:08.0 on NUMA socket -1
>> EAL: probe driver: 1af4:1000 rte_virtio_pmd
>> PMD: virtio_read_caps(): no modern virtio pci device found.
>> PMD: vtpci_init(): trying with legacy virtio pci.
>> Interactive-mode selected
>> Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
>> rte_eth_dev_config_restore: port 0: MAC address array not supported
>> Port 0: 52:54:00:EA:6E:3E
>> Configuring Port 1 (socket 0)
>> rte_eth_dev_config_restore: port 1: MAC address array not supported
>> Port 1: 52:54:00:24:06:DB
>> Checking link statuses...
>> Port 0 Link Up - speed 10000 Mbps - full-duplex
>> Port 1 Link Up - speed 10000 Mbps - full-duplex
>> Done
>> testpmd>
>>
>
