On 1/22/2017 2:45 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 03:27:43PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 1/20/2017 11:21 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>>> On 1/20/2017 8:04 AM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
>>>> Fix an silly error by auto-complete while managing the merge conflicts.
>>>> It's the eth_dev_data (but not eth_dev) entry should be memset.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: d948f596fee2 ("ethdev: fix port data mismatched in multiple process
>>>> model")
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan....@linux.intel.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c | 2 +-
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
>>>> index 4790faf..61f44e2 100644
>>>> --- a/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
>>>> +++ b/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c
>>>> @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ struct rte_eth_dev *
>>>> return NULL;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> - memset(&rte_eth_devices[port_id], 0, sizeof(*eth_dev->data));
>>>> + memset(&rte_eth_dev_data[port_id], 0, sizeof(struct rte_eth_dev_data));
>>>
>>> Not directly related to the this issue, but, after fix, this may have
>>> issues with secondary process.
>>>
>>> There were patches sent to fix this.
>>
>> I mean this one:
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-January/054422.html
>
> d948f596fee2 ("ethdev: fix port data mismatched in multiple process
> model") should have fixed it.
Think about case, where secondary process uses a virtual PMD, which does
a rte_eth_dev_allocate() call, shouldn't this corrupt primary process
device data?
>
> --yliu
>
