Before this patch, the debug_autotest would call fork(),
call rte_panic() or rte_exit() in the child process, and
examine the return code to verify that rte_panic() and
rte_exit() were correctly reporting failures.
With the inclusion of the rte_eal_cleanup() patch, rte_exit()
was modified to cleanly tear-down EAL allocations. Currently
only one library (service cores) is allocared by EAL at startup
and should be cleaned up. This library has a check on a normal
(non-hugepage) variable to protect against double cleanup. The
service cores finalize() function itself frees back hugepage mem.
Given the fork() approach from the unit test, and the fact that
the double-free check is on an ordinary variable, causes multiple
child processed (fork()-ed from the unit-test runner) to attempt
to free the huge-page memory multiple times. The variable to
protect against double-cleanup was not effective, as the fork()
would restore it to show initialized in the next child.
The solution is to call rte_service_finalize() *before* calling
fork(), which results in the service cores double-cleanup variable
to be zero before the fork(), and hence the child processes never
free the hugepage service-cores memory (correct behaviour, as the
unit-test suite is still running, and owns the hugepages).
Fixes: aec9c13c5257 ("eal: add function to release internal resources")
Reported-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haa...@intel.com>
---
Cc: tho...@monjalon.net
Please consider for including in RC2 as this fixes the
currently failing debug_autotest.
---
test/test/test_debug.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/test/test/test_debug.c b/test/test/test_debug.c
index dd0de44..faf2cf5 100644
--- a/test/test/test_debug.c
+++ b/test/test/test_debug.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <rte_debug.h>
#include <rte_common.h>
#include <rte_eal.h>
+#include <rte_service_component.h>
#include "test.h"
@@ -50,6 +51,11 @@ test_exit_val(int exit_val)
int pid;
int status;
+ /* manually cleanup EAL memory, as the fork() below would otherwise
+ * cause the same hugepages to be free()-ed multiple times.
+ */
+ rte_service_finalize();
+
pid = fork();
if (pid == 0)
--
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