30/04/2018 15:07, Andrew Rybchenko:
> On 04/30/2018 01:38 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> > At hugepage info initialization, EAL takes out a write lock on
> > hugetlbfs directories, and drops it after the memory init is
> > finished. However, in non-legacy mode, if "-m" or "--socket-mem"
> > switches are passed, this leads to a deadlock because EAL tries
> > to allocate pages (and thus take out a write lock on hugedir)
> > while still holding a separate hugedir write lock in EAL.
> >
> > Fix it by checking if write lock in hugepage info is active, and
> > not trying to lock the directory if the hugedir fd is valid.
> >
> > Fixes: 1a7dc2252f28 ("mem: revert to using flock and add per-segment
> > lockfiles")
> > Cc: anatoly.bura...@intel.com
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com>
Tested-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coque...@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>
> Tested-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybche...@solarflare.com>
Applied, thanks
