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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] eal: fix failure race and behavior of thread create
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:58:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3722941.kQq0lBPeGt@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8w=+7xcysnYxJHGiTrpmxFG=_qz-Kp0CTko=yd+0nu3dg@mail.gmail.com>

09/03/2023 10:17, David Marchand:
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:33 PM David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 7:44 PM Tyler Retzlaff
> > <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > In rte_thread_create setting affinity after pthread_create may fail.
> > > Such a failure should result in the entire rte_thread_create failing
> > > but doesn't.
> > >
> > > Additionally if there is a failure to set affinity a race exists where
> > > the creating thread will free ctx and depending on scheduling of the new
> > > thread it may also free ctx (double free).
> > >
> > > Resolve both of the above issues by using the pthread_setaffinity_np
> > > prior to thread creation to set the affinity of the created thread. By
> > > doing this no failure paths exist after pthread_create returns
> > > successfully.
> > >
> > > Fixes: ce6e911d20f6 ("eal: add thread lifetime API")
> > > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: roretzla@linux.microsoft.com
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
> > Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
> 
> Series applied, thanks.

Unfortunately we cannot merge this patch
because it does not compile on Alpine Linux (musl libc):

lib/eal/unix/rte_thread.c:160:31: error:
implicit declaration of function 'pthread_attr_setaffinity_np'

Is it possible to fix the race without using pthread_attr_setaffinity_np?



  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-09  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-02 18:44 Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-02 18:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] eal/windows: fix create thread failure behavior Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-07 14:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] eal: fix failure race and behavior of thread create David Marchand
2023-03-09  9:17   ` David Marchand
2023-03-09  9:58     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2023-03-09 20:49       ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-09 21:05         ` David Marchand
2023-03-13 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] fix race in rte_thread_create failure path Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-13 23:31   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] eal: make cpusetp to rte thread set affinity const Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-13 23:31   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] eal: fix failure path race setting new thread affinity Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-14 11:47   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] fix race in rte_thread_create failure path David Marchand
2023-03-14 13:59     ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-14 22:44 ` [PATCH v3 " Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-14 22:44   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] eal: make cpusetp to rte thread set affinity const Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-14 22:44   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] eal: fix failure path race setting new thread affinity Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-14 22:50 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] fix race in rte_thread_create failure path Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-14 22:50   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] eal: make cpusetp to rte thread set affinity const Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-14 22:50   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] eal: fix failure path race setting new thread affinity Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-15  1:20     ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-03-15  1:26       ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-16  0:04 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] fix race in rte_thread_create failure path Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-16  0:04   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] eal: make cpusetp to rte thread set affinity const Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-16  0:04   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] eal: fix failure path race setting new thread affinity Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-16  0:07 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] fix race in rte_thread_create failure path Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-16  0:07   ` [PATCH v5 1/2] eal: make cpusetp to rte thread set affinity const Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-16  0:07   ` [PATCH v5 2/2] eal: fix failure path race setting new thread affinity Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-17 10:45     ` David Marchand
2023-03-17 14:49       ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-17 18:51         ` David Marchand
2023-03-17 21:20           ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-17 18:52 ` [PATCH v6] eal/unix: fix thread creation David Marchand
2023-03-17 21:24   ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-03-18 18:26     ` David Marchand
2023-03-18 18:26   ` David Marchand

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