On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 6:32 PM Min Hu (Connor) <humin29@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> From: Min Hu <humin29@huawei.com>
>
> Secondary process need to close dev to release process private resources.
> But secondary process should not be obliged to wait for device stop before
> closing ethdev.
>
> This patch fixed it.
>
> Fixes: febc855b358e ("ethdev: forbid closing started device")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Min Hu <humin29@huawei.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * fixed comment.
> ---
>  lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> index 09abee6345..f34c6580a4 100644
> --- a/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> +++ b/lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> @@ -1574,7 +1574,8 @@ rte_eth_dev_close(uint16_t port_id)
>         RTE_ETH_VALID_PORTID_OR_ERR_RET(port_id, -ENODEV);
>         dev = &rte_eth_devices[port_id];
>
> -       if (dev->data->dev_started) {
It will be good to add the comment as a part of the code as well.
That way someone in future won't have to look at the commit log to
understand the behavior.

> +       if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY &&
> +                       dev->data->dev_started) {
>                 RTE_ETHDEV_LOG(ERR, "Cannot close started device (port %u)\n",
>                                port_id);
>                 return -EINVAL;
> --
> 2.33.0
>