From: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal/service: fix exit by resetting service lcores
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:08:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7th7yu7rb1.fsf@dhcp-25.97.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8zTcyE8Swm-s8R3jQ3pajLV6+HXPHRmwUhqw6KktCm1MQ@mail.gmail.com> (David Marchand's message of "Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:15:49 +0100")
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 3:39 PM Harry van Haaren
> <harry.van.haaren@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> This commit releases all service cores from their role,
>> returning them to ROLE_RTE on rte_service_finalize().
>>
>> This may fix an issue relating to the service cores causing
>
> You don't seem convinced.
>
>
>> a race-condition on eal_cleanup(), where the service core
>> could still be executing while the main thread has already
>> free-d the service memory, leading to a segfault.
>>
>> Fixes: 21698354c832 ("service: introduce service cores concept")
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>>
>> Reported-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
>> Reported-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
>> Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
>
> I am okay with merging this so that we stop getting random failures of the ut.
I think it could also potentially cause errors in user applications that
regularly exit, and which use the service core architecture. So it's
worth getting in now, anyway.
> I will let this patch on the ml and apply on Friday at worse.
>
> Please take the time to reply to my question.
> Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-11 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-10 13:33 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Harry van Haaren
2020-03-10 16:31 ` David Marchand
2020-03-10 16:38 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-03-10 17:44 ` Aaron Conole
2020-03-10 19:14 ` Aaron Conole
2020-03-11 9:09 ` David Marchand
2020-03-11 14:39 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Harry van Haaren
2020-03-11 16:15 ` David Marchand
2020-03-11 16:21 ` Van Haaren, Harry
2020-03-12 8:59 ` David Marchand
2020-03-11 17:08 ` Aaron Conole [this message]
2020-03-12 9:03 ` David Marchand
2020-03-13 10:04 ` David Marchand
2020-04-06 10:30 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2020-04-14 13:22 ` Aaron Conole
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