From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: protect malloc stats with lock
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:42:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2424466.Pz8JVrVW5I@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39635342ba1c29bc96bee904e6b888b058f0a5ca.1513865781.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
21/12/2017 18:32, Anatoly Burakov:
> When we're gathering statistics, we are traversing the freelist,
> which may change under our feet in multithreaded scenario. This
> is verified by occasional segfaults when running malloc autotest
> on a machine with big amount of cores.
>
> This patch protects malloc heap stats call with a lock. It changes
> its definition in the process due to locking invalidating the
> const-ness, but this isn't a public API, so that's OK.
>
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Applied, thanks
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2017-12-21 17:32 [dpdk-stable] " Anatoly Burakov
2018-01-12 14:42 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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