From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37B4EA04C3 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:15:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B242E2BBB; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:15:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C23572BA2; Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:15:10 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga008.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.58]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 21 Nov 2019 05:15:09 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.69,224,1571727600"; d="scan'208";a="205067289" Received: from aburakov-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.92]) ([10.237.220.92]) by fmsmga008.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Nov 2019 05:15:07 -0800 To: "Xueming(Steven) Li" , David Marchand Cc: Asaf Penso , dev , dpdk stable References: <1573570228-15676-1-git-send-email-xuemingl@mellanox.com> <1573570228-15676-2-git-send-email-xuemingl@mellanox.com> <9766477f-8efc-9143-6aaa-2dfb595aa622@intel.com> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" Message-ID: <8e45a13a-1a00-bbc3-f688-dbc8c69878a8@intel.com> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:15:07 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] malloc: fix realloc padded element size X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" On 21-Nov-19 12:55 PM, Xueming(Steven) Li wrote: > Hi Anatoly, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Burakov, Anatoly >> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 8:30 PM >> To: David Marchand ; Xueming(Steven) Li >> >> Cc: Asaf Penso ; dev ; dpdk stable >> >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] malloc: fix realloc padded element size >> >> On 20-Nov-19 1:25 PM, David Marchand wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 3:12 AM Xueming(Steven) Li >>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: David Marchand >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:47 AM >>>>> To: Xueming(Steven) Li ; Anatoly Burakov >>>>> >>>>> Cc: Asaf Penso ; dev ; dpdk stable >>>>> >>>>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] malloc: fix realloc padded >>>>> element size >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:50 PM Xueming Li >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> When resize a memory with next element, the original element size grows. >>>>>> If the orginal element has padding, the real inner element size >>>>>> didn't grow as well and this causes trailer verification failure >>>>>> when malloc debug enabled. >>>>> >>>>> I did not see this when running the malloc_autotest with debug enabled. >>>>> What is missing for me to catch it? >>>>> >>>> Yes, it happens rarely, depends on memory fragment. I only caught this in >> middle of a long test. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Just a bit chilly to apply this series. >>>>> The first patch seems an optimisation. >>>>> The second one seems more interesting if we fix the debug mode, but >>>>> I suppose we can live without them in 19.11. >>>> Few people enable memory debug option, they are there for years. >>> >>> Had a discussion offlist with Anatoly. >>> Those two issues are hard to catch but the fixes are relevant and >>> Anatoly is confident. >>> I will take this in rc3. >>> >>> Series applied, thanks. >>> >> >> To test them, i had to modify malloc to always create padded elements :) > > I fix another issue in element join, as I made some local enhancement patch on memory, it's required, not sure whether it help on public code. > > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c > index afacb1813c..c3fa0d1039 100644 > --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c > @@ -487,6 +487,10 @@ join_elem(struct malloc_elem *elem1, struct malloc_elem *elem2) > else > elem1->heap->last = elem1; > elem1->next = next; > + if (elem1->pad) { > + struct malloc_elem *inner = RTE_PTR_ADD(elem1, elem1->pad); > + inner->size += elem2->size; > + } > } > > This looks like a good change as well - while we /mostly/ join elements when they're free, there is one case where we can join a free element with one already occupied - and /that/ element could be padded, which we currently don't update. So, this patch would help the public code as well. > >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Anatoly -- Thanks, Anatoly