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From: Artemy Kovalyov <artemyko@nvidia.com>
To: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"NBU-Contact-Thomas Monjalon (EXTERNAL)" <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	"Ophir Munk" <ophirmu@nvidia.com>,
	"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>,
	"Anatoly Burakov" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
	"Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] eal: fix memory initialization deadlock
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 09:05:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM8PR12MB541667793E7E6AD0499BF89EBAE8A@DM8PR12MB5416.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230905100553.0b6518ca@sovereign>

> > +		/*  memory_hotplug_lock is taken in rte_eal_init(), so it's
> > +		 *  safe to call thread-unsafe version.
> > +		 */
>
> Nit: the lock is really taken in rte_eal_memory_init().
> Probably "The lock is held during initialization, so..."
> would more robust against code changes and differences between platforms.

It was previously located differently, but in the current version, it has been shifted to rte_eal_init(). It might be worth noting this to ensure that if there are further code changes in the future, the locking problem becomes more apparent. We had discussed this in the bug report.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-05  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-30 10:33 [PATCH] " Artemy Kovalyov
2023-08-30 19:13 ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2023-09-04  8:24 ` [PATCH v2] " Artemy Kovalyov
2023-09-05  7:05   ` Dmitry Kozlyuk
2023-09-05  9:05     ` Artemy Kovalyov [this message]
2023-09-05 10:15       ` David Marchand
2023-09-06  9:52 ` [PATCH v3] " Artemy Kovalyov
2023-09-06 12:52   ` David Marchand
     [not found] ` <20230908131737.1714750-1-artemyko@nvidia.com>
2023-09-08 13:17   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] " Artemy Kovalyov

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