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Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] test/eal: do not scan PCI devices for
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David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 2:28 PM David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> The memory tests currently check that, for normal mode (not legacy mode),
>> there is no memory left behind when exiting.
>>
>> The problem is that if a ethdev port is allocated when scanning pci
>> devices (even if the driver probe fails like when you have a virtio
>> management interface attached to the kernel), on exit, dpdk won't free
>> the associated memory since ethdev never frees the ethdev memzone.
>>
>> Workaround this by disabling pci scan.
>
> Not entirely happy with this patch.
> I am open to suggestions :-)

Seems like an order of allocation / free issue.  Is it possible to
change the order to be consistent?  IE: we only allocate something after
we know there's good reason to do so and then we can be sure to always
free?  I don't know the code in this area well enough yet to comment any
more than that.

>>
>> Fixes: 651cc78f83b5 ("test: fix hugepage file handling in EAL flags autotest")
>> Fixes: 690fd3577e90 ("test/eal: add cases for in-memory and single-file-segments")
>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
>
> And we might want to drop stable.