Hi, Honnappa

This problem is probability. Test case need to be executed multiple times.

The test steps and code are as follows:

/home/dpdk #./arm64-armv8a-linuxapp-gcc/app/dpdk-testpmd --legacy-mem  -c 0xC  -m 8192

app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 14 ++++++++++++++

1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c

index 55eb293cc0..3c127f9623 100644

--- a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c

+++ b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c

@@ -4251,6 +4251,20 @@ main(int argc, char** argv)

                  rte_stats_bitrate_reg(bitrate_data);

        }

#endif

+

+       printf("start test rte_zmalloc_socket\n");

+       char *a;

+       while((a = rte_zmalloc_socket(NULL, 1024 * 1024, 0, SOCKET_ID_ANY)) != NULL) {

+                for (int i = 0; i < 1024 * 1024; i++) {

+                          if (a[i] != 0) {

+                                   printf("a[%d] = %d\n",i,a[i]);

+                          }

+                          a[i] = 255; // This assignment is important. It can increase the probability.

+                }

+       }

+       printf("end test rte_zmalloc_socket\n");

+       return EXIT_SUCCESS;

+

#ifdef RTE_LIB_CMDLINE

        if (strlen(cmdline_filename) != 0)

                  cmdline_read_from_file(cmdline_filename);

Thanks,

Yunjian

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Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev][dpdk-users] A problem about memory may not be all-zero allocated by rte_zmalloc_socket()

Hi Yunjian,

                That’s interesting. Is it possible to elaborate the use case or possibly provide the code snippet?

It is possible that it is a synchronization problem due to relaxed memory model that Arm architecture uses. There could be a barrier missing in the code.

Thanks,

Honnappa

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Subject: [dpdk-dev][dpdk-users] A problem about memory may not be all-zero allocated by rte_zmalloc_socket()

Hi, all

There's a problem that the memory are allocated by rte_zmalloc_socket()

may not be all-zero on the ARM platform.

However, the x86 platform does not have this problem.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,

Yunjian