From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Lukasz Wojciechowski <l.wojciechow@partner.samsung.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Anoob Joseph <anoobj@marvell.com>,
Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>,
Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>,
Aviad Yehezkel <aviadye@mellanox.com>,
Boris Pismenny <borisp@mellanox.com>,
Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>,
Anoob Joseph <anoob.joseph@caviumnetworks.com>,
"dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"stable@dpdk.org" <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/13] security: fix verification of parameters
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:45:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200410084528.GA625@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ec218c78-9936-9298-beda-bf0f73f20b7b@partner.samsung.com>
On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 06:10:11PM +0200, Lukasz Wojciechowski wrote:
>
> W dniu 09.04.2020 o 17:22, Thomas Monjalon pisze:
> > 09/04/2020 16:21, Lukasz Wojciechowski:
> >> W dniu 09.04.2020 o 16:07, Lukasz Wojciechowski pisze:
> >>> W dniu 09.04.2020 o 13:13, Bruce Richardson pisze:
> >>>> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 12:54:10PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>>>> 09/04/2020 12:14, Bruce Richardson:
> >>>>>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 07:51:35PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>>>>>> 08/04/2020 17:49, Lukasz Wojciechowski:
> >>>>>>>> Hi guys,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I don't know what is the current status of "legacy" build using
> >>>>>>>> gnumakes, so I added the new DEBUG flag to config just as it was
> >>>>>>>> done in
> >>>>>>>> other libs like eventdev.
> >>>>>>>> Many guides still point config files as the one that should be
> >>>>>>>> changed
> >>>>>>>> in order to enable some features, so I thought I should add it
> >>>>>>>> there.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> If I understand well the official build system now is the one
> >>>>>>>> based on
> >>>>>>>> using meson and ninja, however it hasn't got anything similar to the
> >>>>>>>> gnamakefiles system, e.g.
> >>>>>>>> in the meson.build file for libraries all the libraries have build
> >>>>>>>> variable set to true and there are few ifs that check it, but as
> >>>>>>>> it's
> >>>>>>>> set to true all libraries build always.
> >>>>>>>> And each library considered there defines RTE_LIBRTE_[LIBRARY_NAME].
> >>>>>>>> It's kind of weird.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> foreach l:libraries
> >>>>>>>> * build = true**
> >>>>>>>> * reason = '<unknown reason>' # set if build == false to
> >>>>>>>> explain why
> >>>>>>>> ...
> >>>>>>>> * if not build*
> >>>>>>>> dpdk_libs_disabled += name
> >>>>>>>> set_variable(name.underscorify() +
> >>>>>>>> '_disable_reason', reason)
> >>>>>>>> else
> >>>>>>>> enabled_libs += name
> >>>>>>>> *dpdk_conf.set('RTE_LIBRTE_' + name.to_upper(), 1)*
> >>>>>>>> ...
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Have you think about reusing config files in meson configuration and
> >>>>>>>> have a single point of configuration? Of course all meson flags can
> >>>>>>>> overwrite the default config.
> >>>>>>> This is on purpose.
> >>>>>>> We are removing most of compile-time options with meson.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I think we can use a global option for debug-specific code.
> >>>>>>> Bruce, what do you recommend?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> Meson has a built-in global debug setting which could be used.
> >>>>>> However,
> >>>>>> that may be too course-grained. If that is the case there are a
> >>>>>> couple of
> >>>>>> options:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 1 Each library can have it's own debug flag defined, which is set on
> >>>>>> the commandline in CFLAGS. Can be done right now - just reuse
> >>>>>> any of the
> >>>>>> debug variables in the existing make config files (stripping off
> >>>>>> the
> >>>>>> CONFIG_), e.g. CFLAGS=-DRTE_MALLOC_DEBUG
> >>>>>> 2 Since that is perhaps not the most usable - though easiest to
> >>>>>> implement -
> >>>>>> we can look to add a general debug option (or couple of options) in
> >>>>>> meson, e.g. debug_libs=, debug_drivers=, where each option takes
> >>>>>> a list of
> >>>>>> libs or drivers to pass the debug flags to. This will require a
> >>>>>> little
> >>>>>> work in the meson build infrastructure, but is not that hard.
> >>>>>> The harder
> >>>>>> part is standardizing the debug flags across all components.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The advantage of #1 is that it works today and just needs some
> >>>>>> documentation for each lib/driver what it's debug flags are. The
> >>>>>> advantage
> >>>>>> of #2 is more usability, but it requires a lot more work to
> >>>>>> standardize
> >>>>>> IMHO.
> >>>>> In this case, we need a general option as the one already provided
> >>>>> by meson.
> >>>>> It means: "I am not in production, I want to see anything behaving
> >>>>> wrong
> >>>>> in the datapath."
> >>>>> "Anything" means we don't need a per-library switch.
> >>>>> And for the other needs (out of fast path), we have a new function:
> >>>>> rte_log_can_log(mylogtype, RTE_LOG_DEBUG)
> >>>>>
> >>>> To use the general option in meson something like below is probably all
> >>>> that is needed to flag the debug build to all components:
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build
> >>>> index 49482091d..b01cd1251 100644
> >>>> --- a/config/meson.build
> >>>> +++ b/config/meson.build
> >>>> @@ -176,6 +176,10 @@ endif
> >>>> # add -include rte_config to cflags
> >>>> add_project_arguments('-include', 'rte_config.h', language: 'c')
> >>>>
> >>>> +if get_option('debug')
> >>>> + add_project_arguments('-DDEBUG', language: 'c')
> >>>> +endif
> >>>> +
> >>> This will conflict with DEBUG define for log level.
> >> Just to be more precise, the log level is defined as RTE_LOG_DEBUG, but
> >> in few places you can find something like:
> >> #define NTB_LOG(level, fmt, args...) \
> >> rte_log(RTE_LOG_ ## level, ntb_logtype, "%s(): " fmt "\n", \
> >>
> >> __func__, ##args)
> >>
> >> and usage like this:
> >> NTB_LOG(DEBUG, "Link is not up.");
> > This is not a conflict.
> > The compiler sees only RTE_LOG_DEBUG.
> >
> > Anyway the right name for the general flag should be RTE_DEBUG.
> >
> Ok, I'll use RTE_DEBUG.
>
> @Bruce Is it ok, so that I would create a patch for meson.build?
Sure. Setting RTE_DEBUG at top level when a debug build is set is probably
a good idea.
/Bruce
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2020-04-08 3:13 ` [dpdk-stable] " Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-08 12:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-08 13:02 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Anoob Joseph
2020-04-08 13:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-08 14:44 ` [dpdk-stable] [EXT] " Anoob Joseph
2020-04-08 15:49 ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-08 17:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-09 10:14 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-04-09 10:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-09 11:13 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-04-09 14:07 ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-09 14:21 ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-09 15:22 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-09 16:10 ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-10 8:45 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
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2020-04-08 3:13 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 02/13] security: fix return types in documentation Lukasz Wojciechowski
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2020-04-08 3:13 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 03/13] security: fix session counter Lukasz Wojciechowski
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2020-04-08 3:13 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2 04/13] app/test: fix macro definition Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-08 12:53 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-08 16:15 ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-08 17:47 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-09 14:10 ` Lukasz Wojciechowski
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2020-04-09 17:24 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 01/13] security: fix verification of parameters Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-13 15:42 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Anoob Joseph
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2020-04-09 17:24 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 02/13] security: fix return types in documentation Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-13 15:43 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Anoob Joseph
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2020-04-09 17:24 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 03/13] security: fix session counter Lukasz Wojciechowski
2020-04-13 15:48 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Anoob Joseph
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2020-04-09 17:24 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 04/13] app/test: remove macro definition Lukasz Wojciechowski
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