[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/9] eal: map shared config into exact same address as primary process

[Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>]

Shared config is shared across primary and secondary processes.
However,when using rte_malloc, the malloc elements keep references to
the heap inside themselves. This heap reference might not be referencing
a local heap because the heap reference points to the heap of whatever
process has allocated that malloc element. Therefore, there can be
situations when malloc elements in a given heap actually reference
different addresses for the same heap - depending on which process has
allocated the element. This can lead to segmentation faults when dealing
with malloc elements allocated on the same heap by different processes.

To fix this problem, heaps will now have the same addresses across
processes. In order to achieve that, a new field in a shared mem_config
(a structure that holds the heaps, and which is shared across processes)
was added to keep the address of where this config is mapped in the
primary process.

Secondary process will now map the config in two stages - first, it'll
map it into an arbitrary address and read the address the primary
process has allocated for the shared config. Then, the config is
unmapped and re-mapped using the address previously read.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal_memconfig.h |  5 ++++
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c                 | 31 +++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal_memconfig.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal_memconfig.h
index 30ce6fc..d6359e5 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal_memconfig.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal_memconfig.h
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ struct rte_mem_config {
 
 	/* Heaps of Malloc per socket */
 	struct malloc_heap malloc_heaps[RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES];
+
+	/* address of mem_config in primary process. used to map shared config into
+	 * exact same address the primary process maps it.
+	 */
+	uint64_t mem_cfg_addr;
 } __attribute__((__packed__));
 
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 6994303..fedd82f 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -239,6 +239,11 @@ rte_eal_config_create(void)
 	}
 	memcpy(rte_mem_cfg_addr, &early_mem_config, sizeof(early_mem_config));
 	rte_config.mem_config = (struct rte_mem_config *) rte_mem_cfg_addr;
+
+	/* store address of the config in the config itself so that secondary
+	 * processes could later map the config into this exact location */
+	rte_config.mem_config->mem_cfg_addr = (uintptr_t) rte_mem_cfg_addr;
+
 }
 
 /* attach to an existing shared memory config */
@@ -246,6 +251,8 @@ static void
 rte_eal_config_attach(void)
 {
 	void *rte_mem_cfg_addr;
+	struct rte_mem_config *mem_config;
+
 	const char *pathname = eal_runtime_config_path();
 
 	if (internal_config.no_shconf)
@@ -257,13 +264,27 @@ rte_eal_config_attach(void)
 			rte_panic("Cannot open '%s' for rte_mem_config\n", pathname);
 	}
 
-	rte_mem_cfg_addr = mmap(NULL, sizeof(*rte_config.mem_config),
-				PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, mem_cfg_fd, 0);
-	close(mem_cfg_fd);
-	if (rte_mem_cfg_addr == MAP_FAILED)
+	/* map it as read-only first */
+	mem_config = (struct rte_mem_config *) mmap(NULL, sizeof(*mem_config),
+			PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, mem_cfg_fd, 0);
+	if (mem_config == MAP_FAILED)
 		rte_panic("Cannot mmap memory for rte_config\n");
 
-	rte_config.mem_config = (struct rte_mem_config *) rte_mem_cfg_addr;
+	/* store address used by primary process */
+	rte_mem_cfg_addr = (void *) (uintptr_t) mem_config->mem_cfg_addr;
+
+	/* unmap the config */
+	munmap(mem_config, sizeof(*mem_config));
+
+	/* map the config again, with the proper virtual address */
+	mem_config = (struct rte_mem_config *) mmap(rte_mem_cfg_addr,
+			sizeof(*mem_config), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
+			mem_cfg_fd, 0);
+	if (mem_config == MAP_FAILED || mem_config != rte_mem_cfg_addr)
+		rte_panic("Cannot mmap memory for rte_config\n");
+	close(mem_cfg_fd);
+
+	rte_config.mem_config = mem_config;
 }
 
 /* Detect if we are a primary or a secondary process */
-- 
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