[dpdk-users] lthread_run( ): segmentation fault

[ikuzar RABE <ikuzar9295@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I run the program you can see here (L-thread):
https://doc.dpdk.org/api/examples_2performance-thread_2pthread_shim_2main_8c-example.html
If I run it without changing code, it 's OK.

Now, Inside initial_lthread(), if I comment the code which run and
synchronizes _helloworld_pthread (I just keep initial_lthread),
I get a segmentation fault inside lthread_run(); I put breakpoints to
locate where the segfault comes from.

I get nothing interesting from backtrace with gdb (I put -O0 and -g3 as
optimisation and debugging options). I do not know why.
Please see below what I get:

MY-PC# gdb --args ./lthread_hello_dpdk -l 0,25
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Reading symbols from ./lthread_hello_dpdk...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /.../lthread_hello_dpdk -l 0,25
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
EAL: Detected 48 lcore(s)
EAL: Detected 2 NUMA nodes
EAL: Multi-process socket /var/run/dpdk/rte/mp_socket
[New Thread 0x7ffff607a700 (LWP 32139)]
[New Thread 0x7ffff5879700 (LWP 32140)]
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
[New Thread 0x7ffff4ef4700 (LWP 32141)]
[New Thread 0x7fdfeefff700 (LWP 32142)]
EAL: PCI device 0000:02:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1583 net_i40e
PMD: Global register is changed during support QinQ parser
PMD: Global register is changed during configure hash input set
PMD: Global register is changed during configure fdir mask
PMD: Global register is changed during configure hash mask
PMD: Global register is changed during support QinQ cloud filter
PMD: Global register is changed during disable FDIR flexible payload
EAL: PCI device 0000:05:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:06:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1533 net_e1000_igb
LTHREAD: starting scheduler 0x7ffbeff34040 on lcore 25 phys core 1

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fdfeefff700 (LWP 32142)]
0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1  0x00007ffbeff3c440 in ?? ()
#2  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

Please see below how  I comment the code which run and
synchronizes _helloworld_pthread,

_thread pthread_t _tid[HELLOW_WORLD_MAX_LTHREADS];
static void *initial_lthread(void *args __attribute__((unused)))
{
        int lcore = (int) rte_lcore_id();

        /*
         *
         * We can now enable pthread API override
         * and start to use the pthread APIs
         */
        pthread_override_set(1);
        uint64_t i;
        int ret;
#if 0
        /* initialize mutex for shared counter */
        _print_count = 0;
        pthread_mutex_init(&_print_lock, NULL);

        /* initialize mutex and condition variable controlling thread exit
*/
        pthread_mutex_init(&_exit_lock, NULL);
        pthread_cond_init(&_exit_cond, NULL);


        /* spawn a number of threads */
        for (i = 0; i < HELLOW_WORLD_MAX_LTHREADS; i++) {
                /*
                 * Not strictly necessary but
                 * for the sake of this example
                 * use an attribute to pass the desired lcore
                 */
                pthread_attr_t attr;
                rte_cpuset_t cpuset;
//                CPU_ZERO(&cpuset);
//                CPU_SET(lcore, &cpuset);
//                pthread_attr_init(&attr);
//                pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(&attr, sizeof(rte_cpuset_t),
&cpuset);
                /* create the thread */
                ret = pthread_create(&_tid[i], NULL,
                                _helloworld_pthread, (void *) i);
                if (ret != 0)
                        rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Cannot create helloworld
thread\n");
        }
#endif
        /* wait for 1s to allow threads
         * to block on the condition variable
         * N.B. nanosleep() is resolved to lthread_sleep()
         * by the shim.
         */
        struct timespec time;
        time.tv_sec = 1;
        time.tv_nsec = 0;
    nanosleep(&time, NULL);

#if 0
        /* wake up all the threads */
        pthread_cond_broadcast(&_exit_cond);

        /* wait for them to finish */
        for (i = 0; i < HELLOW_WORLD_MAX_LTHREADS; i++) {
                uint64_t thread_no;
                pthread_join(_tid[i], (void *) &thread_no);
                if (thread_no != i)
                        printf("error on thread exit\n");
        }
        pthread_cond_destroy(&_exit_cond);
        pthread_mutex_destroy(&_print_lock);
        pthread_mutex_destroy(&_exit_lock);
#endif
        /* shutdown the lthread scheduler */
        lthread_scheduler_shutdown(rte_lcore_id());
        lthread_detach();

        return NULL;
}

To summarize: if I do not create lthread within init_thread I get
segmentation fault

Thank you for your help,

Regards,
ikuzar