[dpdk-dev] Illegal instruction at rte_malloc_socket

Surya Nimmagadda nscsekhar at juniper.net
Tue Dec 24 10:03:25 CET 2013


Yeah. I did.

Thanks
Surya



-------- Original message --------
From: Daniel Kaminsky <daniel.kaminsky at infinitelocality.com>
Date: 12/23/2013 11:23 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: Surya Nimmagadda <nscsekhar at juniper.net>
Cc: dev at dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Illegal instruction at rte_malloc_socket


Did you run the program using "sudo"?

Daniel Kaminsky

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On Dec 24, 2013, at 3:05 AM, Surya Nimmagadda <nscsekhar at juniper.net<mailto:nscsekhar at juniper.net>> wrote:

Hi,

When I try to run the sample applications like l2fwd or exception_path, they get aborted at rte_malloc_socket.

Can someone please take a look and let me know what I am missing?

Here is a back trace when I run in gdb:

EAL: Master core 0 is ready (tid=f7df6800)
[New Thread 0xb67fab40 (LWP 4480)]
EAL: Core 1 is ready (tid=b67fab40)
[New Thread 0xb5ff9b40 (LWP 4481)]
EAL: Core 2 is ready (tid=b5ff9b40)
[New Thread 0xb57f8b40 (LWP 4482)]
EAL: Core 3 is ready (tid=b57f8b40)
EAL: PCI device 0000:00:03.0 on NUMA socket -1
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:100e rte_em_pmd

Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
0x080c3084 in rte_malloc_socket ()
(gdb)

Here are my setup details:

Environment : Ubuntu VM

$echo $RTE_TARGET
i686-default-linuxapp-gcc

Network devices using IGB_UIO driver
====================================
0000:00:03.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' drv=igb_uio unused=e1000
0000:00:04.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' drv=igb_uio unused=e1000

Network devices using kernel driver
===================================
0000:00:05.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' if=eth2 drv=e1000 unused=igb_uio
0000:00:06.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' if=eth3 drv=e1000 unused=igb_uio *Active*




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