[dpdk-dev] Segfault seen in netmap_compat app on Power8
Rahul Lakkireddy
rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com
Wed Apr 12 08:51:00 CEST 2017
On Thursday, April 04/06/17, 2017 at 15:06:03 +0530, gowrishankar muthukrishnan wrote:
> With gcc 6.3.0, I find this app functioning w/o crash.
>
> Did disabling gcc optimization help ? (set EXTRA_CFLAGS='-O0' before
> compile).
>
Yes, with optimization disabled, the app is not hitting the segfault.
Thanks,
Rahul
> Regards,
> Gowrishankar
> On Thursday 06 April 2017 02:34 PM, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For netmap_compat bridge application on Power8, in netmap_regif
> > function, the assignment to nmif->ring_ofs[i] is not getting reflected
> > immediately.
> >
> > As a result, the subsequent call to netmap_ring_setup ends up writing
> > data at wrong offset. This causes segfault in the app.
> >
> > If we print the nmif->ring_ofs[i] after assignment, then, we see the
> > correct offset and application starts fine.
> >
> > So, probably, some kind of barrier or mechanism to flush write is
> > required on Power8?
> >
> > BTW, this was tried with ToT dpdk git tree on RHEL 7.3 having below
> > gcc version:
> >
> > gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11) (GCC)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rahul
> >
> >
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