[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/mlx: fix rdma-core glue path with EAL plugins

Shahaf Shuler shahafs at mellanox.com
Mon Mar 12 11:05:13 CET 2018


Friday, March 2, 2018 6:08 PM, Timothy Redaelli:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 15:15:17 +0100
> Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com> wrote:
> 
> > Glue object files are looked up in RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH by default when
> > set and should be installed in this directory.
> >
> > During startup, EAL attempts to load them automatically like other
> > plug-ins found there. While normally harmless, dlopen() fails when
> > rdma-core is not installed, EAL interprets this as a fatal error and
> > terminates the application.
> >
> > This patch requests glue objects to be installed in a different
> > directory to prevent their automatic loading by EAL since they are PMD
> > helpers, not actual DPDK plug-ins.
> >
> > Fixes: f6242d0655cd ("net/mlx: make rdma-core glue path configurable")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Reported-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli at redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
> 
> Tested-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli at redhat.com>

Applied to next-net-mlx, thanks. 



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