[dpdk-dev] [ovs-dev] OvS DPDK crash when HPET timer enabled

[Ilya Maximets]

On 4/13/20 5:27 PM, Ravi Kerur wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 5:05 AM Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 7:57 AM Ravi Kerur <rkerur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello OvS DPDK team,
>>>
>>> I am using OvS 2.13.90 and DPDK 19.11 and wanted to use HPET timer
>> instead
>>> of invariant TSC.
>>>
>>> Enabled CONFIG_RTE_LIBEAL_USE_HPET=y in DPDK
>>>
>>> Kernel has
>>> CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
>>> CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y
>>> CONFIG_HPET=y
>>> CONFIG_HPET_MMAP=y
>>> CONFIG_HPET_MMAP_DEFAULT=y
>>>
>>> cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource
>>> tsc
>>> # cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
>>> tsc hpet acpi_pm
>>>
>>> OvS crashes at
>>>
>>> gdb ovsdb-server /core
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>>> [New LWP 9729]
>>> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>>> Using host libthread_db library
>> "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
>>> Core was generated by `ovsdb-server /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db
>>> -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vf'.
>>> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>> #0  0x0000560fc6db8ac1 in rte_get_hpet_cycles ()
>> Hi,
>> This is a bug on dpdk, NOT ovs.
>> I guess that your kernel does't support getentropy which supported in
>> 3.17 and your cpu don't support rdseed.
>> and that cause a dpdk bug. To workaround, you change: Not tested, hope
>> it's useful for you
>>
>>
> You are correct CPU doesn't support RDSEED instruction but RDRAND is
> supported.
> 
> It's a RT kernel based on 4.19 + RT patches.
> 
> Setting CONFIG_RTE_LIBEAL_USE_HPET=n which is the default,'Invariant TSC'
> will be used. However, I want to use HPET so should I check with DPDK dev?

Yes.  This is a pure DPDK bug.  There is no way to fix it from the OVS side.
Adding dpdk-dev in CC, moving ovs-dev to BCC to avoid cross posting.

Actually, looking at the code in DPDK, it's really old.  I'm wondering if it
ever worked?  Looks like no-one ever tested this configuration.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.

> 
> Thanks,
> Ravi
> 
> 
> 
>> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_timer.c
>> b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_timer.c
>> index a904a8297cd2..4067e46da534 100644
>> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_timer.c
>> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_timer.c
>> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>>  #include "eal_private.h"
>>  #include "eal_internal_cfg.h"
>>
>> -enum timer_source eal_timer_source = EAL_TIMER_HPET;
>> +enum timer_source eal_timer_source = EAL_TIMER_TSC;
>>
>>  #ifdef RTE_LIBEAL_USE_HPET
>>
>>
>>> (gdb) bt
>>> #0  0x0000560fc6db8ac1 in rte_get_hpet_cycles ()
>>> #1  0x0000560fc6c482b0 in rte_rand_init ()
>>> #2  0x0000560fc6e125bd in __libc_csu_init ()
>>> #3  0x00007f5e1f930b28 in __libc_start_main (main=0x560fc6c45940 <main>,
>>> argc=14, argv=0x7fff61ae5088, init=0x560fc6e12570 <__libc_csu_init>,
>>>     fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>,
>>> stack_end=0x7fff61ae5078) at ../csu/libc-start.c:266
>>> #4  0x0000560fc6c485da in _start ()
>>> (gdb) quit
>>>
>>> RTE_INIT(rte_rand_init)
>>> {
>>> ...
>>> }
>>>
>>> rte_rand_init is defined as initializer, following diffs won't help,
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/dpdk.c b/lib/dpdk.c
>>> index 31450d470..f3d3989c8 100644
>>> --- a/lib/dpdk.c
>>> +++ b/lib/dpdk.c
>>> @@ -405,6 +405,12 @@ dpdk_init__(const struct smap *ovs_other_config)
>>>      if (result < 0) {
>>>          VLOG_EMER("Unable to initialize DPDK: %s",
>>> ovs_strerror(rte_errno));
>>>          return false;
>>> +    } else {
>>> +#ifdef RTE_LIBEAL_USE_HPET
>>> +        if (rte_eal_hpet_init(1) < 0) {
>>> +            VLOG_ERR("HPET is not enabled, using TSC as default
>> timer\n");
>>> +        }
>>> +#endif
>>>      }
>>>
>>>      if (VLOG_IS_DBG_ENABLED()) {
>>>
>>> Kindly let me know your inputs on how to overcome this issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ravi
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards, Tonghao
>>
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