[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/8] eal: cleanup resources on shutdown

[Thomas Monjalon]

That's a pity this patchset is not concluded.
Please Stephen, could you respin with a fix?


03/05/2020 19:21, David Marchand:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:58 AM Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> >
> > Started using valgrind with DPDK, and there are lots of leftover
> > memory and file descriptors. This makes it hard to find application
> > leaks versus DPDK leaks.
> >
> > The DPDK has a function that applications can use to tell it
> > to cleanup resources on shutdown (rte_eal_cleanup). But the
> > current coverage of that API is spotty. Many internal parts of
> > DPDK leave files and allocated memory behind.
> >
> > This patch set is a first step at getting the sub-parts of
> > DPDK to cleanup after themselves. These are the easier ones,
> > the harder and more critical ones are in the drivers
> > and the memory subsystem.
> >
> > There are no new exposed API or ABI changes here.
> >
> > v3
> >  - fix a couple of minor checkpatch complaints
> >
> > v2
> >  - rebase after 20.05 file renames
> >  - incorporate review comment feedback
> >  - hold off some of the more involved patches for later
> 
> Same segfault as v1.
> 
> $ ./devtools/test-null.sh ./build/app/dpdk-testpmd 0x3 --plop
> ./build/app/dpdk-testpmd: unrecognized option '--plop'
> EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
> EAL: Detected 1 NUMA nodes
> 
> Usage: ./build/app/dpdk-testpmd [options]
> 
> (snip)
> 
> EAL: FATAL: Invalid 'command line' arguments.
> EAL: Invalid 'command line' arguments.
> EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1
>   Cause: Cannot init EAL: Invalid argument
> ./devtools/test-null.sh: line 32: 23134 Broken pipe             (
> sleep 1 && echo stop )
>      23135 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) | $testpmd -c
> $coremask --no-huge -m 20 $libs -w 0:0.0 --vdev net_null1 --vdev
> net_null2 $eal_options -- --no-mlockall --total-num-mbufs=2048
> $testpmd_options -ia
> 
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