[PATCH v2 3/3] test/eal_flags: remove PCI probing for recursive calls

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Fri Feb 13 16:22:26 CET 2026


When creating another primary process as part of EAL flag testing, avoid
unexpected side-effects due to the HW being used by disabling PCI
probing at process startup.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 app/test/test_eal_flags.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/test/test_eal_flags.c b/app/test/test_eal_flags.c
index 83e906a069..bebddf1c98 100644
--- a/app/test/test_eal_flags.c
+++ b/app/test/test_eal_flags.c
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ test_misc_flags(void)
 #define no_shconf "--no-shconf"
 #define allow "--allow"
 #define vdev "--vdev"
+#define no_pci "--no-pci"
 #define eal_debug_logs "--log-level=lib.eal:debug"
 #define bus_debug_logs "--log-level=bus.*:debug"
 
@@ -930,28 +931,28 @@ test_misc_flags(void)
 	const char *argv5[] = {prgname, prefix, mp_flag, eal_debug_logs, "--syslog=invalid"};
 
 	/* With no-sh-conf, also use no-huge to ensure this test runs on BSD */
-	const char *argv6[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE,
+	const char *argv6[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE,
 			no_shconf, nosh_prefix, no_huge};
 
 	/* With --huge-dir */
 	const char *argv7[] = {prgname, "-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE,
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=hugedir", "--huge-dir", hugepath};
 	/* With empty --huge-dir (should fail) */
 	const char *argv8[] = {prgname, "-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE,
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=hugedir", "--huge-dir"};
 	/* With invalid --huge-dir */
 	const char *argv9[] = {prgname, "-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE,
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=hugedir", "--huge-dir", "invalid"};
 	/* With invalid --huge-dir sub-directory */
 	const char *argv10[] = {prgname, "-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE,
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=hugedir", "--huge-dir", hugepath_dir};
 	/* With valid --huge-dir sub-directory */
 	const char *argv11[] = {prgname, "-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE,
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=hugedir", "--huge-dir", hugepath_dir2};
 	/* Secondary process with invalid --huge-dir (should run as flag has no
 	 * effect on secondary processes) */
@@ -960,41 +961,41 @@ test_misc_flags(void)
 
 	/* try running with base-virtaddr param */
 	const char *argv13[] = {prgname, "--file-prefix=virtaddr",
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--base-virtaddr=0x23456789"};
 
 	/* try running with --vfio-intr INTx flag */
 	const char *argv14[] = {prgname, "--file-prefix=intr",
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--vfio-intr=legacy"};
 
 	/* try running with --vfio-intr MSI flag */
 	const char *argv15[] = {prgname, "--file-prefix=intr",
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--vfio-intr=msi"};
 
 	/* try running with --vfio-intr MSI-X flag */
 	const char *argv16[] = {prgname, "--file-prefix=intr",
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--vfio-intr=msix"};
 
 	/* try running with --vfio-intr invalid flag */
 	const char *argv17[] = {prgname, "--file-prefix=intr",
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--vfio-intr=invalid"};
 
 	/* With process type as auto-detect */
 	const char * const argv18[] = {prgname, "--file-prefix=auto",
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--proc-type=auto"};
 
 	/* With process type as auto-detect with no-shconf */
-	const char * const argv19[] = {prgname, "--proc-type=auto", eal_debug_logs,
+	const char * const argv19[] = {prgname, "--proc-type=auto", eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			no_shconf, nosh_prefix, no_huge};
 
 	/* With process type as --create-uio-dev flag */
 	const char * const argv20[] = {prgname, "--file-prefix=uiodev",
-			eal_debug_logs,
+			eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--create-uio-dev"};
 
 	/* Try running with --huge-worker-stack flag */
@@ -1227,43 +1228,43 @@ test_file_prefix(void)
 			DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--file-prefix=" memtest };
 
 	/* primary process with memtest1 and default mem mode */
-	const char *argv1[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m",
+	const char *argv1[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m",
 			DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--file-prefix=" memtest1 };
 
 	/* primary process with memtest1 and legacy mem mode */
-	const char *argv2[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m",
+	const char *argv2[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m",
 			DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--file-prefix=" memtest1,
 			"--legacy-mem" };
 
 	/* primary process with memtest2 and legacy mem mode */
-	const char *argv3[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m",
+	const char *argv3[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m",
 			DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--file-prefix=" memtest2,
 			"--legacy-mem" };
 
 	/* primary process with memtest2 and default mem mode */
-	const char *argv4[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m",
+	const char *argv4[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m",
 			DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--file-prefix=" memtest2 };
 
 	/* primary process with --in-memory mode */
-	const char * const argv5[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m",
+	const char * const argv5[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m",
 		DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--in-memory" };
 
 	/* primary process with memtest1 and --in-memory mode */
-	const char * const argv6[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m",
+	const char * const argv6[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m",
 		DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--in-memory",
 		"--file-prefix=" memtest1 };
 
 	/* primary process with parent file-prefix and --in-memory mode */
-	const char * const argv7[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m",
+	const char * const argv7[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m",
 		DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--in-memory", "--file-prefix", prefix };
 
 	/* primary process with memtest1 and --single-file-segments mode */
-	const char * const argv8[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m",
+	const char * const argv8[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m",
 		DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--single-file-segments",
 		"--file-prefix=" memtest1 };
 
 	/* primary process with memtest1 and --huge-unlink=never mode */
-	const char * const argv9[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, "-m",
+	const char * const argv9[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci, "-m",
 		DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE, "--huge-unlink=never",
 		"--file-prefix=" memtest1 };
 
@@ -1518,41 +1519,41 @@ test_memory_flags(void)
 			"-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE};
 
 	/* valid -m flag */
-	const char *argv1[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv1[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, "-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE};
 
 	/* valid (zero) --socket-mem flag */
 	char arg2_socket_mem[SOCKET_MEM_STRLEN];
-	const char *argv2[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv2[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, arg2_socket_mem};
 
 	/* invalid (incomplete) --socket-mem flag */
 	char arg3_socket_mem[SOCKET_MEM_STRLEN];
-	const char *argv3[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv3[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, arg3_socket_mem};
 
 	/* invalid (mixed with invalid data) --socket-mem flag */
 	char arg4_socket_mem[SOCKET_MEM_STRLEN];
-	const char *argv4[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv4[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, arg4_socket_mem};
 
 	/* invalid (with numeric value as last character) --socket-mem flag */
 	char arg5_socket_mem[SOCKET_MEM_STRLEN];
-	const char *argv5[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv5[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, arg5_socket_mem};
 
 	/* invalid (with empty socket) --socket-mem flag */
 	char arg6_socket_mem[SOCKET_MEM_STRLEN];
-	const char *argv6[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv6[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, arg6_socket_mem};
 
 	/* invalid (null) --socket-mem flag */
-	const char *argv7[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv7[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, "--socket-mem="};
 
 	/* valid --socket-mem specified together with -m flag */
 	char arg8_socket_mem[SOCKET_MEM_STRLEN];
-	const char *argv8[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv8[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, "-m", DEFAULT_MEM_SIZE,
 			arg8_socket_mem};
 
@@ -1570,12 +1571,12 @@ test_memory_flags(void)
 
 	/* invalid --socket-mem flag (with extra socket) */
 	char invalid_socket_mem[SOCKET_MEM_STRLEN];
-	const char *argv9[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv9[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, invalid_socket_mem};
 
 	/* valid --socket-mem flag */
 	char valid_socket_mem[SOCKET_MEM_STRLEN];
-	const char *argv10[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs,
+	const char *argv10[] = {prgname, eal_debug_logs, no_pci,
 			"--file-prefix=" memtest, valid_socket_mem};
 
 	if (launch_proc(argv0) != 0) {
-- 
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