[dpdk-dev] rte_eal_init() causes PANIC using latest DPDK code.

Tetsuya Mukawa mukawa at igel.co.jp
Mon Jan 19 11:06:20 CET 2015


On 2015/01/19 18:49, Qiu, Michael wrote:
> Hi Tetsuya,
>
> I see two lines log like:
>
> EAL:   cannot open VFIO container, error 2 (No such file or directory)
> EAL: VFIO support could not be initialized
>
> It should not happen as I have a patch merged to master branch.
>
> There should have something wrong, could you please help me to debug this?
>
> All I needed are the results of:
> 1.  cat /proc/modules
> 2. lsmod | grep vfio
> 3. ls -al /dev/vfio
> 4. uname -a

Because I got the log while running bisect, I guess your patch was not
be applied at the time.
(But "Fix rte_is_power_of_2" was applied.)

I tried to run testpmd using latest code again, and I didn't see above
warnings.
So your patch works fine. Sorry for confusion.

Thanks,
Tetsuya

> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> On 2015/1/19 16:54, Doherty, Declan wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Tetsuya Mukawa
>>> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2015 7:11 AM
>>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] rte_eal_init() causes PANIC using latest DPDK code.
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've got following error using latest DPDK code.
>>> Does someone face the same issue?
>>> In my environment, It seems almost all DPDK apps (at lease l2fwd and
>>> testpmd) cannot work.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>> EAL: Support maximum 128 logical core(s) by configuration.
>>> EAL: Detected 8 lcore(s)
>>> EAL:   cannot open VFIO container, error 2 (No such file or directory)
>>> EAL: VFIO support could not be initialized
>>> EAL: Setting up memory...
>>> EAL: Ask a virtual area of 0x280000000 bytes
>>> EAL: Virtual area found at 0x7ffd40000000 (size = 0x280000000)
>>> EAL: Requesting 10 pages of size 1024MB from socket 0
>>> RING: Cannot reserve memory for tailq
>>> EAL: rte_eal_common_log_init(): cannot create log_history mempool
>>> PANIC in rte_eal_init():
>>> Cannot init logs
>>> 6: [./build/l2fwd() [0x41cf53]]
>>> 5: [/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)
>>> [0x7ffff7105ec5]]
>>> 4: [./build/l2fwd(main+0x1c) [0x41c52c]]
>>> 3: [./build/l2fwd(rte_eal_init+0x1073) [0x46a653]]
>>> 2: [./build/l2fwd(__rte_panic+0xc9) [0x41c3ff]]
>>> 1: [./build/l2fwd(rte_dump_stack+0x18) [0x471828]]
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> I tried bisect, and it seems below patch causes this.
>>> "eal: fix check for power of 2 in 0 case".
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tetsuya
>>>
>>>
>> Hey Tetsuya, 
>>
>> This is the issue which my patch (http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/2333/) submitted on Friday addresses.
>>
>>




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