[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] malloc: notify primary process about hotplug in secondary

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 04-Dec-18 5:06 PM, Seth Howell wrote:
> When secondary process hotplugs memory, it sends a request
> to primary, which then performs the real mmap() and sends
> sync requests to all secondary processes. Upon receiving
> such sync request, each secondary process will notify the
> upper layers of hotplugged memory (and will call all
> locally registered event callbacks).
> 
> In the end we'll end up with memory event callbacks fired
> in all the processes except the primary, which is a bug.
> 
> This gets critical if memory is hotplugged while a VFIO
> device is attached, as the VFIO memory registration -
> which is done from a memory event callback present in the
> primary process only - is never called.
> 
> After this patch, a primary process fires memory event
> callbacks before secondary processes start their
> synchronizations - both for hotplug and hotremove.
> 
> Change-Id: I60de33913f58bc2454069c3844826c92cb043fff

This is internal tag, please don't include it in the patch. Also, misses 
Fixes: tag, and Cc: stable at dpdk.org (since this bug goes back to 18.05).

> Signed-off-by: Seth Howell <seth.howell at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Darek Stojaczyk <dariusz.stojaczyk at intel.com>
> ---

Otherwise,

Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

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Thanks,
Anatoly