[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] app/procinfo: Fix memory leak by rte_service_init

[Van Haaren, Harry]

> From: Varghese, Vipin
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 7:48 PM
> To: Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org; Varghese, Vipin <vipin.varghese at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v2] app/procinfo: Fix memory leak by rte_service_init
> 
> When procinfo is run multiple times against primary application, it
> consumes huge page memory by rte_service_init. Which is not released
> at exit of application.
> 
> Invoking rte_service_finalize to real memory and prevent memory leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese <vipin.varghese at intel.com>

Thanks Vipin.

Note that this fixes a hugepages memory leak that would otherwise
occur when a secondary process initializes EAL and then quits.

Note that this patch depends on the patch adding rte_service_finalize()
http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/34555/

Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>