[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] test/eal: do not scan PCI devices for memory tests

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 2:28 PM David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The memory tests currently check that, for normal mode (not legacy mode),
> there is no memory left behind when exiting.
>
> The problem is that if a ethdev port is allocated when scanning pci
> devices (even if the driver probe fails like when you have a virtio
> management interface attached to the kernel), on exit, dpdk won't free
> the associated memory since ethdev never frees the ethdev memzone.
>
> Workaround this by disabling pci scan.

Not entirely happy with this patch.
I am open to suggestions :-)

>
> Fixes: 651cc78f83b5 ("test: fix hugepage file handling in EAL flags autotest")
> Fixes: 690fd3577e90 ("test/eal: add cases for in-memory and single-file-segments")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org

And we might want to drop stable.


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David Marchand