[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mempool/octeontx2: fix possible ABI break with force inline

[Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pbhagavatula at marvell.com <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 12:21 PM
> To: Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj at marvell.com>; Nithin Kumar
> Dabilpuram <ndabilpuram at marvell.com>; Vamsi Krishna Attunuru
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> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula
> <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev][PATCH v2] mempool/octeontx2: fix possible ABI break
> with force inline
> 
> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>
> 
> Since direct register access is used in npa_lf_aura_op_alloc_bulk() use
> __rte_noinline instead of __rte_always_inline to preserve ABI.
> Based on the compiler npa_lf_aura_op_alloc_bulk might be inlined
> differently which may lead to undefined behaviour due to handcoded asm.
> 
> Fixes: 29893042c29d ("mempool/octeontx2: fix clang build for arm64")
> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula at marvell.com>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>