[dpdk-dev] [Bug 320] mlx4: info get fails in secondary process

[Slava Ovsiienko]

Is it really needed for mlx4? mlx4 uses neither Netlink nor shared context.

With best regards, Slava

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 0:04
> To: bugzilla at dpdk.org
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [Bug 320] mlx4: info get fails in secondary process
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:04:26 +0000
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> >             Bug ID: 320
> >            Summary: mlx4: info get fails in secondary process
> >            Product: DPDK
> >            Version: 19.08
> >           Hardware: All
> >                 OS: All
> >             Status: UNCONFIRMED
> >           Severity: normal
> >           Priority: Normal
> >          Component: other
> >           Assignee: dev at dpdk.org
> >           Reporter: stephen at networkplumber.org
> >   Target Milestone: ---
> >
> > Attempts to do dev_info_get in secondary process fail because the
> > driver handle to infiniband (priv->ctx) is not valid in secondary process. This
> leads to:
> >
> > #0  0x00007ffff5d06ab4 in _IO_vfprintf_internal
> > (s=s at entry=0x7fffffffe3c0, format=<optimized out>,
> > format at entry=0x7ffff496a605 "%s/device/net",
> > ap=ap at entry=0x7fffffffe528) at vfprintf.c:1635
> > #1  0x00007ffff5d32599 in _IO_vsnprintf (string=0x7fffffffe4b0 "",
> > maxlen=<optimized out>, format=0x7ffff496a605 "%s/device/net",
> > args=args at entry=0x7fffffffe528) at vsnprintf.c:119
> > #2  0x00007ffff5d0fd32 in __snprintf (s=s at entry=0x0,
> > maxlen=maxlen at entry=0,
> > format=format at entry=0x7ffff496a605 "%s/device/net") at snprintf.c:34
> > #3  0x00007ffff4720b8b in mlx4_get_ifname
> > (priv=priv at entry=0xc0137e93c0,
> > ifname=ifname at entry=0x7fffffffe690) at
> > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dpdk-18.11/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_ethdev.c:71
> > #4  0x00007ffff47214e4 in mlx4_dev_infos_get (dev=<optimized out>,
> > info=0x7fffffffe6e0) at
> > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dpdk-18.11/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_ethdev.c:583
> > #5  0x00007ffff44b896c in rte_eth_dev_info_get
> > (port_id=port_id at entry=0,
> > dev_info=dev_info at entry=0x7fffffffe6e0) at
> > /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/dpdk-18.11/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c:2532
> >
> 
> I am testing a patch for this.