[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] mem: ease init in a docker container

[David Marchand]

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:53 AM Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com>
wrote:

> move_pages() is only used to get the numa node id, but this function
> is not allowed by default in docker (it needs CAP_SYS_NICE and an update of
> the seccomp profile).
> get_mempolicy() also requires CAP_SYS_NICE but doesn't need any change in
> the default seccomp profile.
>
> Note that the returned value of move_pages() was not checked, thus some
> errors could be hidden (if the requested id was 0).
>
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> Fixes: 582bed1e1d1d ("mem: support mapping hugepages at runtime")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com>
> Reviewed-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
> Reviewed-by: Didier Pallard <didier.pallard at 6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> ---
>
> v2: add fixes tag + cc stable
>     fix title prefix
>
>  lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_memalloc.c | 10 +++++++---
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_memalloc.c
> b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_memalloc.c
> index 1e9ebb86dd1b..438faa0ab168 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_memalloc.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal_memalloc.c
> @@ -600,9 +600,13 @@ alloc_seg(struct rte_memseg *ms, void *addr, int
> socket_id,
>         }
>
>  #ifdef RTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES
> -       move_pages(getpid(), 1, &addr, NULL, &cur_socket_id, 0);
> -
> -       if (cur_socket_id != socket_id) {
> +       ret = get_mempolicy(&cur_socket_id, NULL, 0, addr,
> +                           MPOL_F_NODE | MPOL_F_ADDR);
> +       if (ret < 0) {
> +               RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, "%s(): get_mempolicy: %s\n",
> +                       __func__, strerror(errno));
> +               goto mapped;
> +       } else if (cur_socket_id != socket_id) {
>                 RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL,
>                                 "%s(): allocation happened on wrong socket
> (wanted %d, got %d)\n",
>                         __func__, socket_id, cur_socket_id);
> --
> 2.21.0
>
>
Reviewed-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>

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David Marchand