[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linux: add operation LOCK_NB to flock()

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 25-Mar-21 8:21 AM, xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
> 
> The hugepage of different size, 2MB, 1GB may be mounted on
> the same directory (e.g /dev/hugepages). Then dpdk
> primary process will be blocked. To address this issue,
> add the LOCK_NB flags to flock().
> 
> $ cat /proc/mounts
> ...
> none /dev/hugepages hugetlbfs rw,seclabel,relatime,pagesize=1024M 0 0
> none /dev/hugepages hugetlbfs rw,seclabel,relatime,pagesize=2M 0 0
> 
> Add more details for err logs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
> ---
>   lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_hugepage_info.c | 7 +++++--
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_hugepage_info.c b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_hugepage_info.c
> index d97792cadeb6..1ff76e539053 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_hugepage_info.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_hugepage_info.c
> @@ -451,9 +451,12 @@ hugepage_info_init(void)
>   		hpi->lock_descriptor = open(hpi->hugedir, O_RDONLY);
>   
>   		/* if blocking lock failed */
> -		if (flock(hpi->lock_descriptor, LOCK_EX) == -1) {
> +		if (flock(hpi->lock_descriptor, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB) == -1) {
>   			RTE_LOG(CRIT, EAL,
> -				"Failed to lock hugepage directory!\n");
> +				"Failed to lock hugepage directory! "
> +				"The hugepage dir (%s) was locked by "
> +				"other processes or self twice.\n",
> +				hpi->hugedir);
>   			break;
>   		}
>   		/* clear out the hugepages dir from unused pages */
> 

Use cases such as "having two hugetlbfs page sizes on the same hugetlbfs 
mountpoint" are user error, but i agree that deadlocking is probably not 
the way we want to go about it.

An alternative way would be to check if we already have a mountpoint 
with the same path, and this would produce a better error message (as a 
user, "hugepage dir is locked by self twice" doesn't tell me anything 
useful), at a cost of slightly more complicated code.

I'm not sure which way i want to go here. Normally, hugetlbfs shouldn't 
be staying locked for long, so i'm wary of adding a LOCK_NB here, so i 
feel slightly uneasy about this patch. Do you have any opinions?

Also, do other OS's EALs need similar fix?

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly