[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] test: make hugepage check more robust under Linux

[Aaron Conole]

David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 3:44 PM Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:
>> diff --git a/app/test/has-hugepage.sh b/app/test/has-hugepage.sh
>> index d600fad319..1c3cfb665a 100755
>> --- a/app/test/has-hugepage.sh
>> +++ b/app/test/has-hugepage.sh
>> @@ -3,7 +3,17 @@
>>  # Copyright 2020 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
>>
>>  if [ "$(uname)" = "Linux" ] ; then
>> -       cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages || echo 0
>> +       nr_hugepages=$(cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages)
>> +       # Need to check if we have permissions to access hugepages
>> +       perm=""
>> +       for mount in `mount | grep hugetlbfs | awk '{ print $3; }'`; do
>> +               test ! -w $mount/. || perm="$mount"
>> +       done
>> +       if [ "$perm" = "" -o "$nr_hugepages" = "0" ]; then
>> +               echo 0
>> +       else
>> +               echo $nr_hugepages
>> +       fi
>>  elif [ "$(uname)" = "FreeBSD" ] ; then
>>         echo 1 # assume FreeBSD always has hugepages
>>  else
>
> The check is evaluated first when configuring as normal user and not
> reevaluated when running the tests as root in Travis/GHA, so the tests
> are started with no hugepage.
>
> Then, in Travis and GHA, we can see (sigbus o_O) crashes in no-huge mode.
> I tried to reproduce but did not manage.

I noticed that as well.  I am equally as confused, but I'm working on
it (along with folding in Thomas' suggestions).