[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] app/test-pmd: enable testpmd on windows

[Dmitry Kozlyuk]

2021-03-19 09:51 (UTC-0700), Jie Zhou:
> Issue under active investigation:
> - Recent DPDK upstream change "eal: detach memsegs on cleanup" exposed
>   failure at eal exit with "EAL: Could not unmap memory: No Error".
>   Investigating KERNELBASE!UnmapViewOfFile. The issue will cause system
>   crash. Currently temporarily remove cleanup at exit on Windows.
>   Will revert after issue root caused and fixed

+Anatoly

It's my fault I assumed "eal: detach memsegs on cleanup" series related to
multiprocess only and didn't properly review it.

The culprit is this code (eal_common_memory.c:1019):

for (i = 0; i < RTE_DIM(mcfg->memsegs); i++) {
	struct rte_memseg_list *msl = &mcfg->memsegs[i];

	/* skip uninitialized segments */
	if (msl->base_va == NULL)
		continue;
	/*
	 * external segments are supposed to be detached at this point,
	 * but if they aren't, we can't really do anything about it,
	 * because if we skip them here, they'll become invalid after
	 * we unmap the memconfig anyway. however, if this is externally
	 * referenced memory, we have no business unmapping it.
	 */
	if (!msl->external)
		if (rte_mem_unmap(msl->base_va, msl->len) != 0)
			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Could not unmap memory: %s\n",
				strerror(errno));

1. It assumes memory is allocated using mapping, which is not the case for
Windows. Instead of rte_mem_unmap() it should be eal_mem_free(), which is the
same munmap() on Unices. However...

2. It assumes this line will remove all mappings within (base_va, size), as
munmap()/rte_mem_unmap() would do. However, eal_mem_free(base_va, size) is
only guaranteed to work if (base_va, size) came from eal_mem_reserve(size) or
from OS-specific allocation (mmap on Unices, VirtualAlloc2 on Windows).
Because of underlying munmap, it works as desired on Unices, but not on
Windows.

3. A minor, but still: errno -> rte_errno, strerror -> rte_strerror.

I can make eal_mem_free() behave as expected at issue 2.
Or should we simple disable this code when where's no multiprocess support
(how do we test for it properly, BTW)?