[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/freebsd: lock memory device to prevent conflicts

[Bruce Richardson]

Only a single DPDK process on the system can be using the /dev/contigmem
mappings at a time, but this was never explicitly enforced, e.g. when
using --in-memory flag on two processes. To prevent possible conflict
issues, we lock the dev node when it's in use, preventing other DPDK
processes from starting up and causing problems for us.

Fixes: 764bf26873b9 ("add FreeBSD support")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 lib/eal/freebsd/eal_hugepage_info.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/eal/freebsd/eal_hugepage_info.c b/lib/eal/freebsd/eal_hugepage_info.c
index 408f054f7a..4a8d87c23e 100644
--- a/lib/eal/freebsd/eal_hugepage_info.c
+++ b/lib/eal/freebsd/eal_hugepage_info.c
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ eal_hugepage_info_init(void)
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "could not open "CONTIGMEM_DEV"\n");
 		return -1;
 	}
+	if (flock(fd, LOCK_EX) < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "could not lock memory. Is another DPDK process running?\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (buffer_size >= 1<<30)
 		RTE_LOG(INFO, EAL, "Contigmem driver has %d buffers, each of size %dGB\n",
-- 
2.30.2