[PATCH] test/mbuf: fix the forked process segment fault

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 5/22/2023 7:01 AM, Ruifeng Wang wrote:
> Access of any memory in the hugepage shared file-backed area will trigger
> an unexpected forked child process segment fault. The root cause is DPDK
> doesn't support fork model [1] (calling rte_eal_init() before fork()).
> Forked child process can't be treated as a secondary process.
> 
> Hence fix it by avoiding fork and doing verification in the main process.
> 
> [1] https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-July/108106.html
> 
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
> ---

Would this be something that a secondary process-based test could test? 
That's how we test rte_panic() and other calls.

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Thanks,
Anatoly