[PATCH v8 05/26] drivers: add process-type guards for secondary process

Hemant Agrawal hemant.agrawal at nxp.com
Tue Aug 11 13:57:10 CEST 2026


From: Prashant Gupta <prashant.gupta_3 at nxp.com>

Add RTE_PROC_PRIMARY checks in device initialization paths for
dma/dpaa drivers. Secondary processes should skip hardware
initialization to prevent segfaults when accessing hardware
registers that are only mapped in the primary process.

Signed-off-by: Prashant Gupta <prashant.gupta_3 at nxp.com>
---
 drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c   | 3 +++
 drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c b/drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c
index e2cb157c43..3981bf277e 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dpaa/dpaa_qdma.c
@@ -1351,6 +1351,9 @@ dpaa_qdma_init(struct rte_dma_dev *dmadev)
 	int ret;
 	uint32_t i, j, k;
 
+	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (dpaa_get_devargs(dmadev->device->devargs, DPAA_DMA_ERROR_CHECK)) {
 		s_hw_err_check = true;
 		DPAA_QDMA_INFO("Enable DMA error checks");
diff --git a/drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c
index 4181fefe82..184e4ced9e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dpaa/dpaa_ethdev.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
  *
  *   Copyright 2016 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. All rights reserved.
- *   Copyright 2017-2020,2022-2025 NXP
+ *   Copyright 2017-2020,2022-2026 NXP
  *
  */
 /* System headers */
@@ -2676,6 +2676,9 @@ rte_dpaa_remove(struct rte_dpaa_device *dpaa_dev)
 
 	PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE();
 
+	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY)
+		return 0;
+
 	eth_dev = rte_eth_dev_allocated(dpaa_dev->device.name);
 	if (eth_dev && eth_dev->state != RTE_ETH_DEV_UNUSED) {
 		dpaa_eth_dev_close(eth_dev);
-- 
2.25.1



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