[dpdk-dev] Illegal instruction at rte_malloc_socket

[Daniel Kaminsky]

Did you run the program using "sudo"?

Daniel Kaminsky

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On Dec 24, 2013, at 3:05 AM, Surya Nimmagadda <nscsekhar at juniper.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When I try to run the sample applications like l2fwd or exception_path, they get aborted at rte_malloc_socket. 
> 
> Can someone please take a look and let me know what I am missing?
> 
> Here is a back trace when I run in gdb:
> 
> EAL: Master core 0 is ready (tid=f7df6800)
> [New Thread 0xb67fab40 (LWP 4480)]
> EAL: Core 1 is ready (tid=b67fab40)
> [New Thread 0xb5ff9b40 (LWP 4481)]
> EAL: Core 2 is ready (tid=b5ff9b40)
> [New Thread 0xb57f8b40 (LWP 4482)]
> EAL: Core 3 is ready (tid=b57f8b40)
> EAL: PCI device 0000:00:03.0 on NUMA socket -1
> EAL:   probe driver: 8086:100e rte_em_pmd
> 
> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
> 0x080c3084 in rte_malloc_socket ()
> (gdb)
> 
> Here are my setup details:
> 
> Environment : Ubuntu VM
> 
> $echo $RTE_TARGET
> i686-default-linuxapp-gcc
> 
> Network devices using IGB_UIO driver
> ====================================
> 0000:00:03.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' drv=igb_uio unused=e1000
> 0000:00:04.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' drv=igb_uio unused=e1000
> 
> Network devices using kernel driver
> ===================================
> 0000:00:05.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' if=eth2 drv=e1000 unused=igb_uio
> 0000:00:06.0 '82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller' if=eth3 drv=e1000 unused=igb_uio *Active*
> 
>