[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: fix segmentation fault when start secondary process

Michael Qiu michael.qiu at intel.com
Thu Dec 18 11:16:49 CET 2014


EAL:   probe driver: 8086:10fb rte_ixgbe_pmd
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7f18c2a00000
EAL:   PCI memory mapped at 0x7f18c2a80000
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This is introduced by commit: 46bc9d75
	ixgbe: fix multi-process support
When start primary process with command line:
./app/test/test -n 1 -c ffff -m 64
then start the second one:
./app/test/test -n 1 --proc-type=secondary --file-prefix=rte
This segment-fault will occur.

Root cause is test app on primary process only starts device, but
the queue need initialized by manually command line.
So the tx queue is still NULL when secondary process startup.

Reported-by: Yong Liu <yong.liu at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Qiu <michael.qiu at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
index 9401916..87ed6ee 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
@@ -749,9 +749,19 @@ eth_ixgbe_dev_init(__attribute__((unused)) struct eth_driver *eth_drv,
 	 */
 	if (rte_eal_process_type() != RTE_PROC_PRIMARY){
 		struct igb_tx_queue *txq;
-		/* TX queue function in primary, set by last queue initialized */
-		txq = eth_dev->data->tx_queues[eth_dev->data->nb_tx_queues-1];
-		set_tx_function(eth_dev, txq);
+		/* TX queue function in primary, set by last queue initialized
+		 * Tx queue may not initialized by primary process
+		 * */
+		if (eth_dev->data->tx_queues) {
+			txq = eth_dev->data->tx_queues[eth_dev->data->nb_tx_queues-1];
+			set_tx_function(eth_dev, txq);
+		} else {
+			/* Shall we exit this process if we get here? */
+			PMD_INIT_LOG(INFO, "Last tx queue initialized fail in "
+				     "secondary process, please verify if tx "
+				     "queues were initialized in primary "
+				     "process!\n");
+		}
 
 		if (eth_dev->data->scattered_rx)
 			eth_dev->rx_pkt_burst = ixgbe_recv_scattered_pkts;
-- 
1.9.3



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