[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] eal: use different constructor priorities for initcalls

[Shreyansh Jain]

On Wednesday 15 February 2017 03:32 PM, Jan Blunck wrote:
> This introduces different initcall macros to allow for late registration of
> the virtual device bus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck at infradead.org>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h   | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h   | 12 ++++++++++--
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_tailq.h |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
> index 7c36969..9f161f2 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_bus.h
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ extern "C" {
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <sys/queue.h>
>
> +#include <rte_eal.h>
>  #include <rte_log.h>
>  #include <rte_dev.h>
>
> @@ -145,7 +146,21 @@ void rte_bus_dump(FILE *f);
>   * The constructor has higher priority than PMD constructors.
>   */
>  #define RTE_REGISTER_BUS(nm, bus) \
> -static void __attribute__((constructor(101), used)) businitfn_ ##nm(void) \
> +RTE_EAL_INIT(businitfn_ ##nm); \
> +static void businitfn_ ##nm(void) \
> +{\
> +	(bus).name = RTE_STR(nm);\
> +	rte_bus_register(&bus); \
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * Helper for late Bus registration.
> + * The constructor still has higher priority than PMD constructors but has
> + * lower priority than RTE_REGISTER_BUS.
> + */
> +#define RTE_REGISTER_BUS_LATE(nm, bus) \
> +RTE_POST_EAL_INIT(businitfn_ ##nm); \
> +static void businitfn_ ##nm(void) \
>  {\
>  	(bus).name = RTE_STR(nm);\
>  	rte_bus_register(&bus); \
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
> index 03fee50..3a6bd71 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_eal.h
> @@ -258,8 +258,16 @@ static inline int rte_gettid(void)
>  	return RTE_PER_LCORE(_thread_id);
>  }
>
> -#define RTE_INIT(func) \
> -static void __attribute__((constructor, used)) func(void)
> +#define RTE_EAL_INIT(func) \
> +static void __attribute__((constructor(101), used)) func(void)
> +
> +#define RTE_POST_EAL_INIT(func) \
> +static void __attribute__((constructor(102), used)) func(void)
> +
> +#define RTE_DEV_INIT(func) \
> +static void __attribute__((constructor(103), used)) func(void)

Shouldn't we simply allow this priority to be default to allow for some
priority space between buses and default init?

> +
> +#define RTE_INIT(func) RTE_DEV_INIT(func)
>
>  #ifdef __cplusplus
>  }
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_tailq.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_tailq.h
> index 3aae098..07ceec1 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_tailq.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_tailq.h
> @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ struct rte_tailq_head *rte_eal_tailq_lookup(const char *name);
>  int rte_eal_tailq_register(struct rte_tailq_elem *t);
>
>  #define EAL_REGISTER_TAILQ(t) \
> -RTE_INIT(tailqinitfn_ ##t); \
> +RTE_EAL_INIT(tailqinitfn_ ##t); \
>  static void tailqinitfn_ ##t(void) \
>  { \
>  	if (rte_eal_tailq_register(&t) < 0) \
>