[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: don't advertise a physical address when no hugepages
Jan Blunck
jblunck at infradead.org
Mon Jul 3 12:17:06 CEST 2017
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com> wrote:
> When populating a mempool with a virtual memory area, the mempool
> library expects to be able to get the physical address of each page.
>
> When started with --no-huge, the physical addresses may not be available
> because the pages are not locked in memory. It sometimes returns
> RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR, which makes the mempool_populate() function to fail.
>
> This was working before the commit cdc242f260e7 ("eal/linux: support
> running as unprivileged user"), because rte_mem_virt2phy() was returning
> 0 instead of RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR, which was seen as a valid physical
> address.
>
> Since --no-huge is a debug function that breaks the support of physical
> drivers, always set physical addresses to RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR in memzones
> or in rte_mem_virt2phy(), and ensure that mempool won't complain in that
> case.
>
> Fixes: cdc242f260e7 ("eal/linux: support running as unprivileged user")
>
> CC: stable at dpdk.org
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck at infradead.org>
> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - initialize memory segments (rte_memseg) with RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR
> if started with --no-huge
> - return RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR when rte_malloc_virt2phy() if the
> memory segment has no physical address
> - drop change in eal_common_memzone.c: the physical address is
> now set to RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR as per return value of
> rte_malloc_virt2phy()
>
>
> lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h | 2 +-
> lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c | 4 +++-
> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 9 ++++++++-
> lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h
> index 61aac322b..3d37f79b8 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h
> @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ rte_malloc_set_limit(const char *type, size_t max);
> * @param addr
> * Address obtained from a previous rte_malloc call
> * @return
> - * NULL on error
> + * RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR on error
> * otherwise return physical address of the buffer
> */
> phys_addr_t
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
> index f4a883529..5c0627bf4 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_malloc.c
> @@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ rte_malloc_virt2phy(const void *addr)
> {
> const struct malloc_elem *elem = malloc_elem_from_data(addr);
> if (elem == NULL)
> - return 0;
> + return RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR;
> + if (elem->ms->phys_addr == RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR)
> + return RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR;
> return elem->ms->phys_addr + ((uintptr_t)addr - (uintptr_t)elem->ms->addr);
> }
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> index 647d89c58..040f24a43 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
> @@ -112,6 +112,13 @@ test_phys_addrs_available(void)
> if (rte_xen_dom0_supported())
> return;
>
> + if (!rte_eal_has_hugepages()) {
> + RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
> + "Started without hugepages support, physical addresses not available\n");
> + phys_addrs_available = false;
> + return;
> + }
> +
> physaddr = rte_mem_virt2phy(&tmp);
> if (physaddr == RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR) {
> RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
> @@ -1054,7 +1061,7 @@ rte_eal_hugepage_init(void)
> strerror(errno));
> return -1;
> }
> - mcfg->memseg[0].phys_addr = (phys_addr_t)(uintptr_t)addr;
> + mcfg->memseg[0].phys_addr = RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR;
> mcfg->memseg[0].addr = addr;
> mcfg->memseg[0].hugepage_sz = RTE_PGSIZE_4K;
> mcfg->memseg[0].len = internal_config.memory;
> diff --git a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> index f65310f60..6fc3c9c7c 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c
> @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ rte_mempool_populate_virt(struct rte_mempool *mp, char *addr,
> /* required for xen_dom0 to get the machine address */
> paddr = rte_mem_phy2mch(-1, paddr);
>
> - if (paddr == RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR) {
> + if (paddr == RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR && rte_eal_has_hugepages()) {
> ret = -EINVAL;
> goto fail;
> }
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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