[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v9 10/10] Enable the new EAL thread API

[Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 09:45:44AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 7:50 AM Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile
> <navasile at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 04:44:34PM -0700, Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile wrote:
> > > From: Narcisa Vasile <navasile at microsoft.com>
> > >
> > > Rename pthread_* occurrences with the new rte_thread_* API.
> > > Enable the new API in the build system.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Narcisa Vasile <navasile at microsoft.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > I'll send v10.
> > Can someone please help with an example on how to check for ABI breaks? Thank you!
> >
> > I've run:
> > DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION=v21.05 DPDK_ABI_REF_DIR=~/ref ./devtools/test-meson-builds.sh
> > which doesn't give any warnings about the ABI break.
> 
> This should work the way you tried if you have working toolchains and
> libabigail installed.
> Something is off in your env.
> 
> Side note: ovsrobot is out those days (we have some trouble in one of
> RH labs and it happens ovsrobot is hosted there), but you could try
> with a github repo of yours + GHA, and the ABI failure should be
> caught too.
> 
> 
> I just tried on my rhel7 (gcc 4.8.5 + libabigail 1.8.2) with your
> series applied.
> $ DPDK_ABI_REF_VERSION=v21.05
> DPDK_ABI_REF_DIR=~/git/pub/dpdk.org/reference
> ./devtools/test-meson-builds.sh
> ...
> Error: ABI issue reported for 'abidiff --suppr
> /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/devtools/../devtools/libabigail.abignore
> --no-added-syms --headers-dir1
> /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/reference/v21.05/build-gcc-shared/usr/local/include
> --headers-dir2 /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/build-gcc-shared/install/usr/local/include
> /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/reference/v21.05/build-gcc-shared/dump/librte_eal.dump
> /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/build-gcc-shared/install/dump/librte_eal.dump'
> ABIDIFF_ABI_CHANGE, this change requires a review (abidiff flagged
> this as a potential issue).
> 
> 
> $ abidiff --suppr
> /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/devtools/../devtools/libabigail.abignore
> --no-added-syms --headers-dir1
> /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/reference/v21.05/build-gcc-shared/usr/local/include
> --headers-dir2 /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/build-gcc-shared/install/usr/local/include
> /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/reference/v21.05/build-gcc-shared/dump/librte_eal.dump
> /home/dmarchan/git/pub/dpdk.org/build-gcc-shared/install/dump/librte_eal.dump
> Functions changes summary: 0 Removed, 2 Changed (1 filtered out), 0
> Added (20 filtered out) functions
> Variables changes summary: 0 Removed, 0 Changed, 0 Added variable
> 
> 2 functions with some indirect sub-type change:
> 
>   [C] 'function int rte_ctrl_thread_create(pthread_t*, const char*,
> const pthread_attr_t*, void* (void*)*, void*)' at rte_lcore.h:443:1
> has some indirect sub-type changes:
>     parameter 1 of type 'pthread_t*' changed:
>       in pointed to type 'typedef pthread_t' at rte_thread.h:42:1:
>         typedef name changed from pthread_t to rte_thread_t at rte_thread.h:42:1
>         underlying type 'unsigned long int' changed:
>           entity changed from 'unsigned long int' to 'struct
> rte_thread_tag' at rte_thread.h:40:1
>           type size hasn't changed
>     parameter 3 of type 'const pthread_attr_t*' changed:
>       in pointed to type 'const pthread_attr_t':
>         'const pthread_attr_t' changed to 'const rte_thread_attr_t'
> 
>   [C] 'function int rte_thread_setname(pthread_t, const char*)' at
> rte_lcore.h:377:1 has some indirect sub-type changes:
>     parameter 1 of type 'typedef pthread_t' changed:
>       typedef name changed from pthread_t to rte_thread_t at rte_thread.h:42:1
>       underlying type 'unsigned long int' changed:
>         entity changed from 'unsigned long int' to 'struct
> rte_thread_tag' at rte_thread.h:40:1
>         type size hasn't changed
> 
> 
> 
> Can you check that in your env build-gcc-shared/ and the build
> directory for references are configured with debug symbols?
> You should see:
> $ meson configure build-gcc-shared | awk '$1=="buildtype" {print $2}'
> debugoptimized
> $ meson configure reference/v21.05/build | awk '$1=="buildtype" {print $2}'
> debugoptimized
> 
> 
Thank you very much David! There was something wrong with my local reference.
Using your commands, I am able to run the tools now.
>