[dpdk-stable] [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/13] security: fix verification of parameters

[Lukasz Wojciechowski]

W dniu 09.04.2020 o 17:22, Thomas Monjalon pisze:
> 09/04/2020 16:21, Lukasz Wojciechowski:
>> W dniu 09.04.2020 o 16:07, Lukasz Wojciechowski pisze:
>>> W dniu 09.04.2020 o 13:13, Bruce Richardson pisze:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 12:54:10PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>>>> 09/04/2020 12:14, Bruce Richardson:
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 07:51:35PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>>>>>> 08/04/2020 17:49, Lukasz Wojciechowski:
>>>>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't know what is the current status of "legacy" build using
>>>>>>>> gnumakes, so I added the new DEBUG flag to config just as it was
>>>>>>>> done in
>>>>>>>> other libs like eventdev.
>>>>>>>> Many guides still point config files as the one that should be
>>>>>>>> changed
>>>>>>>> in order to enable some features, so I thought I should add it
>>>>>>>> there.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If I understand well the official build system now is the one
>>>>>>>> based on
>>>>>>>> using meson and ninja, however it hasn't got anything similar to the
>>>>>>>> gnamakefiles system, e.g.
>>>>>>>> in the meson.build file for libraries all the libraries have build
>>>>>>>> variable set to true and there are few ifs that check it, but as
>>>>>>>> it's
>>>>>>>> set to true all libraries build always.
>>>>>>>> And each library considered there defines RTE_LIBRTE_[LIBRARY_NAME].
>>>>>>>> It's kind of weird.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>       foreach l:libraries
>>>>>>>>       *    build = true**
>>>>>>>>       *    reason = '<unknown reason>' # set if build == false to
>>>>>>>> explain why
>>>>>>>>            ...
>>>>>>>>       *    if not build*
>>>>>>>>                dpdk_libs_disabled += name
>>>>>>>>                set_variable(name.underscorify() +
>>>>>>>> '_disable_reason', reason)
>>>>>>>>            else
>>>>>>>>                enabled_libs += name
>>>>>>>>       *dpdk_conf.set('RTE_LIBRTE_' + name.to_upper(), 1)*
>>>>>>>>            ...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Have you think about reusing config files in meson configuration and
>>>>>>>> have a single point of configuration? Of course all meson flags can
>>>>>>>> overwrite the default config.
>>>>>>> This is on purpose.
>>>>>>> We are removing most of compile-time options with meson.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think we can use a global option for debug-specific code.
>>>>>>> Bruce, what do you recommend?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Meson has a built-in global debug setting which could be used.
>>>>>> However,
>>>>>> that may be too course-grained. If that is the case there are a
>>>>>> couple of
>>>>>> options:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1 Each library can have it's own debug flag defined, which is set on
>>>>>>     the commandline in CFLAGS. Can be done right now - just reuse
>>>>>> any of the
>>>>>>     debug variables in the existing make config files (stripping off
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>     CONFIG_), e.g. CFLAGS=-DRTE_MALLOC_DEBUG
>>>>>> 2 Since that is perhaps not the most usable - though easiest to
>>>>>> implement -
>>>>>>     we can look to add a general debug option (or couple of options) in
>>>>>>     meson, e.g. debug_libs=, debug_drivers=, where each option takes
>>>>>> a list of
>>>>>>     libs or drivers to pass the debug flags to. This will require a
>>>>>> little
>>>>>>     work in the meson build infrastructure, but is not that hard.
>>>>>> The harder
>>>>>>     part is standardizing the debug flags across all components.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The advantage of #1 is that it works today and just needs some
>>>>>> documentation for each lib/driver what it's debug flags are. The
>>>>>> advantage
>>>>>> of #2 is more usability, but it requires a lot more work to
>>>>>> standardize
>>>>>> IMHO.
>>>>> In this case, we need a general option as the one already provided
>>>>> by meson.
>>>>> It means: "I am not in production, I want to see anything behaving
>>>>> wrong
>>>>> in the datapath."
>>>>> "Anything" means we don't need a per-library switch.
>>>>> And for the other needs (out of fast path), we have a new function:
>>>>>      rte_log_can_log(mylogtype, RTE_LOG_DEBUG)
>>>>>
>>>> To use the general option in meson something like below is probably all
>>>> that is needed to flag the debug build to all components:
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/config/meson.build b/config/meson.build
>>>> index 49482091d..b01cd1251 100644
>>>> --- a/config/meson.build
>>>> +++ b/config/meson.build
>>>> @@ -176,6 +176,10 @@ endif
>>>>    # add -include rte_config to cflags
>>>>    add_project_arguments('-include', 'rte_config.h', language: 'c')
>>>>
>>>> +if get_option('debug')
>>>> +       add_project_arguments('-DDEBUG', language: 'c')
>>>> +endif
>>>> +
>>> This will conflict with DEBUG define for log level.
>> Just to be more precise, the log level is defined as RTE_LOG_DEBUG, but
>> in few places you can find something like:
>> #define NTB_LOG(level, fmt, args...) \
>>       rte_log(RTE_LOG_ ## level, ntb_logtype,    "%s(): " fmt "\n", \
>>
>>           __func__, ##args)
>>
>> and usage like this:
>> NTB_LOG(DEBUG, "Link is not up.");
> This is not a conflict.
> The compiler sees only RTE_LOG_DEBUG.
>
> Anyway the right name for the general flag should be RTE_DEBUG.
>
Ok, I'll use RTE_DEBUG.

@Bruce Is it ok, so that I would create a patch for meson.build?
>>> How about adding similar define in library meson.build file? , e.g
>>>
>>> diff --git a/lib/librte_security/meson.build
>>> b/lib/librte_security/meson.build
>>> index 5679c8b5c..ee92483c5 100644
>>> --- a/lib/librte_security/meson.build
>>> +++ b/lib/librte_security/meson.build
>>> @@ -4,3 +4,7 @@
>>>   sources = files('rte_security.c')
>>>   headers = files('rte_security.h', 'rte_security_driver.h')
>>>   deps += ['mempool', 'cryptodev']
>>> +
>>> +if get_option('debug')
>>> + add_project_arguments('-DRTE_LIBRTE_SECURITY_DEBUG', language: 'c')
>>> +endif
> It can work yes.
> But it would be simpler to align on single debug flag.
>
In this set of patches I would only align the security and tests code to 
RTE_DEBUG.
Changes in global configuration to use a single debug flag should be 
done in separate set of patches.
>
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Lukasz Wojciechowski
Principal Software Engineer

Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
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