[dpdk-stable] [PATCH dpdk-dev v2] common/mlx5: fix possible building error

[Tonghao Zhang]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 3:15 PM Matan Azrad <matan at mellanox.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> From: xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com
> > From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
> >
> > When setting the CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB to y, and build the mlx5
> > pmd, there is a building error.
> > To fix it, add RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN to include relative codes.
> >
> > > mlx5_common.o: In function `mlx5_glue_init':
> > > drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.c:324: undefined reference to
> > `dlclose'
> >
> > Fixes: 7b4f1e6bd367 ("common/mlx5: introduce common library")
> > Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
> > Tested-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu at mellanox.com>
>
> The title should point to the root cause - not to the results.
>
> Something like:
>
> common/mlx5: fix dynamic loading reference
>
> >  drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.c | 5 +++--
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.c
> > b/drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.c
> > index 610fb48..570a3f4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.c
> > +++ b/drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_common.c
> > @@ -209,8 +209,6 @@ enum mlx5_class
> >   */
> >  RTE_INIT_PRIO(mlx5_glue_init, CLASS)
> >  {
> > -     void *handle = NULL;
> > -
> >       /* Initialize common log type. */
> >       mlx5_common_logtype = rte_log_register("pmd.common.mlx5");
> >       if (mlx5_common_logtype >= 0)
> > @@ -249,6 +247,7 @@ enum mlx5_class
> >                mlx5_glue_path(glue_path, sizeof(glue_path)) : ""),
> >       };
> >       unsigned int i = 0;
> > +     void *handle = NULL;
> >       void **sym;
> >       const char *dlmsg;
> >
> > @@ -320,8 +319,10 @@ enum mlx5_class
> >       mlx5_glue->fork_init();
> >       return;
> >  glue_error:
> > +#ifdef RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN
> >       if (handle)
> >               dlclose(handle);
> > +#endif
>
>
> What's about " #include <dlfcn.h> " Is it compiled for you?
Yes, still building fail.
> If so, why dlclose is not known on your setup?
When I fixed it, I found the codes in mlx5_glue_init, use the
RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN.
but dlclose is not included in it. I think we should add
RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN to fix the building fail.
>
>
> >       DRV_LOG(WARNING, "Cannot initialize MLX5 common due to
> > missing"
> >               " run-time dependency on rdma-core libraries (libibverbs,"
> >               " libmlx5)");
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
>


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Thanks,
Tonghao