[v3,2/2] eal: use base address hint to reserve space for mem config

Message ID 752b0334b6070d247e4e47ead8e04b09a8c7cc46.1564501879.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Headers
Series [v3,1/2] eal: make base address hint OS-specific |

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Commit Message

Anatoly Burakov July 30, 2019, 3:51 p.m. UTC
  Currently, mem config will be mapped without using the virtual
area reservation infrastructure, which means it will be mapped
at an arbitrary location. This may cause failures to map the
shared config in secondary process due to things like PCI
whitelist arguments allocating memory in a space where the
primary has allocated the shared mem config.

Fix this by using virtual area reservation to reserve space for
the mem config, thereby avoiding the problem and reserving the
shared config (hopefully) far away from any normal memory
allocations.

Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---

Notes:
    v3:
    - Fix alignment issues with base address
    
    v2:
    - Fix issue with unneeded ADDR_IS_HINT flag that broke things
      on 32-bit builds

 lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal/eal.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c   | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal/eal.c
index d53f0fe69..5d2e147b1 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/freebsd/eal/eal.c
@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@  eal_parse_sysfs_value(const char *filename, unsigned long *val)
 static int
 rte_eal_config_create(void)
 {
-	void *rte_mem_cfg_addr;
+	size_t cfg_len = sizeof(*rte_config.mem_config);
+	void *rte_mem_cfg_addr, *mapped_mem_cfg_addr;
 	int retval;
 
 	const char *pathname = eal_runtime_config_path();
@@ -236,7 +237,7 @@  rte_eal_config_create(void)
 		}
 	}
 
-	retval = ftruncate(mem_cfg_fd, sizeof(*rte_config.mem_config));
+	retval = ftruncate(mem_cfg_fd, cfg_len);
 	if (retval < 0){
 		close(mem_cfg_fd);
 		mem_cfg_fd = -1;
@@ -254,15 +255,28 @@  rte_eal_config_create(void)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	rte_mem_cfg_addr = mmap(NULL, sizeof(*rte_config.mem_config),
-				PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, mem_cfg_fd, 0);
-
-	if (rte_mem_cfg_addr == MAP_FAILED){
+	/* reserve space for config */
+	rte_mem_cfg_addr = eal_get_virtual_area(NULL, &cfg_len,
+			sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE), 0, 0);
+	if (rte_mem_cfg_addr == NULL) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot mmap memory for rte_config\n");
 		close(mem_cfg_fd);
 		mem_cfg_fd = -1;
 		return -1;
 	}
+
+	/* remap the actual file into the space we've just reserved */
+	mapped_mem_cfg_addr = mmap(rte_mem_cfg_addr,
+			cfg_len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED, mem_cfg_fd, 0);
+	if (mapped_mem_cfg_addr == MAP_FAILED) {
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot remap memory for rte_config\n");
+		munmap(rte_mem_cfg_addr, cfg_len);
+		close(mem_cfg_fd);
+		mem_cfg_fd = -1;
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	memcpy(rte_mem_cfg_addr, &early_mem_config, sizeof(early_mem_config));
 	rte_config.mem_config = rte_mem_cfg_addr;
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c
index 34db78753..bfd3bc2da 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal/eal.c
@@ -305,7 +305,8 @@  eal_parse_sysfs_value(const char *filename, unsigned long *val)
 static int
 rte_eal_config_create(void)
 {
-	void *rte_mem_cfg_addr;
+	size_t cfg_len = sizeof(*rte_config.mem_config);
+	void *rte_mem_cfg_addr, *mapped_mem_cfg_addr;
 	int retval;
 
 	const char *pathname = eal_runtime_config_path();
@@ -330,7 +331,7 @@  rte_eal_config_create(void)
 		}
 	}
 
-	retval = ftruncate(mem_cfg_fd, sizeof(*rte_config.mem_config));
+	retval = ftruncate(mem_cfg_fd, cfg_len);
 	if (retval < 0){
 		close(mem_cfg_fd);
 		mem_cfg_fd = -1;
@@ -348,13 +349,25 @@  rte_eal_config_create(void)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	rte_mem_cfg_addr = mmap(rte_mem_cfg_addr, sizeof(*rte_config.mem_config),
-				PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, mem_cfg_fd, 0);
-
-	if (rte_mem_cfg_addr == MAP_FAILED){
-		close(mem_cfg_fd);
-		mem_cfg_fd = -1;
+	/* reserve space for config */
+	rte_mem_cfg_addr = eal_get_virtual_area(rte_mem_cfg_addr, &cfg_len,
+			sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE), 0, 0);
+	if (rte_mem_cfg_addr == NULL) {
 		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot mmap memory for rte_config\n");
+		close(mem_cfg_fd);
+		mem_cfg_fd = -1;
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	/* remap the actual file into the space we've just reserved */
+	mapped_mem_cfg_addr = mmap(rte_mem_cfg_addr,
+			cfg_len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+			MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED, mem_cfg_fd, 0);
+	if (mapped_mem_cfg_addr == MAP_FAILED) {
+		munmap(rte_mem_cfg_addr, cfg_len);
+		close(mem_cfg_fd);
+		mem_cfg_fd = -1;
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot remap memory for rte_config\n");
 		return -1;
 	}