[SPDK] bug in dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c ?

[Ernest Zed <kreuzerkrieg at gmail.com>]

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Hi All,
I've encountered a strange behavior in spdk_mem_register. My code was
running fine in my app until this morning when I transferred it to `clone`d
process, the spdk_mem_register started to fail
in vtophys_get_paddr_pagemap. Maybe it is some `clone` side effect I'm not
aware of (have to admit my Linux knowledge is very limited) but the failure
was a result of rte_mem_virt2phy reading the /proc/self/pagemap file.
The vtophys_get_paddr_pagemap
has a code which checks if the address returned from rte_mem_virt2phy is
zero, then it touches the address just to create physical backing page,
however the rte_mem_virt2phy never return zero so the vtophys_get_paddr_pagemap
never touches the page.
the code in rte_mem_virt2phy as following:
if ((page & 0x7fffffffffffffULL) == 0) <<== Here, my page is 0, should I
touch it to get backing physical page?
return RTE_BAD_IOVA;
when, I guess, it should be something like
if ((page & 0x7fffffffffffffULL) == 0) {
if (page == 0) {
return 0; <<== Return 0, and give vtophys_get_paddr_pagemap a chance to
touch and try to translate it again
} else {
return RTE_BAD_IOVA;
}
}

at least it solved the problem with registering memory using spdk_mem_register.
So far, the code runs as expected.

Sincerely,
Ernest

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