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eal: fix data race in multi-process support
If DPDK is built with thread sanitizer it reports a race in setting of multiprocess file descriptor. The fix is to use atomic operations when updating mp_fd. Build: $ meson -Db_sanitize=address build $ ninja -C build Simple example: $ .build/app/dpdk-testpmd -l 1-3 --no-huge EAL: Detected CPU lcores: 16 EAL: Detected NUMA nodes: 1 EAL: Static memory layout is selected, amount of reserved memory can be adjusted with -m or --socket-mem EAL: Detected static linkage of DPDK EAL: Multi-process socket /run/user/1000/dpdk/rte/mp_socket EAL: Selected IOVA mode 'VA' testpmd: No probed ethernet devices testpmd: create a new mbuf pool <mb_pool_0>: n=163456, size=2176, socket=0 testpmd: preferred mempool ops selected: ring_mp_mc EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 Cause: Creation of mbuf pool for socket 0 failed: Cannot allocate memory ================== WARNING: ThreadSanitizer: data race (pid=87245) Write of size 4 at 0x558e04d8ff70 by main thread: #0 rte_mp_channel_cleanup <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e7d30c) #1 rte_eal_cleanup <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e85929) #2 rte_exit <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e5bc0a) #3 mbuf_pool_create.cold <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x274011) #4 main <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x5cc15d) Previous read of size 4 at 0x558e04d8ff70 by thread T2: #0 mp_handle <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e7c439) #1 ctrl_thread_init <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e6ee1e) As if synchronized via sleep: #0 nanosleep libsanitizer/tsan/tsan_interceptors_posix.cpp:366 #1 get_tsc_freq <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e92ff9) #2 set_tsc_freq <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e6f2fc) #3 rte_eal_timer_init <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e931a4) #4 rte_eal_init.cold <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x29e578) #5 main <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x5cbc45) Location is global 'mp_fd' of size 4 at 0x558e04d8ff70 (dpdk-testpmd+0x000003122f70) Thread T2 'rte_mp_handle' (tid=87248, running) created by main thread at: #0 pthread_create libsanitizer/tsan/tsan_interceptors_posix.cpp:969 #1 rte_ctrl_thread_create <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e6efd0) #2 rte_mp_channel_init.cold <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x29cb7c) #3 rte_eal_init <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x1e8662e) #4 main <null> (dpdk-testpmd+0x5cbc45) SUMMARY: ThreadSanitizer: data race (app/dpdk-testpmd+0x1e7d30c) in rte_mp_channel_cleanup ================== ThreadSanitizer: reported 1 warnings Fixes: bacaa27 ("eal: add channel for multi-process communication") Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Chengwen Feng <[email protected]>
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