Cannot start secondary processes anyhow on Redhat EL7

https://dpdk.org/tracker/show_bug.cgi?id=59

            Bug ID: 59
           Summary: Cannot start secondary processes anyhow on Redhat EL7
           Product: DPDK
           Version: 18.02
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: CONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: Normal
         Component: core
          Assignee: [email protected]
          Reporter: [email protected]

Target Milestone: ---

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Core Dump GDB Output

Hi all,

I was using DPDK 2.2.0 on Redhat EL6. It worked with this configuration:

- a tiny process launched the "rte_eal_get_physmem_layout()" function;
- the primary process started with "--base-virtaddr=X" where X is the value returned by the tiny process;
- the secondary process started and attached to the rings and mempools created by the primary process.

Now I downloaded dpdk-18.02.1.tar.xz, recompiled all the processes with the new version, changed some functions for compatibility and ran everything on a Redhat EL7.
ASLR is disabled, but I had the

"WARNING! Base virtual address hint (0x7fff80000000 != 0x7ffefffcd000) not respected!"

messages when starting the primary process, so changed manually the "--base-virtaddr" parameter to avoid these warnings.
After the warnings did not happen any more, when starting the secondary process, it fails with a segfault.

To avoid the warnings, I set the address "0x7ffa3ffcd000"

Inside the core dump attached you can see that address requested by the secondary process is "0x7ffabfd47080" and the gdb says "Cannot access memory at address 0x7ffabfd47080.

The function that generates the error is "rte_ctrlmbuf_alloc()".

I don't know if any other parameter in the kernel/hugepages spaces must be set.

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