On Thu, 5 May 2022 19:30:01 +0200 Stanislaw Kardach <[email protected]> wrote:
> When compiling for RISC-V in debug mode the large amount of inlining in > test_ring_basic_ex() and test_ring_with_exact_size() (in test_ring.c) > leads to large loop bodies. This causes 'goto' and 'for' loop > PC-relative jumps generated by the compiler to go beyond the architecture > limitation of +/-1MB offset (the 'j <offset>' instruction). This > instruction should not be generated by the compiler since C language does > not limit the maximum distance for 'goto' or 'for' loop jumps. > > This only happens in the unit test for ring which tries to perform long > loops with ring enqueue/dequeue and it seems to be caused by excessive > __rte_always_inline usage. ring perf test compiles just fine under > debug. > > To work around this, disable the offending tests in debug mode. > > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Kardach <[email protected]> > Sponsored-by: Frank Zhao <[email protected]> > Sponsored-by: Sam Grove <[email protected]> > --- It seems to me that fixing the excessive inlining in the ring code could benefit all architectures, rather than neutering the tests on RISCV.
