On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 01:32:50PM +0200, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 5/6/2025 7:40 PM, Jake Freeland wrote:
> > When mapping PCI resources in secondary processes, use the
> > RTE_MAP_FORCE_ADDRESS_NOREPLACE flag to indicate that the
> > mapping must be made at the provided address.
> >
> > Without this flag, the kernel might return a different address for
> > the mapping, even if the requested region was available.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jake Freeland <jf...@freebsd.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/bus/pci/pci_common_uio.c | 4 +++-
> > lib/eal/common/eal_private.h | 7 ++++++-
> > lib/eal/include/rte_eal_paging.h | 7 ++++++-
> > lib/eal/unix/eal_unix_memory.c | 8 +++++++-
> > 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/bus/pci/pci_common_uio.c
> > b/drivers/bus/pci/pci_common_uio.c
> > index 30503bd23a..71974e9f56 100644
> > --- a/drivers/bus/pci/pci_common_uio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/bus/pci/pci_common_uio.c
> > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> > #include <sys/mman.h>
> > #include <rte_eal.h>
> > +#include <rte_eal_paging.h>
> > #include <rte_pci.h>
> > #include <rte_bus_pci.h>
> > #include <rte_tailq.h>
> > @@ -58,7 +59,8 @@ pci_uio_map_secondary(struct rte_pci_device *dev)
> > void *mapaddr = pci_map_resource(uio_res->maps[i].addr,
> > fd, (off_t)uio_res->maps[i].offset,
> > - (size_t)uio_res->maps[i].size, 0);
> > + (size_t)uio_res->maps[i].size,
> > + RTE_MAP_FORCE_ADDRESS_NOREPLACE);
> > /* fd is not needed in secondary process, close it */
> > close(fd);
> > diff --git a/lib/eal/common/eal_private.h b/lib/eal/common/eal_private.h
> > index 04ba8ddb86..aaeb140eaf 100644
> > --- a/lib/eal/common/eal_private.h
> > +++ b/lib/eal/common/eal_private.h
> > @@ -211,7 +211,12 @@ enum eal_mem_reserve_flags {
> > * @see RTE_MAP_FORCE_ADDRESS for description of possible consequences
> > * (although implementations are not required to use it).
> > */
> > - EAL_RESERVE_FORCE_ADDRESS = 1 << 1
> > + EAL_RESERVE_FORCE_ADDRESS = 1 << 1,
> > + /**
> > + * Force reserving memory at the requested address, but fail if a
> > + * preexisting mapping collides with the request.
> > + */
> > + EAL_RESERVE_FORCE_ADDRESS_NOREPLACE = 1 << 2,
> > };
> > /**
> > diff --git a/lib/eal/include/rte_eal_paging.h
> > b/lib/eal/include/rte_eal_paging.h
> > index c60317d0f5..7b1983b615 100644
> > --- a/lib/eal/include/rte_eal_paging.h
> > +++ b/lib/eal/include/rte_eal_paging.h
> > @@ -34,7 +34,12 @@ enum rte_map_flags {
> > * may remove all other mappings in the requested region. However,
> > * it is not required to do so, thus mapping with this flag may fail.
> > */
> > - RTE_MAP_FORCE_ADDRESS = 1 << 3
> > + RTE_MAP_FORCE_ADDRESS = 1 << 3,
> > + /**
> > + * Force mapping to the requested address, but fail if a preexisting
> > + * mapping collides with the request.
> > + */
> > + RTE_MAP_FORCE_ADDRESS_NOREPLACE = 1 << 4,
> > };
> > /**
> > diff --git a/lib/eal/unix/eal_unix_memory.c b/lib/eal/unix/eal_unix_memory.c
> > index c540f1e838..61e914b8db 100644
> > --- a/lib/eal/unix/eal_unix_memory.c
> > +++ b/lib/eal/unix/eal_unix_memory.c
> > @@ -17,11 +17,13 @@
> > #ifdef RTE_EXEC_ENV_LINUX
> > #define EAL_DONTDUMP MADV_DONTDUMP
> > #define EAL_DODUMP MADV_DODUMP
> > +#define EAL_FIXED_NOREPLACE MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE
>
> Is this available in all supported Linux kernel versions?
>
Checking the mmap man page [1] indicates that this is available from 4.17.
That means that it's both in the oldest supported DPDK kernel (4.19), and
also the kernel version in the oldest supported linux distro, which should
now be RHEL 8, with 4.18 kernel. Therefore the addition of this define
LGTM.
/Bruce
[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mmap.2.html
