On 21 Dec 2022, at 13:42, Ilya Maximets wrote:

> On 12/20/22 15:38, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> On 12/20/22 14:14, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 Dec 2022, at 14:06, David Marchand wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 2:01 PM Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> I have problems building this on my fedora35 system with 
>>>>> gcc-11.3.1-3.fc35.x86_64:
>>>>>
>>>>> libtool: link: ( cd "include/openvswitch/.libs" && rm -f "libcxxtest.la" 
>>>>> && ln -s "../libcxxtest.la" "libcxxtest.la" )
>>>>> In file included from lib/netdev-linux-private.h:30,
>>>>>                  from lib/netdev-afxdp.c:19:
>>>>> In function ‘dp_packet_delete’,
>>>>>     inlined from ‘dp_packet_delete’ at lib/dp-packet.h:246:1,
>>>>>     inlined from ‘dp_packet_batch_add__’ at lib/dp-packet.h:775:9,
>>>>>     inlined from ‘dp_packet_batch_add’ at lib/dp-packet.h:783:5,
>>>>>     inlined from ‘netdev_afxdp_rxq_recv’ at lib/netdev-afxdp.c:894:9:
>>>>> lib/dp-packet.h:260:9: error: ‘free’ called on pointer 
>>>>> ‘*umem.xpool.array’ with nonzero offset [8, 2558044588346441168] 
>>>>> [-Werror=free-nonheap-object]
>>>>>   260 |         free(b);
>>>>>       |         ^~~~~~~
>>>>>
>>>>> Guess it does not recognise the (b->source == DPBUF_AFXDP) statement…
>>>>>
>>>>> This is my build config:
>>>>>
>>>>> ./configure --enable-Werror --enable-usdt-probes --localstatedir=/var 
>>>>> --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --enable-afxdp
>>>>>
>>>>> Guess this should be fixed before we enable afxdp by default?
>>>>
>>>> Same for me.
>>>> I have been scratching my head over this report... I wonder if this is
>>>> a compiler bug.
>>>
>>> I guess the compiler does not understand that we will always call 
>>> dp_packet_delete() with the source being DPBUF_AFXDP, and don’t hit the 
>>> free().
>>> Guess we should probably disable the warning in this specific code path.
>>>
>>> //Eelco
>>>
>>
>> Meanwhile I opened a GCC bug:
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108187
>
> So, AFAICT, the issue is that implementation of the dp_packet_use_afxdp()
> is part of a different translation unit (dp-packet.c) and GCC has no access
> to it while processing netdev-afxdp.c, so it doesn't know that packet
> source is set to DPBUF_AFXDP.  Hence the warning.  There are still a few
> misteries around this, e.g. why the issue is not seen with -O0, but they
> will likely not very important.
>
> I don't see a good way to fix that.  We could inline a bunch of functions
> from dp-packet.c, or explicitly set the source to DPBUF_AFXDP somewhere in
> the realm of netdev-afxdp.c module, but I don't think that any of that is
> a good solution.
>
> I'll add a patch to disable the warning with #pragma GCC here around the
> dp_packet_batch_add() call in netdev-afxdp.c for now, unless there are
> better suggestions.  Clang doesn't emit this warning, so we don't need
> to have a workaround for it.

Sound like a good plan to me!


> Best regards, Ilya Maximets.

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