On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 15:11:32 +0530 Kumaraparameshwaran Rathnavel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > We have been using the mempool of the DPDK for our application. Whenever > there is a core dump and if I try to print the contents of the pointer > allocated from rte_malloc gdb is throwing an error saying cannot access the > memory at address. During run time this is working fine . This happens only > when examining a core. I replaced rte_mallloc with malloc and in this case I > am able to print the contents of the pointer. I have built DPDK with -g > option. Am I doing anything wrong here? > > Thanking You, > Param. That is probably intentional. Core dumps don't dump huge page memory (to save space). A 16G core file would not work well. Also hugepages are shared between multiple processes.
