On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:21:09 -0500 Peng Zhihong <zhihongx.p...@intel.com> wrote:
> 1. The debugging log in current DPDK RTE_MALLOC_DEBUG mode is insufficient, > which makes it difficult to locate the issues, such as: > a) When a memeory overlflow occur in rte_free, there is a little log > information. Even if abort here, we can find which API is core > dumped but we still need to read the source code to find out where > the requested memory is overflowed. > b) Current DPDK can NOT find that the overflow if the memory has been > used and not released. > c) If there are two pieces of continuous memory, when the first block > is not released and an overflow is occured and also the second block > of memory is covered, a memory overflow will be detected once the second > block of memory is released. However, current DPDK can not find the > correct point of memory overflow. It only detect the memory overflow > of the second block but should dedect the one of first block. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | header cookie | data1 | trailer cookie | header cookie | data2 > |trailer cookie | > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2. To fix above issues, we can store the requested information When DPDK > request memory. Including the requested address and requested momory's > file, function and numbers of rows and then put it into a list. > -------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------- > | struct list_head |---->| struct malloc_info |---->| struct malloc_info | > -------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------- > The above 3 problems can be solved through this implementation: > a) If there is a memory overflow in rte_free, you can traverse the > list to find the information of overflow memory and print the > overflow memory information. like this: > code: > 37 char *p = rte_zmalloc(NULL, 64, 0); > 38 memset(p, 0, 65); > 39 rte_free(p); > 40 //rte_malloc_validate_all_memory(); > memory error: > EAL: Error: Invalid memory > malloc memory address 0x17ff2c340 overflow in \ > file:../examples/helloworld/main.c function:main line:37 > b)c) Provide a interface to check all memory overflow in function > rte_malloc_validate_all_memory, this function will check all > memory on the list. Call this funcation manually at the exit > point of business logic, we can find all overflow points in time. > > Signed-off-by: Peng Zhihong <zhihongx.p...@intel.com> Good concept, but doesn't this add significant overhead? Maybe we could make rte_malloc work with existing address sanitizer infrastructure in gcc/clang? That would provide faster and more immediate better diagnostic info.
