2016-07-18 14:15, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy: > On 18/07/2016 12:49, Olivier Matz wrote: > > On 07/18/2016 01:33 PM, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy wrote: > >> On 12/07/2016 12:30, Olivier MATZ wrote: > >>> I think we cannot expect that memory is initialized at 0 when using > >>> Xen dom0. If I add the following (dirty) patch, I don't see a crash > >>> anymore: > >> I don't have a Xen system available right now, but I'm not sure I follow > >> here. > >> Are you saying that when we allocate pages/hugepages from Xen they are > >> not zeroed? > > I did not check it, but from the tests I've done, I suppose they're not. > > If that is the case then I would suggest to zero all memory on EAL init > (only for Xen) so > all memory is zeroed after init for both Linux and Xen. > > What do you think about that?
It is an idea. It is probable that you won't have any answer as the Xen support is unmaintained: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043875.html Feel free to make a patch to try fixing it or we can remove this whole dead code.