Hi

I have a situation where in some scenarios when VPP is restarted after a crash, 
the VPP which is coming up itself crashes with the following backtrace.
This does not happen always. Any hints on what could cause this would be 
appreciated.

Backtrace

(gdb) bt
#0  0x00002b688139c207 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00002b688139d8f8 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2  0x0000000000405f7e in os_exit (code=code@entry=1) at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/vpp/vnet/main.c:292
#3  0x00002b687f4b09d7 in unix_signal_handler (signum=<optimized out>, 
si=<optimized out>, uc=<optimized out>)
    at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/vlib/unix/main.c:120
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  rte_mempool_populate_iova_tab (mp=mp@entry=0x1098fbec0, 
vaddr=0x2aaaaac00000 "", iova=0x0, pg_num=<optimized out>, pg_shift=<optimized 
out>, free_cb=free_cb@entry=0x0, opaque=opaque@entry=0x0)
    at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-root/build-vpp-native/dpdk/dpdk-stable-17.11.4/lib/librte_mempool/rte_mempool.c:486
#6  0x00002b6b0212a373 in dpdk_pool_create (vm=vm@entry=0x2b687f6cb260 
<vlib_global_main>, pool_name=pool_name@entry=0x2b6883a0d924 
"dpdk_mbuf_pool_socket0", elt_size=elt_size@entry=2432, 
num_elts=num_elts@entry=500000,
    pool_priv_size=pool_priv_size@entry=6, cache_size=cache_size@entry=512, 
numa=numa@entry=0 '\000', _mp=_mp@entry=0x2b6884266c68, 
pri=pri@entry=0x2b6884266c5f "")
    at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/plugins/dpdk/buffer.c:498
#7  0x00002b6b0212a470 in dpdk_buffer_pool_create (vm=vm@entry=0x2b687f6cb260 
<vlib_global_main>, num_mbufs=500000, socket_id=0)
    at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/plugins/dpdk/buffer.c:537
#8  0x00002b6b02144861 in dpdk_config (vm=<optimized out>, input=<optimized 
out>)
    at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/plugins/dpdk/device/init.c:1288
#9  0x00002b687f4715ad in vlib_call_all_config_functions (vm=<optimized out>, 
input=input@entry=0x2b6884266fa0, is_early=is_early@entry=0)
    at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/vlib/init.c:146
#10 0x00002b687f479908 in vlib_main (vm=vm@entry=0x2b687f6cb260 
<vlib_global_main>, input=input@entry=0x2b6884266fa0)
    at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/vlib/main.c:1772
#11 0x00002b687f4b0b23 in thread0 (arg=47727814423136) at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/vlib/unix/main.c:567
#12 0x00002b68807e38b8 in clib_calljmp () at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/vppinfra/longjmp.S:110
#13 0x00007ffe03c4a0e0 in ?? ()
#14 0x00002b687f4b187f in vlib_unix_main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized 
out>) at 
/bfs-build/build-area.49/builds/LinuxNBngp_7.X_RH7/2018-11-16-0505/third-party/vpp/vpp_1801/build-data/../src/vlib/unix/main.c:631
#15 0x6f2d326c00000028 in ?? ()
#16 0x6c632d7475707475 in ?? ()
#17 0x4c20796669737361 in ?? ()
#18 0x697373616c432032 in ?? ()
#19 0x73706f7244207966 in ?? ()
#20 0x000000006425203a in ?? ()
#21 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()


VPP version: 18.01

After analysing back-trace, it is observed that in 
rte_mempool_populate_iova_tab iova address is NULL which is called by 
dpdk_pool_create passing pr->page_table addr as iova address.
pr : vlib_physmem_region_t *pr;
Before calling rte_mempool_populate_iova_tab, vlib_physmem_region_alloc is 
called which internally calls vm->os_physmem_region_alloc.

vm->os_physmem_region_alloc  is mapped to unix_physmem_region_alloc.
So in unix_physmem_region_alloc,
pr->page_table = clib_mem_vm_get_paddr (pr->mem, pr->log2_page_size, 
pr->n_pages);
Looks like clib_mem_vm_get_paddr is returning NULL to page table address.

Code for clib_mem_vm_get_paddr function
u64 *
clib_mem_vm_get_paddr (void *mem, int log2_page_size, int n_pages)
{
  int pagesize = sysconf (_SC_PAGESIZE);
  int fd;
  int i;
  u64 *r = 0;

  if ((fd = open ((char *) "/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY)) == -1)
    return 0;

  for (i = 0; i < n_pages; i++)
    {
      u64 seek, pagemap = 0;
      uword vaddr = pointer_to_uword (mem) + (((u64) i) << log2_page_size);
      seek = ((u64) vaddr / pagesize) * sizeof (u64);
      if (lseek (fd, seek, SEEK_SET) != seek)
        goto done;

      if (read (fd, &pagemap, sizeof (pagemap)) != (sizeof (pagemap)))
        goto done;

      if ((pagemap & (1ULL << 63)) == 0)
        goto done;

      pagemap &= pow2_mask (55);
      vec_add1 (r, pagemap * pagesize);
    }

done:
  close (fd);
  if (vec_len (r) != n_pages)
    {
      vec_free (r);
      return 0;
    }
  return r;
}

So why this could be returning NULL.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Alok

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