Shared config is shared across primary and secondary processes.
However,when using rte_malloc, the malloc elements keep references to
the heap inside themselves. This heap reference might not be referencing
a local heap because the heap reference points to the heap of whatever
process has allocated that malloc element. Therefore, there can be
situations when malloc elements in a given heap actually reference
different addresses for the same heap - depending on which process has
allocated the element. This can lead to segmentation faults when dealing
with malloc elements allocated on the same heap by different processes.
To fix this problem, heaps will now have the same addresses across
processes. In order to achieve that, a new field in a shared mem_config
(a structure that holds the heaps, and which is shared across processes)
was added to keep the address of where this config is mapped in the
primary process.
Secondary process will now map the config in two stages - first, it'll
map it into an arbitrary address and read the address the primary
process has allocated for the shared config. Then, the config is
unmapped and re-mapped using the address previously read.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
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