From the core dump:

(gdb) p dev->data
$3 = (struct rte_eth_dev_data *) 0x7f8f7ffb9f90
(gdb) p *dev->data
Cannot access memory at address 0x7f8f7ffb9f90

(gdb) info proc mappings
Mapped address spaces:

          Start Addr           End Addr       Size     Offset objfile
      0x5646f10e3000     0x5646f1544000   0x461000        0x0 /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
      0x5646f1743000     0x5646f1760000    0x1d000   0x460000 /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
      0x5646f1760000     0x5646f17a3000    0x43000   0x47d000 /usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd
      0x7f8e80000000     0x7f8ec0000000 0x40000000        0x0 /dev/hugepages/rtemap_7
      0x7f8ec0000000     0x7f8f00000000 0x40000000        0x0 /dev/hugepages/rtemap_6
      0x7f8f00000000     0x7f8f40000000 0x40000000        0x0 /dev/hugepages/rtemap_5
      0x7f8f40000000     0x7f8f80000000 0x40000000        0x0 /dev/hugepages/rtemap_4

The memory accessed is huge page memory, which is not included in the core
dumps, as DPDK allocates it as shared.

# cat /proc/$(pgrep ovs-vswitchd)/maps | grep rtemap
7f70c0000000-7f7100000000 rw-s 00000000 00:24 7276557                    /dev/hugepages/rtemap_7
7f7100000000-7f7140000000 rw-s 00000000 00:24 7276556                    /dev/hugepages/rtemap_6
7f7140000000-7f7180000000 rw-s 00000000 00:24 7276555                    /dev/hugepages/rtemap_5
7f7180000000-7f71c0000000 rw-s 00000000 00:24 7276554                    /dev/hugepages/rtemap_4
7f7500000000-7f7540000000 rw-s 00000000 00:24 7276553                    /dev/hugepages/rtemap_3
7f7540000000-7f7580000000 rw-s 00000000 00:24 7276552                    /dev/hugepages/rtemap_2
7f7580000000-7f75c0000000 rw-s 00000000 00:24 7276551                    /dev/hugepages/rtemap_1
7f75c0000000-7f7600000000 rw-s 00000000 00:24 7225873                    /dev/hugepages/rtemap_0

To include it in the next core dump you need to adjust the core dump flags in
/proc/<pid>/coredump_filter.

[root@netqe8 ~]# cat /proc/$(pgrep ovs-vswitchd)/coredump_filter
00000033
[root@netqe8 ~]# echo 0x73 > /proc/$(pgrep ovs-vswitchd)/coredump_filter
[root@netqe8 ~]# cat /proc/$(pgrep ovs-vswitchd)/coredump_filter
00000073


Without the full memory dump it's even harder to see what data was corrupted.
But it looks like some data passed to the driver:

int16_t nb_rx = (*dev->rx_pkt_burst)(dev->data->rx_queues[queue_id],                                                                             
                rx_pkts, nb_pkts);

So dev->data->rx_queues[queue_id]  -> queue_id = 0

(gdb) p *dev
$2 = {rx_pkt_burst = 0x5646f1275db0 <nfp_net_recv_pkts>, tx_pkt_burst = 0x5646f1276fa0 <nfp_net_xmit_pkts>, tx_pkt_prepare = 0x0, data = 0x7f8f7ffb9f90, dev_ops = 0x5646f174ff40 <nfp_net_eth_dev_ops>, device = 0x5646f304f0d0, 
  intr_handle =	0x5646f304f1a8,	link_intr_cbs = {tqh_first = 0x0, tqh_last = 0x5646f1a6f1b8 <rte_eth_devices+33080>}, post_rx_burst_cbs = {0x0 <repeats 1024 times>}, pre_tx_burst_cbs = {0x0 <repeats 1024 times>}, 
  state = RTE_ETH_DEV_ATTACHED,	security_ctx = 0x0}



Please find a reproducer with saving shared hugepages enabled.
You might need to add coredump_filter=0x73 to the kernel command line.

Thanks for the bug report. BZ 1558567 could potentially explain this. How is OVS configuring the PMD? Are jumbo frames involved.

Pablo it looks like this issue is related to enabling the jumbo framing. However, it still should not crash. 

The odd thing it will only crash the first start after the configuration, not at any subsequent restart:

$ ovs-vsctl set Interface dpdk0 mtu_request=1500
$ systemctl restart openvswitch

>> Here we are running fine...

$ ovs-vsctl set Interface dpdk0 mtu_request=4600
$ systemctl stop openvswitch
$ systemctl start openvswitch

Now it will crash and create a core dump...

$ systemctl restart openvswitch
$ systemctl restart openvswitch
$ systemctl restart openvswitch
...
...

No more crashes or core dump :(

NOTE: This is all with traffic being sent towards the card!



In the sigterm case we see driver has data not been initialized:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7f2ba57fa700 (LWP 8765)]
0x00005591bde708a4 in rte_eth_rx_burst (nb_pkts=32, rx_pkts=0x7f2ba57f9770, 
    queue_id=0, port_id=0)
    at /usr/src/debug/openvswitch-2.9.0/dpdk-17.11/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_ethdev.h:2897
2897		int16_t nb_rx = (*dev->rx_pkt_burst)(dev->data->rx_queues[queue_id],
(gdb) p dev->data->rx_queues
$1 = (void **) 0x0


In the restart after the crash its the same:

(gdb) p *rte_eth_devices[0]->data->rx_queues
Cannot access memory at address 0x0


Guess it's the poll list in OVS which is setup incorrect but only for the first restart after the configuration change...

Working:

(gdb) p poll_cnt
$1 = <optimized out>
(gdb) p poll_list[0]
$2 = {rxq = 0x5579894ece50, port_no = 1}
(gdb) p poll_list[1]
$3 = {rxq = 0x20, port_no = 37}


Crashing case:


(gdb) p poll_cnt
$8 = <optimized out>
(gdb) p poll_list[0]
$9 = {rxq = 0x5646ada61ac0, port_no = 1}
(gdb) p poll_list[1]
$10 = {rxq = 0x5646ad99d010, port_no = 3}


So in the crashing case, both drivers are added to the list of drivers to pull.

Why?

Hi Eelco,

Yes, I did change mtu size for a dpdk interface from 1500 to 9000. Then, after restart, ovs-vswitchd crashed. 

Thanks!
Jean

Here is my exact reproduction based on the command line history.

1. OVS-dpdk geneve tunnelling working with dpdk0 mtu=1500
2. [root@netqe7 jhsiao]# ovs-vsctl set interface dpdk0 mtu_request=9000
3. ping failed to work from both sides
4. On netqe7, "systemctl restart openvswitch"; But, failed, started to get cores

[root@netqe7 jhsiao]# systemctl restart openvswitch
A dependency job for openvswitch.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details.
 
Apr 20 09:44:24 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com ovs-vswitchd[12379]: ovs|00065|netdev_dpdk|ERR|Interface dpdk0(rxq:1 txq:3) configure
Apr 20 09:44:24 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com ovs-vswitchd[12379]: ovs|00066|dpif_netdev|ERR|Failed to set interface dpdk0 new conf
Apr 20 09:44:24 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com ovs-vswitchd[12379]: ovs|00073|dpdk|ERR|VHOST_CONFIG: failed to bind to /var/run/open
Apr 20 09:44:24 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com ovs-vswitchd[12379]: ovs|00074|netdev_dpdk|ERR|rte_vhost_driver_start failed for vhos
Apr 20 09:44:25 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com kernel: pmd54[12469]: segfault at 0 ip 0000561797fa08a4 sp 00007fa8497f16e0 error 4 i
Apr 20 09:44:25 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com ovs-vswitchd[12378]: ovs|00002|daemon_unix|ERR|fork child died before signaling start
Apr 20 09:44:25 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com ovs-vswitchd[12378]: ovs|00003|daemon_unix|EMER|could not detach from foreground sess
Apr 20 09:44:25 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com ovs-ctl[12351]: Starting ovs-vswitchd ovs-vswitchd: could not detach from foreground 
Apr 20 09:44:25 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com ovs-ctl[12351]: [FAILED]
Apr 20 09:44:25 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com systemd[1]: ovs-vswitchd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 20 09:44:25 netqe7.knqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Open vSwitch Forwarding Unit.
-- Subject: Unit ovs-vswitchd.service has failed

5. Core dumping continued until "systemctl stop openvswitch".

[root@netqe7 jhsiao]# ll /core.*
-rw-------. 1 root root 233848832 Apr 20 09:43 /core.12022
-rw-------. 1 root root 233906176 Apr 20 09:43 /core.12141
-rw-------. 1 root root 233902080 Apr 20 09:44 /core.12259
-rw-------. 1 root root 233902080 Apr 20 09:44 /core.12379
-rw-------. 1 root root 233902080 Apr 20 09:44 /core.12506
-rw-------. 1 root root 233873408 Apr 20 09:44 /core.12626
-rw-------. 1 root root 233902080 Apr 20 09:45 /core.12744
-rw-------. 1 root root 233902080 Apr 20 09:45 /core.12864
-rw-------. 1 root root 233902080 Apr 20 09:45 /core.12991
-rw-------. 1 root root 233902080 Apr 20 09:46 /core.13109

Created attachment 1424523 [details]
ovs-vswitchd.log from restart to stop

A complete log from "systemctl restart openvswitch" to "systemctl stop openvswitch"

This issue is not NFP driver related, but a general OVS infrastructure problem. I've sent the following patch upstream:

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2018-April/346480.html

Thanks Eelco for fixing this. Glad to see this is not NFP related. 

FWIW was able to replicate the issue quite straightforward with no patches. With the fix for BZ 1558567 (V3 in the OVS mailing list) can't seem to replicate even after a few  iterations of ovs restart. Perhaps the bug you are fixing let the other bug happen? Will try with your patch applied as well and report back here

Your fix helps here, thanks Eelco

Send out v2 patch upstream:

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2018-May/347005.html

The cause of the crash has been fixed by 2.9.0-41, BZ1578324.

The root cause, due to invalid failure handling has been committed to master, and backported to 2.8 and 2.9. 

https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commi/606f665072507497e663e41478a6b902fec416ac

This will be picked up when we re-align our FDP to 2.9.2