Re: [PATCH] eal: zero out new added memory

[lic121 <chengtcli@qq.com>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:53:37PM +0000, lic121 wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 01:59:16PM +0300, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> > Thank you for the most detailed info!
> > 
> > 1. If you run the poisoner program the second time,
> >    does it also see dirty memory immediately after mmap()?
> 
> No, running the poisoner program again doesn't show dirty memory
> immediately after mmap.
> 
> I assume that there are some differences on how my poisoner program
> using hugepage and how testpmd using hugepage. I notice that testpmd
> leaves some files under /dev/hugepages/rtemap_xxx even after testpmd
> process exits. But my program didn't create any file under
> /dev/hugepages/.
> > 
> > 2. Kernel 4.19.90-2102 patchlevel 2102 is very high,
> >    can there be any unusual patches applied?
> >    Your host has "compute" in its name,
> >    can it have patches that trade security for performance?
> 
> I may need to talk to the kernel team. Indeed, I failed to reproduce the
> issue on a Virtual Machine of kernel 4.18.0-305.12.1.el8_4.x86_64.(2M
> page size insetad of 1G)

Verified that this issue is caused by an down stream linux kernel issue.
Thanks for your attention.