Fix vpp crashing when attempting to run in kubernetes Pod

mmap does not fail but writing to mapped memory is causing sigbus.

Change-Id: I5135f32eede67fccb4aaa07a501cd262d254ed8d
Signed-off-by: Artem Belov <artem.belov@xored.com>
Signed-off-by: Ed Warnicke <hagbard@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit f6defa113e2e10a70c5a92ce7e14b7a532154409)

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/vppinfra/pmalloc.c b/src/vppinfra/pmalloc.c
index 9c5f475e8dd..365ee044392 100644
--- a/src/vppinfra/pmalloc.c
+++ b/src/vppinfra/pmalloc.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 #include <linux/mempolicy.h>
 #include <linux/memfd.h>
 
@@ -260,6 +261,7 @@ pmalloc_map_pages (clib_pmalloc_main_t * pm, clib_pmalloc_arena_t * a,
   int old_mpol = -1;
   long unsigned int mask[16] = { 0 };
   long unsigned int old_mask[16] = { 0 };
+  uword page_size = 1 << a->log2_subpage_sz;
   uword size = (uword) n_pages << pm->def_log2_page_sz;
 
   clib_error_free (pm->error);
@@ -332,6 +334,25 @@ pmalloc_map_pages (clib_pmalloc_main_t * pm, clib_pmalloc_arena_t * a,
       goto error;
     }
 
+  /* Check if huge page is not allocated,
+     wrong allocation will generate the SIGBUS */
+  if (a->log2_subpage_sz != pm->sys_log2_page_sz)
+    {
+      for (int i = 0; i < n_pages; i++)
+	{
+	  unsigned char flag;
+	  mincore (va + i * page_size, 1, &flag);
+	  // flag is 1 if the page was successfully allocated and in memory
+	  if (!flag)
+	    {
+	      pm->error =
+		clib_error_return_unix (0,
+					"Unable to fulfill huge page allocation request");
+	      goto error;
+	    }
+	}
+    }
+
   clib_memset (va, 0, size);
 
   rv = set_mempolicy (old_mpol, old_mask, sizeof (old_mask) * 8 + 1);