[SPDK] SPDK v19.10/DPDK v19.05.0 eal_adjust_config issue, Illegal instruction causing application to abort

Hi guys,

I am running SPDK version 19.10 and DPDK version 19.05.0 in my initiator application and I am running into an issue that seems to be sporadic in nature. I am running into this issue, where the application aborts saying Illegal instruction, with Signal 4, SIGILL (code: illegal operand). Issue seems to be more of a library related/EAL config related issue.

I am using the following DPDK EAL parameters in the application. I am also attaching the topmost information from backtrace, as the other things are company confidential.

Starting SPDK v19.10 / DPDK 19.05.0 initialization...
[ DPDK EAL parameters: nvmf --no-shconf -c 0x1 --log-level=lib.eal:6 --log-level=lib.cryptodev:5 --log-level=user1:6 --base-virtaddr=0x200000000000 --match-allocations --file-prefix=spdk_pid40756  ]
*** Aborted at 1587486078 (Unix time, try 'date -d @1587486078') ***
*** Signal 4 (SIGILL) (0x7f2e40ec986d) received by PID 40756 (pthread TID 0x7f2e17fff700) (linux TID 40767) (maybe from PID 1089247341, UID 32558) (code: illegal operand), stack trace: ***
@ 00007f2e3fb2938f (unknown)
@ 00007f2e40ec986d eal_adjust_config -> <wokspace>/spdk/spdk-src/lib/json/json_write.c
@ 00007f2e40eb03a5 rte_eal_init -> <wokspace>/spdk/spdk-src/lib/json/json_write.c
@ 00007f2e40e906e6 spdk_env_init <wokspace>/spdk/spdk-src/lib/env_dpdk/init.c:456

I am trying to debug this issue. But adding -g and -ggdb compilation flags to the cmake list file makes the issue to vanish. Have any of you seen this kind of crash and how should we go about fixing this? Is adding -g and -gdb a workaround or is that the required fix. Is this a DPDK issue or just a gcc issue?

Also here is the system information that I am using
Initiator_system:~$ lscpu
Architecture:            x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):     32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:               Little Endian
CPU(s):                      56
On-line CPU(s) list:    0-55
Thread(s) per core:    2
Core(s) per socket:    14
Socket(s):             2
NUMA node(s):    2
Vendor ID:            GenuineIntel
CPU family:           6
Model:                  79
Model name:        Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
Stepping:              1
CPU MHz:             1236.281
CPU max MHz:     3300.0000
CPU min MHz:      1200.0000
BogoMIPS:            4801.15
Virtualization:        VT-x
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:              32K
L2 cache:               256K
L3 cache:               35840K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-13,28-41
NUMA node1 CPU(s):     14-27,42-55
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch epb intel_pt tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm cqm rdseed adx smap xsaveopt cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local dtherm ida arat pln pts

Kindly keep us posted if you guys have any inputs.

Thanks and Regards,
Prasanna