doc: add PMD known issue

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Delegated to: Qi Zhang
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Commit Message

Mingjin Ye April 20, 2023, 6:43 a.m. UTC
  Add a known issue: ASLR feature causes core dump.

Signed-off-by: Mingjin Ye <mingjinx.ye@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
  

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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
index b1d77ab7ab..459d0d8380 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/ixgbe.rst
@@ -461,3 +461,18 @@  show bypass config
 Show the bypass configuration for a bypass enabled NIC using the lowest port on the NIC::
 
    testpmd> show bypass config (port_id)
+
+ASLR feature causes core dump
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Core dump may occur when we start secondary processes on the vf port.
+Mainstream Linux distributions have the ASLR feature enabled by default,
+and the text segment of the process memory space is randomized.
+The secondary process calls the function address shared by the primary
+process, resulting in a core dump.
+
+   .. Note::
+
+	  Support for ASLR features varies by distribution. Redhat and
+	  Centos series distributions work fine. Ubuntu distributions
+	  will core dump, other Linux distributions are unknown.