[dpdk-dev] [ [PATCH v2] 07/13] linuxapp: eal: arm: Always return 0 for rte_eal_iopl_init()

[Jerin Jacob]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 06:30:26PM +0530, Santosh Shukla wrote:
> iopl() syscall not supported in linux-arm/arm64 so always return 0 value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <sshukla at mvista.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> index 635ec36..2617037 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
> @@ -716,6 +716,9 @@ rte_eal_iopl_init(void)
>  		return -1;
>  	return 0;
>  #else
> +#if defined(RTE_ARCH_ARM) || defined(RTE_ARCH_ARM64)
> +	return 0; /* iopl syscall not supported for ARM/ARM64 */

I guess for other architectures also iopl not supported.I think better
to move this function to eal. Else this function will return 'true' for
ppc64

or have at least postive logic,
#if defined(RTE_ARCH_X86_64) || defined(RTE_ARCH_I686) ||
defined(RTE_ARCH_X86_X32)


> +#endif
>  	return -1;
>  #endif
>  }
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>