[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/1] eal/linux: change hugepage sorting to avoid overlapping memcpy

[Sergio Gonzalez Monroy]

On 07/01/2016 09:51, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy wrote:
> On 07/01/2016 09:33, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy wrote:
>> On 05/01/2016 09:37, Ralf Hoffmann wrote:
>>> with only one hugepage or already sorted hugepage addresses, the sort
>>> function called memcpy with same src and dst pointer. Debugging with
>>> valgrind will issue a warning about overlapping area. This patch
>>> changes the sort method to qsort to avoid this behavior, according to
>>> original patch from Jay Rolette <rolette at infiniteio.com>. The separate
>>> sort function is no longer necessary.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ralf Hoffmann <ralf.hoffmann at allegro-packets.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>> Acked-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com>
> Forgot to mention that there is a checkpatch warning:
> WARNING:LONG_LINE: line over 90 characters
> #113: FILE: lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c:1167:
> +               qsort(&tmp_hp[hp_offset], hpi->num_pages[0], 
> sizeof(struct hugepage_file), cmp_physaddr);
>
> Could you fix that Ralf?
>
> Thanks,
> Sergio

Just FYI, there is a new DPDK Contributors guide:
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/patches.html

Regards,
Sergio