[dpdk-dev] DPDK & ASLR

[Mcnamara, John]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Jon DeVree
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 5:20 AM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK & ASLR
> 
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 15:18:03 -0700, Samir Shah wrote:
> > Does ASLR need to be turned off system-wide, or DPDK-processes wide?
> > Could we use setarch/personality to disable ASLR for just the DPDK
> > process and leave it enabled for the rest of the system? Any
> > experience to say if that would work or not?
> >
> 
> I'm using setarch/personality to disable it only in the processes using
> dpdk without any trouble.

Hi Jon,

That is interesting. Do you have some more details on how to do this. 

Also, It might be worth adding this to the DPDK documentation:

http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/prog_guide/multi_proc_support.html#multi-process-limitations

John