[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/ppc: revert fix mmap for memory initialization

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Nov 7 00:30:51 CET 2017


02/11/2017 14:58, Jonas Pfefferle:
> This reverts commit 284ae3e9ff9a92575c28c858efd2c85c8de6d440
> ("eal/ppc: fix mmap for memory initialization").The logic if the
> address hint is respected on mmap is no different on POWER than
> on x86 however the address layout of userspace applications might
> be slightly different i.e. you might need to use a different
> virt-baseaddr. We now warn if the address hint is not respected
> (fae209f) thus users can try different virtual address bases.

It depends on a patch which is not applied yet.



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