[dpdk-dev] [PATCHv2] linuxapp eal: set fd to -1 for MAP_ANONYMOUS cases

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Thu Apr 12 14:05:12 CEST 2018


On 12-Apr-18 12:16 PM, Neil Horman wrote:
> https://dpdk.org/tracker/show_bug.cgi?id=18
> 
> Indicated that several mmap call sites in the [linux|bsd]app eal code
> set fd that was not -1 in their calls while using MAP_ANONYMOUS.  While
> probably not a huge deal, the man page does say the fd should be -1 for
> portability, as some implementations don't ignore fd as they should for
> MAP_ANONYMOUS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> CC: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> CC: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> 
> ---
> Change notes
> 
> v2) Rebased to HEAD again to adjust for patches that landed ahead of
> this
> ---

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly


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