[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: use base address hint to reserve space for mem config

[Burakov, Anatoly]

On 29-Jul-19 12:18 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Currently, mem config will be mapped without using the virtual
> area reservation infrastructure, which means it will be mapped
> at an arbitrary location. This may cause failures to map the
> shared config in secondary process due to things like PCI
> whitelist arguments allocating memory in a space where the
> primary has allocated the shared mem config.
> 
> Fix this by using virtual area reservation to reserve space for
> the mem config, thereby avoiding the problem and reserving the
> shared config (hopefully) far away from any normal memory
> allocations.
> 
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
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Apologies for multiple sends, the email appeared to not be getting 
through...

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Thanks,
Anatoly