[PATCH] doc: add capability to access physical addresses

Dmitry Kozlyuk dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 23:58:02 CET 2023


CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capability is required to access /proc/self/pagemap,
but it was missing from the Linux guide, causing issues for users.

Fixes: 979bb5d493fb ("doc: add more instructions for running as non-root")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
Reported-by: Boris Ouretskey <borisusun at gmail.com>
Reported-by: Isaac Boukris <iboukris at gmail.com>
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Mail threads:
* https://inbox.dpdk.org/users/CAG4AAQ21hn_Ogi0-gfUjXVhtWU19Bk634BT6Ue1bpYZjRXFJjg@mail.gmail.com
* https://inbox.dpdk.org/users/CAC-fF8ShK_n1dhPK2KwV7nRx7535simb=fN77yrZR1+fV2j28A@mail.gmail.com

 doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst
index 829084d80e..b0e123cb7e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/enable_func.rst
@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ Refer to the `documentation <https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlb
 If the driver requires using physical addresses (PA),
 the executable file must be granted additional capabilities:
 
-* ``SYS_ADMIN`` to read ``/proc/self/pagemaps``
+* ``CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE`` and ``SYS_ADMIN`` to read ``/proc/self/pagemaps``
 * ``IPC_LOCK`` to lock hugepages in memory
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-   setcap cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_admin+ep <executable>
+   setcap cap_dac_override,cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_admin+ep <executable>
 
 If physical addresses are not accessible,
 the following message will appear during EAL initialization::
-- 
2.38.1



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