Re: [PATCH] memory: do not use base-virtaddr in secondary processes

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

19/06/2018 11:21, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 18-Jun-18 8:53 PM, Dariusz Stojaczyk wrote:
> > Since secondary process' address space is highly dictated
> > by the primary process' mappings, it doesn't make much
> > sense to use base-virtaddr for secondary processes.
> > 
> > This patch is intended to fix PCI resource mapping
> > in secondary processes using the same base-virtaddr
> > as their primary processes. PCI uses the end of the hugepage
> > memory area to map all resources. [pci_find_max_end_va()]
> > It works for primary processes, but can't be mapped 1:1
> > by secondary ones, as the same addresses are currently always
> > occupied by shadow memseg lists, which were created with
> > eal_get_virtual_area(NULL, ...).
> > 
> > ```
> > PRIMARY PROCESS
> > 0x6e00e00000    388K rw-s- fbarray_memseg-2048k-1-3
> > 0x6e01000000 16777216K r----   [ anon ]
> > 0x7201000000     16K rw-s- resource0
> > 
> > SECONDARY PROCESS
> > 0x6e00e00000    388K rw-s- fbarray_memseg-2048k-1-3
> > 0x6e01000000 16777216K r----   [ anon ]
> > 0x7201000000      4K rw-s- fbarray_memseg-1048576k-0-0_203213
> > ```
> > 
> > Fixes: 524e43c2ad9a ("mem: prepare memseg lists for multiprocess sync")
> > Cc: anatoly.burakov@intel.com
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dariusz Stojaczyk <dariuszx.stojaczyk@intel.com>
> > ---
> 
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

Applied, thanks