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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] eal/linux: change hugepage sorting to
	avoid overlapping memcpy
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:13:35 -0800 (PST)
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2016-01-07 15:54, Ralf Hoffmann:
> with only one hugepage or already sorted hugepage addresses, the sort
> function called memcpy with same src and dst pointer. Debugging with
> valgrind will issue a warning about overlapping area. This patch changes
> the sort method to qsort to avoid this behavior. The separate sort
> function is no longer necessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Hoffmann <ralf.hoffmann@allegro-packets.com>
> Acked-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>

Added ref to Jay Rolette and
Applied, thanks