From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olivier Matz Subject: [PATCH v3 21/35] eal: lock memory when not using hugepages Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:04:42 +0200 Message-ID: <1463569496-31086-22-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> References: <1460629199-32489-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> <1463569496-31086-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, keith.wiles@intel.com To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from proxy.6wind.com (host.76.145.23.62.rev.coltfrance.com [62.23.145.76]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AA391C2 for ; Wed, 18 May 2016 13:05:15 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1463569496-31086-1-git-send-email-olivier.matz@6wind.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Although the physical address won't be correct in memory segment, this allows at least to retrieve the physical address using rte_mem_virt2phy(). Indeed, if the page is not locked, the page may not be present in physical memory. With next commit, it allows a mempool to have properly filled physical addresses when using --no-huge option. Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c index 5b9132c..79d1d2d 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ rte_eal_hugepage_init(void) /* hugetlbfs can be disabled */ if (internal_config.no_hugetlbfs) { addr = mmap(NULL, internal_config.memory, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, - MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0); + MAP_LOCKED | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) { RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "%s: mmap() failed: %s\n", __func__, strerror(errno)); -- 2.8.0.rc3