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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: fix mmap failure
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2016 14:47:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4689144.y76TPTqy0y@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467372912-31113-1-git-send-email-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

Thank you Ferruh for taking care of igb_uio.

2016-07-01 12:35, Ferruh Yigit:
> With kernels enabled CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM option mmap the iomem area
> to userspace fails:

Maybe some words are missing.
Please check punctuation of the whole commit message to make it easier
to understand.

> EAL: pci_map_resource():
>          cannot mmap(39, 0x7f1c51800000, 0x100000, 0x0):
>          Invalid argument (0xffffffffffffffff)
> 
> As a workaround igb_uio can stop reserving PCI memory resources, from
> kernel point of view io-memory region looks like idle and mmap works
> again.
> 
> With this update device io-memory range is not protected against any
> other kernel driver claim ownership on those resources, which shouldn't
> be a problem for dpdk usage module.

Why it should not be a problem?
Please could you give an example of what could happen?

This patch fixes a problem with recent kernels (not mentioned above)
which offer the uio_pci_generic alternative.
That's why I think we should fix it only if there is absolutely no
regression for older kernels.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-01 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-01 10:21 [dpdk-dev] Issue with igb_uio in Fedora 24 Mcnamara, John
2016-07-01 10:53 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-01 11:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: fix mmap failure Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-01 12:47     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-07-01 14:39       ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-01 14:54         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-01 15:07     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] igb_uio: fix possible mmap failure for Linux > v4.3 Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-01 15:52       ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2016-07-01 15:54         ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-01 15:59       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] igb_uio: fix possible mmap failure for Linux >= v4.5 Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-05 15:00       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Ferruh Yigit
2016-07-10 13:58         ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-07-02  0:12   ` [dpdk-dev] Issue with igb_uio in Fedora 24 De Lara Guarch, Pablo

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