Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3 1/2] memalloc: do not leave unmapped holes in EAL virtual memory area

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

01/06/2018 17:06, Burakov, Anatoly:
> On 01-Jun-18 1:59 PM, Dariusz Stojaczyk wrote:
> > EAL reserves a huge area in virtual address space
> > to provide virtual address contiguity for e.g.
> > future memory extensions (memory hotplug). During
> > memory hotplug, if the hugepage mmap succeeds but
> > doesn't suffice EAL's requiriments, the EAL would
> > unmap this mapping straight away, leaving a hole in
> > its virtual memory area and making it available
> > to everyone. As EAL still thinks it owns the entire
> > region, it may try to mmap it later with MAP_FIXED,
> > possibly overriding a user's mapping that was made
> > in the meantime.
> > 
> > This patch ensures each hole is mapped back by EAL,
> > so that it won't be available to anyone else.
> > 
> > Changes from v2:
> >    * replaced rte_panic() with a CRIT log.
> >    * added "git fixline" tags
> > 
> > Changes from v1:
> >   * checkpatch fixes
> > 
> > Fixes: 582bed1e1d1d ("mem: support mapping hugepages at runtime")
> > 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>
> 
> Thomas, could you please fix the commit message on apply?

Yes

Applied, thanks