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From: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
To: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal: Support running as unprivileged user
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:05:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9cef700-7c54-7d28-8396-46953afab48e@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170103225600.51310-1-benjamin.walker@intel.com>

On 03/01/2017 22:56, Ben Walker wrote:
> For Linux kernel 4.0 and newer, the ability to obtain
> physical page frame numbers for unprivileged users from
> /proc/self/pagemap was removed. Instead, when an IOMMU
> is present, simply choose our own DMA addresses instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
> @@ -255,6 +257,22 @@ find_physaddrs(struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl, struct hugepage_info *hpi)
>   }
>   
>   /*
> + * For each hugepage in hugepg_tbl, fill the physaddr value sequentially.
> + */
> +static int
> +set_physaddrs(struct hugepage_file *hugepg_tbl, struct hugepage_info *hpi)
> +{
> +	unsigned int i;
> +	phys_addr_t addr = 0;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < hpi->num_pages[0]; i++) {
> +		hugepg_tbl[i].physaddr = addr;
> +		addr += hugepg_tbl[i].size;
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +

Sorry for late catch, but when having multiple hugepage sizes, both 
would be mapped from address 0.
I thin making the var static should be enough.
Also I would prefer some randomness on the start address instead of 
always 0.

Thanks,
Sergio

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-18 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-03 22:30 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Ben Walker
2017-01-03 22:56 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Ben Walker
2017-01-18 17:05   ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy [this message]
2017-01-31 17:40   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Ben Walker
2017-01-31 17:44     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] " Ben Walker
2017-02-17 14:59       ` Sergio Gonzalez Monroy
2017-03-09 16:10         ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-17 19:28       ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-03-09 16:11         ` Thomas Monjalon

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