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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3] mem: Fix anonymous mapping
	on Power9.
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16/11/2018 18:35, David Wilder:
> Removed the use of MAP_HUGETLB for anonymous mapping on ppc64.  The
> MAP_HUGETLB had previously been added to workaround issues on IBM Power8
> systems when mapping /dev/zero (see: commit
> 284ae3e9ff9a92575c28c858efd2c85c8de6d440).  In the current code the
> MAP_HUGETLB flag will cause the anonymous mapping to fail on Power9.
> Note, Power8 is currently failing to correctly mmap Hugepages, with and
> without this change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Pradeep Satyanarayana <pradeep@us.ibm.com>

Applied, thanks

Note: Cc stable@dpdk.org does not make sense in this context.
Backporting this patch to 17.11 would be a mistake,
and 17.08 is probably not in Power9 scope.