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 <dwil...@us.ibm.com> > Reviewed-by: Pradeep Satyanarayana <prad...@us.ibm.com>
Applied, thanks Note: Cc sta...@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.
