On 11/18/2018 01:41 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 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. >
I think 17.08 is a typo for 18.08? Anyway, I won't backport to 18.08 unless I hear something further. > >
