Set RTE_PCI_DRV_IOVA_AS_VA in drv_flags. This allows initializing qede PMD as non-root also on Linux v4.x, where /proc/self/pagemap can't be acccessed without CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileges.
The flag was introduced generically but not in pmds in commit: 815c7deaed2d ("pci: get IOMMU class on Linux") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktray...@redhat.com> --- drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c index 518673dce..6b330c2b2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/qede/qede_ethdev.c @@ -2736,5 +2736,6 @@ static int qedevf_eth_dev_pci_remove(struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev) static struct rte_pci_driver rte_qedevf_pmd = { .id_table = pci_id_qedevf_map, - .drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING | RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC, + .drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING |RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC | + RTE_PCI_DRV_IOVA_AS_VA, .probe = qedevf_eth_dev_pci_probe, .remove = qedevf_eth_dev_pci_remove, @@ -2755,5 +2756,6 @@ static int qede_eth_dev_pci_remove(struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev) static struct rte_pci_driver rte_qede_pmd = { .id_table = pci_id_qede_map, - .drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING | RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC, + .drv_flags = RTE_PCI_DRV_NEED_MAPPING | RTE_PCI_DRV_INTR_LSC | + RTE_PCI_DRV_IOVA_AS_VA, .probe = qede_eth_dev_pci_probe, .remove = qede_eth_dev_pci_remove, -- 2.20.1