2015-06-24 10:33, Simon Kagstrom: > Newer kernels make this unreadable for security reasons for non-roots. > Running the application will then fill the logs with > > rte_mem_virt2phy: cannot open /proc/self/pagemap > > messages. > > However, there are cases when DPDK is and should be run as non-root, > without the need for virtual-to-physical address translations: a > typical example is when working with PCAP input/output. This patch > adds a start-time check for /proc/self/pagemap readability, and > directly returns an error code from rte_mem_virt2phy(). > > This way, there is only a one-time warning at startup instead of > constant warnings all the time. > > Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net> > Signed-off-by: Johan Faltstrom <johan.faltstrom at netinsight.net>
Applied, thanks
