[PATCH 2/4] bus/pci/bsd: Map resources at EAL baseaddr

Burakov, Anatoly anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Thu May 8 13:31:08 CEST 2025


On 5/6/2025 7:40 PM, Jake Freeland wrote:
> Provide the EAL base address as a hint to mmap(2), so device resources
> are not mapped where malloc(3) et al. make allocations.
> 
> This makes mapping conflicts less likely for secondary processes that
> make memory allocations before initializing EAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jake Freeland <jfree at FreeBSD.org>
> ---

I remember attempting to fix this issue by reserving some amount of 
address space for PCI devices in a similar way memory subsystem reserves 
its address space. This doesn't quite do that but is as good a fix as it 
can get without major rework IMO.

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly


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