New upstream version 18.02upstream/18.02

Change-Id: I89ed24cb2a49b78fe5be6970b99dd46c1499fcc3
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
index 34d871c9..9a2fab1e 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
@@ -1,32 +1,5 @@
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 .. _Environment_Abstraction_Layer:
 
@@ -99,6 +72,14 @@ It consist of calls to the pthread library (more specifically, pthread_self(), p
     The creation and initialization functions for these objects are not multi-thread safe.
     However, once initialized, the objects themselves can safely be used in multiple threads simultaneously.
 
+Shutdown and Cleanup
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+During the initialization of EAL resources such as hugepage backed memory can be
+allocated by core components.  The memory allocated during ``rte_eal_init()``
+can be released by calling the ``rte_eal_cleanup()`` function. Refer to the
+API documentation for details.
+
 Multi-process Support
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~