New upstream version 18.11.1

Change-Id: Ic52e74a9ed6f3ae06acea4a27357bd7153efc2a3
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h
index 7249e6aa..54a12467 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/rte_malloc.h
@@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ rte_malloc_validate(const void *ptr, size_t *size);
 /**
  * Get heap statistics for the specified heap.
  *
+ * @note This function is not thread-safe with respect to
+ *    ``rte_malloc_heap_create()``/``rte_malloc_heap_destroy()`` functions.
+ *
  * @param socket
  *   An unsigned integer specifying the socket to get heap statistics for
  * @param socket_stats
@@ -282,9 +285,9 @@ rte_malloc_get_socket_stats(int socket,
  * @param heap_name
  *   Name of the heap to add memory chunk to
  * @param va_addr
- *   Start of virtual area to add to the heap
+ *   Start of virtual area to add to the heap. Must be aligned by ``page_sz``.
  * @param len
- *   Length of virtual area to add to the heap
+ *   Length of virtual area to add to the heap. Must be aligned by ``page_sz``.
  * @param iova_addrs
  *   Array of page IOVA addresses corresponding to each page in this memory
  *   area. Can be NULL, in which case page IOVA addresses will be set to
@@ -461,6 +464,9 @@ rte_malloc_heap_socket_is_external(int socket_id);
  * Dump for the specified type to a file. If the type argument is
  * NULL, all memory types will be dumped.
  *
+ * @note This function is not thread-safe with respect to
+ *    ``rte_malloc_heap_create()``/``rte_malloc_heap_destroy()`` functions.
+ *
  * @param f
  *   A pointer to a file for output
  * @param type
@@ -473,6 +479,9 @@ rte_malloc_dump_stats(FILE *f, const char *type);
 /**
  * Dump contents of all malloc heaps to a file.
  *
+ * @note This function is not thread-safe with respect to
+ *    ``rte_malloc_heap_create()``/``rte_malloc_heap_destroy()`` functions.
+ *
  * @param f
  *   A pointer to a file for output
  */