On Mon, 2016-19-09 at 17:31:33 UTC, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" wrote: > For hugetlb to work with 4K page size, we need the MAX_ORDER to be more > than 13. When switching from a 64K page size to 4K linux page size using > make nconfig, we endup with a CONFIG_FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER value of 9. > This results in 16M hugepage to be considered as a gigantic huge page > which inturn can result in failure to setup hugepages if gigantic > hugepage support is not enabled. > > This also results in kernel crash with 4K radix configuration. We > hit the below BUG_ON on radix > > kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:364! > Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] > SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV > Modules linked in: > CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc1-00006-gbae9cc6 #1 > task: c0000000f1af8000 task.stack: c0000000f1aec000 > NIP: c000000000c5fa0c LR: c000000000c5f9d8 CTR: c000000000c5f9a4 > REGS: c0000000f1aef920 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (4.8.0-rc1-00006-gbae9cc6) > MSR: 9000000102029033 <SF,HV,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE,TM[E]> CR: 24000844 > XER: 00000000 > CFAR: c000000000c5f9e0 SOFTE: 1 > ..... > NIP [c000000000c5fa0c] hugepage_init+0x68/0x238 > LR [c000000000c5f9d8] hugepage_init+0x34/0x238 > > Fixes: a7ee539584acf ("powerpc/Kconfig: Update config option based on page > size") > > Reported-by: Santhosh <santh...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks. https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/d5a1e42cb4be016a45a787953d cheers