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

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