We don't support allocating them runtime. Only supported mechanism as of now is HMC based hypervisor interface. So disable 16G hugetlb on powernv platform
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- May be this should go to -stable ?. To show the 16G pagesize in /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/ confuse users arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c index e1bf5ca397fe..28ea94da0707 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include <asm/tlb.h> #include <asm/setup.h> #include <asm/hugetlb.h> +#include <asm/machdep.h> #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE @@ -749,7 +750,8 @@ static int __init add_huge_page_size(unsigned long long size) return -EINVAL; } } else { - if (mmu_psize != MMU_PAGE_16M && mmu_psize != MMU_PAGE_16G) + if ((mmu_psize != MMU_PAGE_16M && mmu_psize != MMU_PAGE_16G) + || (mmu_psize == MMU_PAGE_16G && machine_is(powernv))) return -EINVAL; } #endif -- 2.7.4