From: Avnish Chouhan <avn...@linux.ibm.com> Change RMA size from 512 MB to 768 MB which will result in more RMA at boot time for PowerPC. When PowerPC LPAR use/uses vTPM, Secure Boot or FADump, the 512 MB RMA memory is not sufficient for booting. With this 512 MB RMA, GRUB2 run out of memory and unable to load the necessary. Sometimes even usage of CDROM which requires more memory for installation along with the options mentioned above troubles the boot memory and result in boot failures. Increasing the RMA size will resolves multiple out of memory issues observed in PowerPC.
Failure details: 1. GRUB2 kern/ieee1275/init.c:550: mm requested region of size 8513000, flags 1 kern/ieee1275/init.c:563: Cannot satisfy allocation and retain minimum runtime space kern/ieee1275/init.c:550: mm requested region of size 8513000, flags 0 kern/ieee1275/init.c:563: Cannot satisfy allocation and retain minimum runtime space kern/file.c:215: Closing `/ppc/ppc64/initrd.img' ... kern/disk.c:297: Closing `ieee1275//vdevice/v-scsi @30000067/disk@8300000000000000'... kern/disk.c:311: Closing `ieee1275//vdevice/v-scsi @30000067/disk@8300000000000000' succeeded. kern/file.c:225: Closing `/ppc/ppc64/initrd.img' failed with 3. kern/file.c:148: Opening `/ppc/ppc64/initrd.img' succeeded. error: ../../grub-core/kern/mm.c:552:out of memory. 2. Kernel [ 0.777633] List of all partitions: [ 0.777639] No filesystem could mount root, tried: [ 0.777640] [ 0.777649] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on "" or unknown-block(0,0) [ 0.777658] CPU: 17 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.11.0-0.rc4.20.el10.ppc64le #1 [ 0.777669] Hardware name: IBM,9009-22A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW950.B0 (VL950_149) hv:phyp pSeries [ 0.777678] Call Trace: [ 0.777682] [c000000003db7b60] [c000000001119714] dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xc4 (unreliable) [ 0.777700] [c000000003db7b90] [c00000000016c274] panic+0x174/0x460 [ 0.777711] [c000000003db7c30] [c00000000200631c] mount_root_generic+0x320/0x354 [ 0.777724] [c000000003db7d00] [c0000000020066f8] prepare_namespace+0x27c/0x2f4 [ 0.777735] [c000000003db7d90] [c000000002005824] kernel_init_freeable+0x254/0x294 [ 0.777747] [c000000003db7df0] [c00000000001131c] kernel_init+0x30/0x1c4 [ 0.777757] [c000000003db7e50] [c00000000000debc] ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c [ 0.777768] --- interrupt: 0 at 0x0 [ 0.784238] pstore: backend (nvram) writing error (-1) [ 0.790447] Rebooting in 10 seconds.. Cc: Brian King <brk...@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbath...@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <ma...@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Meghana Prakash <meghanaprak...@in.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mah...@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhj...@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avnish Chouhan <avn...@linux.ibm.com> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/prom.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/prom.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/prom.h index b4e504b914e4..f679a11a7e7f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/prom.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/prom.h @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ struct device_node; struct property; -#define MIN_RMA 512 /* Minimum RMA (in MB) for CAS negotiation */ +#define MIN_RMA 768 /* Minimum RMA (in MB) for CAS negotiation */ #define OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE 0x1 /* Start of node, full name */ #define OF_DT_END_NODE 0x2 /* End node */ -- 2.48.1
