> On a box with 8TB of RAM the MMU hashtable is 64GB in size. That > means we have 4G PTEs. pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear was using a signed > int to store the index which will overflow at 2G.
Wow, I hear... "Anton Blanchard's machine has more memory in it's MMU than you have in total". Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mi...@neuling.org> > > Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org> > Cc: <sta...@kernel.org> > --- > > Index: linux-powerpc/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-powerpc.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c 2011-07-27 13:5 0:18.408091576 +1000 > +++ linux-powerpc/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c 2011-07-27 13:5 1:19.359196131 +1000 > @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ static void pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear(voi > unsigned long ptel; > } ptes[4]; > long lpar_rc; > - int i, j; > + unsigned long i, j; > > /* Read in batches of 4, > * invalidate only valid entries not in the VRMA > _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
