Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64s: Support shrinking the SLB for debugging

2019-01-23 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Michael Ellerman writes: > On machines with 1TB segments and a 32-entry SLB it's quite hard to > cause sufficient SLB pressure to trigger bugs caused due to badly > timed SLB faults. > > We have seen this in the past and a few years ago added the > disable_1tb_segments command line option to forc

Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64s: Support shrinking the SLB for debugging

2019-01-23 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Michael Ellerman's on January 19, 2019 8:27 pm: > Michal Suchánek writes: > >> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:13:28 +1100 >> Michael Ellerman wrote: >> >>> On machines with 1TB segments and a 32-entry SLB it's quite hard to >>> cause sufficient SLB pressure to trigger bugs caused due to badly >>> timed

Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64s: Support shrinking the SLB for debugging

2019-01-19 Thread Michael Ellerman
Michal Suchánek writes: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:13:28 +1100 > Michael Ellerman wrote: > >> On machines with 1TB segments and a 32-entry SLB it's quite hard to >> cause sufficient SLB pressure to trigger bugs caused due to badly >> timed SLB faults. >> >> We have seen this in the past and a few

Re: [PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64s: Support shrinking the SLB for debugging

2019-01-18 Thread Michal Suchánek
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:13:28 +1100 Michael Ellerman wrote: > On machines with 1TB segments and a 32-entry SLB it's quite hard to > cause sufficient SLB pressure to trigger bugs caused due to badly > timed SLB faults. > > We have seen this in the past and a few years ago added the > disable_1tb_s

[PATCH 4/4] powerpc/64s: Support shrinking the SLB for debugging

2019-01-17 Thread Michael Ellerman
On machines with 1TB segments and a 32-entry SLB it's quite hard to cause sufficient SLB pressure to trigger bugs caused due to badly timed SLB faults. We have seen this in the past and a few years ago added the disable_1tb_segments command line option to force the use of 256MB segments. However e