Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-25 Thread Michael Ellerman
victora writes: > Em 2017-06-22 00:59, Michael Ellerman escreveu: >> >> We merged a patch from Aneesh to filter it out in 4.12-rc1: >> >> a525108cf1cc ("powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Filter out hugepage size not >> supported by page table layout") >> >> I guess we should probably send that patch to sta

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-23 Thread victora
Em 2017-06-22 00:59, Michael Ellerman escreveu: Hi Victor, Someone refreshed my memory on this, coffee was involved ... victora writes: Hi Alistair/Jeremy, I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison). On those machines the

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-22 Thread Michael Ellerman
Michal Suchánek writes: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:47:47 -0300 > victora wrote: > >> Hi Alistair/Jeremy, >> >> I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on >> Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison). >> >> I was checking dmesg

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-22 Thread Michael Ellerman
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 13:59 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> It's unsupported in Linux because it doesn't match the page table >> geometry. >> >> We merged a patch from Aneesh to filter it out in 4.12-rc1: >> >>   a525108cf1cc ("powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Filter out h

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-22 Thread Michal Suchánek
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 10:47:47 -0300 victora wrote: > Hi Alistair/Jeremy, > > I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on > Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison). > > I was checking dmesg and it seems that 1M page size is coming from &

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-22 Thread Balbir Singh
On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 12:32 -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote: > On 06/21/2017 07:33 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on > > > Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison). > > Wasn't that caused by

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2017-06-21 at 20:33 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > victora writes: > > > Hi Alistair/Jeremy, > > > > I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on > > Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison). > > Wasn't that caused by a

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 13:59 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > It's unsupported in Linux because it doesn't match the page table > geometry. > > We merged a patch from Aneesh to filter it out in 4.12-rc1: > >   a525108cf1cc ("powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Filter out hugepage size not supported > by page tab

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-21 Thread Michael Ellerman
Hi Victor, Someone refreshed my memory on this, coffee was involved ... victora writes: > Hi Alistair/Jeremy, > > I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on > Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison). On those machines the property in the device tree comes s

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-21 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
On 06/21/2017 07:33 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote: I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison). Wasn't that caused by a firmware bug? Ben/Stewart, does that ring a bell, something new, intended or not? :- ) Thanks,

Re: 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-21 Thread Michael Ellerman
victora writes: > Hi Alistair/Jeremy, > > I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on > Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison). Wasn't that caused by a firmware bug? > I was checking dmesg and it seems that 1M page size is coming from

1M hugepage size being registered on Linux

2017-06-20 Thread victora
Hi Alistair/Jeremy, I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison). I was checking dmesg and it seems that 1M page size is coming from firmware to Linux. [0.00] base_shift=20: shift=20, sllp=0x0130, avpnm=0x