Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 5 authors, 2019-03-15

Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] hugetlb: allow to free gigantic pages regardless of the configuration

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2019-03-14 02:53:31
Also in: linux-mm, linux-s390, linux-sh, linuxppc-dev, lkml, sparclinux

[ Cc += Aneesh ]

Alexandre Ghiti [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
index 5b0177733994..d04a0bcc2f1c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h
@@ -32,13 +32,6 @@ static inline int hstate_get_psize(struct hstate *hstate)
 	}
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
-static inline bool gigantic_page_supported(void)
-{
-	return true;
-}
-#endif
This is going to clash with:

  https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1047003/

Which does:
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@  static inline int hstate_get_psize(struct hstate *hstate)
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
 static inline bool gigantic_page_supported(void)
 {
+	/*
+	 * We used gigantic page reservation with hypervisor assist in some case.
+	 * We cannot use runtime allocation of gigantic pages in those platforms
+	 * This is hash translation mode LPARs.
+	 */
+	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR) && !radix_enabled())
+		return false;
 	return true;
 }
 #endif

Not sure how to resolve it.

cheers

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