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SubjectRe: powerpc/prom: Increase RMA size to 512MB
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On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 04:03:49 UTC, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> >From 3ae8d1ed31b01b92b172fe20e4560cfbfab135ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: root <root@furatripa-lp2.aus.stglabs.ibm.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 19:43:14 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/prom: Increase RMA size to 512MB
>
> When booting very large systems with a large initrd, we run out of
> space for either the RTAS or the flattened device tree (FDT). Boot
> fails with messages like:
>
> Could not allocate memory for RTAS
> or
> No memory for flatten_device_tree (no room)
>
> Increasing the minimum RMA size to 512MB fixes the problem. This
> should not have an impact on smaller LPARs (with 256MB memory),
> as the firmware will cap the RMA to the memory assigned to the LPAR.
>
> Fix is based on input/discussions with Michael Ellerman. Thanks to
> Praveen K. Pandey for testing on a large system.
>
> Reported-by: Praveen K. Pandey <preveen.pandey@in.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/687da8fce1682c9f1e87530e731189

cheers

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