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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 2/2] powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Add support for 1G huge pages
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"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> On Thursday 18 May 2017 10:51 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>
>>> POWER9 supports hugepages of size 2M and 1G in radix MMU mode. This patch
>>> enables the usage of 1G page size for hugetlbfs. This also update the helper
>>> such we can do 1G page allocation at runtime.
>>>
>>> We still don't enable 1G page size on DD1 version. This is to avoid doing
>>> workaround mentioned in commit: 6d3a0379ebdc8 (powerpc/mm: Add
>>> radix__tlb_flush_pte_p9_dd1()
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hugetlb.h | 10 ++++++++++
>>> arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 7 +++++--
>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 1 +
>>> 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> I think this patch is OK, but it's very confusing because it doesn't
>> mention that it's only talking about *generic* gigantic page support.
>
> What you mean by generic gigantic page ? what is supported here is the
> gigantic page with size 1G alone ?

What about 16G pages on pseries.

And all the other gigantic page sizes that Book3E supports?

cheers

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