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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 2/2] powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Add support for 1G huge pages
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On Thursday 18 May 2017 02:17 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> "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?
>

None of that is supported w.r.t runtime allocation of hugepages. ie, we
cannot echo nr_hugepages w.r.t them. For 16GB i am not sure it make
sense, because we will rarely get such large contiguous region. W.r.t
page size supported for Book3E, may be we can. But I don't have a
facility to test those. Hence didn't include that.

-aneesh

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