[PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/mm: Change the swap encoding in pte.
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jun 18 14:16:00 AEST 2015
On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 16:14 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 19:45 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 08:21 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Scott,
> > >
> > > > Current swap encoding in pte can't support large pfns
> > > > above 4TB. Change the swap encoding such that we put
> > > > the swap type in the PTE bits. Also add build checks
> > > > to make sure we don't overlap with HPTEFLAGS.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Can you please review this w.r.t 64bit booke ?
>
> It looks OK.
>
> I'm curious why _PAGE_BIT_SWAP_TYPE is 2 -- it seems like it could be
> any value >= 1 that isn't large enough to cause a conflict. Does
> something get stored in that second bit?
>
> > I booted it on our p5020ds FWIW.
>
> Actively using swap?
Yeah good point, it wasn't.
I ran 4 make -j kernel builds in parallel which seemed to do the trick:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4053952 4038324 15628 344 2880 26932
-/+ buffers/cache: 4008512 45440
Swap: 7918588 6102800 1815788
Of course it went OOM not long after that, but it's still pinging and it's
running fine, just spending all its time printing the OOM kill info to the
console.
cheers
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