[PATCH kernel] powerpc: Bump minimum zone order for 4K system page size

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Fri Sep 23 14:51:03 AEST 2016


The moderm kernel on powernv platform cannot possibly boot with values
less than 12 as the default DMA window of 2GB requires
(2<<30)/4096 TCEs which is 4MB of contiguous memory, log2(4M) == 22
so anything less than 12 won't work.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik at ozlabs.ru>
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I am hitting this when switching the system page size from 64K to 4K and
back. When I switch to 64K, zone order is set to 9 by default and
it does not change when I switch to 4K as 9 is still within the limits.
And there are other folks complaining about this too.
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 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 927d2ab..3516f16 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
 	int "Maximum zone order"
 	range 8 9 if PPC64 && PPC_64K_PAGES
 	default "9" if PPC64 && PPC_64K_PAGES
-	range 9 13 if PPC64 && !PPC_64K_PAGES
+	range 12 13 if PPC64 && !PPC_64K_PAGES
 	default "13" if PPC64 && !PPC_64K_PAGES
 	range 9 64 if PPC32 && PPC_16K_PAGES
 	default "9" if PPC32 && PPC_16K_PAGES
-- 
2.5.0.rc3



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