[RFC PATCH 7/7] powerpc/hugetlb: Enable hugetlb migration for ppc64

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Apr 7 22:26:35 AEST 2017


On 04/04/2017 07:34 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> index 382c3dd86d6d..c0ca27521679 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> @@ -350,6 +350,11 @@ config PPC_RADIX_MMU
>  	  is only implemented by IBM Power9 CPUs, if you don't have one of them
>  	  you can probably disable this.
> 
> +config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
> +	def_bool y
> +	depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRATION
> +

I have tested this patch series both for anon and file mapping
on a POWER8 box with 16MB pages. Will try to test it for 16GB
pages on a PVM system.





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