[PATCH v2 2/2] powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Add support for 1G huge pages

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 16 20:27:56 AEST 2017


On 05/16/2017 02:47 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> 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 at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Sounds good.

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com>



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