powerpc/powernv: Increase memory block size to 1GB on radix
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri Oct 6 22:10:04 AEDT 2017
On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 05:05:51 UTC, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
>
> Memory hot unplug on PowerNV radix hosts is broken. Our memory block
> size is 256MB but since we map the linear region with very large pages,
> each pte we tear down maps 1GB.
>
> A hot unplug of one 256MB memory block results in 768MB of memory
> getting unintentionally unmapped. At this point we are likely to oops.
>
> Fix this by increasing our memory block size to 1GB on PowerNV radix
> hosts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/53ecde0b9126ff140abe3aefd7f0ec
cheers
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