[PATCH] powerpc/mm/book3s64: Skip 16G page reservation with radix

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri Jun 26 14:45:50 AEST 2020


On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:10:19 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> With hash translation, the hypervisor can hint the LPAR about 16GB contiguous range
> via ibm,expected#pages. The kernel marks the range specified in the device tree
> as reserved. Avoid doing this when using radix translation. Radix translation
> only supports 1G gigantic hugepage and kernel can do the 1G gigantic hugepage
> allocation via early memblock reservation. This can be done because with radix
> translation pages are not required to be contiguous on the host.

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc/mm/book3s64: Skip 16G page reservation with radix
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/86590e524ee834b629afc55d8e5786091fbf84cc

cheers


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