[Skiboot] [PATCH] v4 mambo: Advertise available RADIX page sizes

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Oct 17 10:47:41 AEDT 2016


Chris Smart <chris at distroguy.com> writes:
> This adds a device tree entry which advertises additional support for 2M
> and 1G pages in a PAPR compliant manner. Without this, the kernel will
> default to only 4K and 64K page sizes.
>
> With this patch, 1G (0x40000000) pages for linear mapping will be used.
> This can be seen by when checking the output of "Mapping range" in the
> kernel log:
>
>  # dmesg |grep "Mapping range"
>  Mapping range 0x0 - 0x100000000 with 0x40000000
>
> Without this patch, the kernel will use 64K (0x10000) instead:
>
>  # dmesg |grep "Mapping range"
>  Mapping range 0x0 - 0x100000000 with 0x10000
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Smart <chris at distroguy.com>

Thanks, merged to master as of 82b5bbd5824b3bfce75868f988011887b012b44f

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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