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    powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Filter out hugepage size not supported by page table layout · a525108c
    Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
    Without this if firmware reports 1MB page size support we will crash
    trying to use 1MB as hugetlb page size.
    
    echo 300 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1024kB/nr_hugepages
    
    kernel BUG at ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h:19!
    .....
    ....
    [c0000000e2c27b30] c00000000029dae8 .hugetlb_fault+0x638/0xda0
    [c0000000e2c27c30] c00000000026fb64 .handle_mm_fault+0x844/0x1d70
    [c0000000e2c27d70] c00000000004805c .do_page_fault+0x3dc/0x7c0
    [c0000000e2c27e30] c00000000000ac98 handle_page_fault+0x10/0x30
    
    With fix, we don't enable 1MB as hugepage size.
    
    bash-4.2# cd /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/
    bash-4.2# ls
    hugepages-16384kB  hugepages-16777216kB
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    a525108c
hugetlbpage.c 26 KB