victora <vict...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > Hi Alistair/Jeremy, > > I am working on a bug related to 1M hugepage size being registered on > Linux (Power 8 Baremetal - Garrison).
Wasn't that caused by a firmware bug? > I was checking dmesg and it seems that 1M page size is coming from > firmware to Linux. > > [ 0.000000] base_shift=20: shift=20, sllp=0x0130, avpnm=0x00000000, > tlbiel=0, penc=2 > [ 1.528867] HugeTLB registered 1 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages > > Should Linux support this page size? Does it work? :) The user manual says it's a supported size, but I thought it didn't work (in hardware) for some reason. cheers
