On 15.11.25 10:37, Christophe Leroy wrote:
Le 14/11/2025 à 22:49, David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) a écrit :In the past, CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE indicated that we support runtime allocation of gigantic hugetlb folios. In the meantime it evolved into a generic way for the architecture to state that it supports gigantic hugetlb folios. In commit fae7d834c43c ("mm: add __dump_folio()") we started using CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE to decide MAX_FOLIO_ORDER: whether we could have folios larger than what the buddy can handle. In the context of that commit, we started using MAX_FOLIO_ORDER to detect page corruptions when dumping tail pages of folios. Before that commit, we assumed that we cannot have folios larger than the highest buddy order, which was obviously wrong. In commit 7b4f21f5e038 ("mm/hugetlb: check for unreasonable folio sizes when registering hstate"), we used MAX_FOLIO_ORDER to detect inconsistencies, and in fact, we found some now. Powerpc allows for configs that can allocate gigantic folio during boot (not at runtime), that do not set CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE and can exceed PUD_ORDER. To fix it, let's make powerpc select CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE with hugetlb on powerpc, and increase the maximum folio size with hugetlb to 16 GiB on 64bit (possible on arm64 and powerpc) and 1 GiB on 32 bit (powerpc). Note that on some powerpc configurations, whether we actually have gigantic pages depends on the setting of CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER, but there is nothing really problematic about setting it unconditionally: we just try to keep the value small so we can better detect problems in __dump_folio() and inconsistencies around the expected largest folio in the system. Ideally, we'd have a better way to obtain the maximum hugetlb folio size and detect ourselves whether we really end up with gigantic folios. Let's defer bigger changes and fix the warnings first. While at it, handle gigantic DAX folios more clearly: DAX can only end up creating gigantic folios with HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD. Add a new Kconfig option HAVE_GIGANTIC_FOLIOS to make both cases clearer. In particular, worry about ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE only with HUGETLB_PAGE. Note: with enabling CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE on powerpc, we will now also allow for runtime allocations of folios in some more powerpc configs. I don't think this is a problem, but if it is we could handle it through __HAVE_ARCH_GIGANTIC_PAGE_RUNTIME_SUPPORTED.Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]> Tested on powerpc 8xx with CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER=8 instead of 9. It is now possible to add hugepages with the following command: echo 4 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-8192kB/nr_hugepages But only if CONFIG_CMA is set. Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]>
Thanks a lot for the review and test! (thanks to the other reviewers obviously as well :) ) -- Cheers David
